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Charlie Sheen is heading back to a regular sitcom lead, and his real-life father will be sharing the screen with him. Charlie and Martin Sheen will play father and son in Happy Jack, a new half-hour comedy ordered for AMC and AMC+. The six-episode first season is scheduled to begin production in Los Angeles in early 2027 ahead of a premiere later that year. PEOPLE reported that the show will film before a live studio audience at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, putting Charlie back into the multicamera format that defined much of his television career. Charlie plays Jack Chambers, a lifelong underachiever with two grown daughters who turned out well despite their father’s shortcomings. Martin plays Jack’s father, whom AMC says deserves considerably more credit for how the women were raised. “It’s no secret that it’s been a minute, and I’m thrilled to be going back on television in such a meaningful way in an equally wonderful show,” Charlie said in AMC’s announcement. He added that “the crew has reassembled,” a reference that carries extra weight because several members of the creative team previously worked with him on Two and a Half Men. Jack’s Daughter Brings Home a Boyfriend His Own Age View this post on Instagram A post shared by People Magazine (@people) The family conflict begins with Jack’s two daughters, Kate and Sam. Kate runs her father’s company and helps keep his life functioning, while AMC describes Sam as the “wild child” who takes more after Jack. The situation changes when Sam comes home with Paul, a former investment banker who has abandoned that career to become a van-life guru. Jack is stunned to discover that his daughter’s new boyfriend is the same age he is, forcing him to confront just how detached he has remained from his daughters’ adult lives. TheWrap reported that the official logline ultimately frames Jack’s dilemma as a choice between continuing to put himself first or treating the disruption as a final opportunity to become an active part of his daughters’ lives. ‘Two and a Half Men’ Veterans Are Running the Series Happy Jack reunites Charlie with writers Jim Patterson and Matt Ross, who will write, executive produce and serve as co-showrunners. Both previously worked on Two and a Half Men, and the pair later collaborated on another multicamera comedy, Netflix’s The Ranch. Charlie is also an executive producer alongside Todd Christopher, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, Jason Wang and 20th Television. TheWrap reports that the series is produced by AMC Studios and will shoot in front of a live audience on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. The format brings Charlie back to familiar territory after more than a decade without a regular sitcom lead. PEOPLE notes that his last starring sitcom was FX’s Anger Management, which ran for 100 episodes from 2012 through 2014. Charlie and Martin Have Played Father and Son Before The fictional relationship in Happy Jack continues a screen history that stretches back nearly four decades. Martin played the father of Charlie’s ambitious stockbroker Bud Fox in Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street. They repeated that father-son setup on television years later. CBS News reported in 2012 that Martin had been cast as the father of Charlie’s character on Anger Management, with Charlie saying at the time that the characters would have a complicated relationship. CBS also noted that Wall Street had previously paired them as father and son. : Martin has also appeared with his son on Spin City and Two and a Half Men, but Happy Jack gives the two actors something different. They are being introduced together from the outset as the central father-son pairing instead of Martin entering a series that Charlie was already leading. AMC Is Moving Into Traditional Multicamera Sitcom Territory The production style also makes Happy Jack unusual for AMC. The Hollywood Reporter describes it as the network’s first multicamera comedy, a format more closely associated with broadcast sitcoms than the dramas and single-camera series that have traditionally defined AMC’s scripted lineup. AMC Studios president and AMC Global Media chief content officer Dan McDermott said the project is “definitely something new for AMC.” McDermott also has his own history with Charlie, having worked with him during the actor’s Spin City years before later moving into executive leadership. AMC plans to present Happy Jack to international buyers at MIPCOM in October before production begins in early 2027. The network has announced a 2027 debut on both AMC and AMC+, but no exact premiere date has been set.

The bike park along the slopes of Mount Werner at Steamboat Ski Resort will close Oct. 4, according to a release by Steamboat Ski Resort The park will only be open Friday through Sunday before closing, the release explained Crews are working in several areas of the mountain, according to Routt County dated Sept. 8. Impacts may include resort teams working on snowmaking systems — which could impact some trails — and the new water ramp and trampoline training facility at bottom of the Park Smalley Freestyle Complex, said the resort. Construction work on The Stockman has closed the trails of Right-O-Way for the summer, Lower Zig Zag has been rerouted onto the lower section of Lasso and changed to an uphill and downhill trail. The new half-pipe at Bashor Bowl is also rerouting some trails, according to the resort’s website. Impacts are subject to daily change. The resort is asking cyclists to follow all signage, closures, and crew direction at all times.

The peoples of Arda suggest that walking becomes spiritually meaningful through the quality of our relationship with what we encounter: the ground beneath us, the lives beside us, the histories around us, and the people sharing our road. A familiar route can become an ongoing acquaintance with a place. This fits Tolkien’s idea of Recovery in “On Fairy-stories”: renewed perception of things that familiarity has made difficult to see. In our modern hectic daily lives walking could become a practice of attunement—allowing our attention, conduct, and affection to become more responsive to the world. While Tolkien did not prescribe walking meditations for each people or exactly how they would view such things, it is possible for the scholar of his material to speculate on such topics. Allowing for creative license the practices below are contemporary spiritual adaptations grounded in their literary compatible characteristics, rather than reconstructed canonical rites. Hobbits For Hobbits, a walk would cultivate belonging. Their appreciation of gardens, meals, familiar paths, and neighborly life suggests a spirituality grounded in the particulars of home. Tolkien’s letter to Milton Waldman associates Hobbits with closeness to soil and living things, and gives the seemingly small deeds of ordinary people a central moral significance. In nature, a Hobbit-inspired walker would notice what is growing, which berries are ripening, where rain has softened the path, and how the season is changing. Returning regularly would matter: a place becomes beloved through acquaintance. In a town, the same attention might embrace a tended window box, the smell of bread, a neighbor’s elderly dog, or a bench where people gather. Greeting someone, supporting a small bakery, or carrying home a little litter makes the walk part of the neighborhood’s well-being. The contemplative question is: What here sustains life, and how might I help sustain it? The spiritual depth lies in gratitude becoming participation. Even a walk to buy milk can express membership in a living community. Elves For Elves, a walk would cultivate attentive delight and remembrance. A particularly revealing moment occurs in “Lothlórien,” when Frodo experiences a living tree with a freshness that exceeds its usefulness. Tolkien’s nature writing highlights this capacity to encounter other beings as having significance of their own. An Elven-inspired practice would begin with lingering over one actual thing: the branching of a beech, the changing color of water, or the sound of wind passing through different leaves. Learn its ordinary name and something of its life. Knowledge can deepen wonder. In a city, attend to the meeting of growing and crafted beauty: ivy beside stonework, a tree reflected in glass, carved leaves above a doorway, evening light beneath a bridge. An Elven appreciation can include architecture, language, and skilled making as well as woodland. Remembrance adds another dimension. Revisit a particular tree through the year. Remember its bare branches in winter or the spring time when it is in leaf. Let your understanding contain more than the present moment. The question becomes: What is this place showing me that I have been too hurried to receive? Telerins A Telerin emphasis would give special attention to water, listening, and longing. The maritime Teleri of Aman offer the clearest literary foundation here; the wider Telerin peoples have more varied histories and habitats. Beside a river or shore, listen to the distinct sounds water makes against stone, banks, reeds, and boats. Allow the pauses in your own thoughts to lengthen without trying to manufacture an experience. Within your devotional framework, this could accompany a quiet petition to Ulmo for greater receptivity and understanding. An urban version might follow rain across roofs, gutters, and puddles, then consider the larger watershed to which it belongs. A walk beside your local river, could hold both the river’s living presence and the human histories of its banks. The movement toward the sea can become an image for connection: your immediate surroundings belong to a world larger than the portion you can see. This is a contemplative reading of water, without requiring every ripple to carry a personal message. Dwarves For Dwarves, walking would cultivate reverence for substance, endurance, and workmanship. Gimli’s description of the Glittering Caves in “The Road to Isengard” offers an especially useful corrective to reducing Dwarves to acquisitiveness. He imagines patient, careful work that preserves and reveals beauty. In nature, attend to exposed rock, grain, mineral color, weathering, and the weight of the landscape. Consider the immense duration represented by a stone you can pass in a second. In a city, look closely at masonry, stairs, ironwork, bridges, and repaired walls. Ask how they were made, whose labor they required, and whether they serve people well. A worn threshold becomes evidence of generations of arrival and departure. A spiritually engaged walk might lead you to learn about local building stone or appreciate a repair you previously overlooked. Devotion to Aulë could find expression in respect for materials and the people who work them. The question is: What care has given this its form, and what care will allow it to endure? Men For Men, walking would cultivate responsibility within a passing lifetime. Tolkien’s human peoples are diverse, but the Dúnedain particularly suggest a union of memory, watchfulness, and service. Aragorn’s relationship with the lands he traverses includes knowledge of their histories and concern for those living there. A walk in nature could become an exercise in responsible presence: noticing the condition of a path, leaving a gate as it should be, or learning how a place is cared for. In town, the field of attention includes other people. Make room for someone moving slowly. Notice the labor that keeps streets usable. Read a memorial and consider the individual lives behind its names. Mortality gives this practice its gravity. You have a limited number of days in which to become a good neighbor. The question is: Given the time and strength available to me today, what good can I contribute along this road? Ents For Ents, walking would cultivate patience and sustained acquaintance. In “Treebeard,” names, stories, and living identity unfold across long periods. That suggests a practice of returning often enough to discover how inadequate a first impression can be. Choose one small stretch of woodland, one park, or even one street tree. Observe it across weeks and seasons. Notice its companions: moss, birds, insects, nearby plants, and people who rest beneath it. Urban patience is particularly valuable. A tree growing in a restricted pavement opening has a specific situation worth understanding. Learning about that situation—and supporting its care can give your affection practical depth. The question is: What could I understand here only by returning? These approaches can share a single ordinary walk. A ten-minute journey might include Hobbit gratitude for a familiar shop, Elven attention to light, Dwarven appreciation of a stone bridge, human courtesy toward another walker, and Entish recognition of a tree you have come to know. To make this a repeatable practice: Before leaving, choose one quality: gratitude, listening, remembrance, craftsmanship, service, or patience. During the walk, give one encounter your full attention. Let its actual details guide your reflection. Make one fitting response: appreciation, learning, courtesy, care, or a quiet devotional petition. On returning, remember one specific thing. Over time, these memories become a personal history of relationship with the place. There is room here for sorrow as well as beauty. A damaged tree or neglected street may call forth grief, repair, or advocacy. Re-enchantment can deepen our awareness of what needs tending. For those in a Tolkien spiritual framework, the Music of Creation provides a meaningful image for the implementation of discipline based on listening: learning to hear the other lives already present, and allowing your own small contribution to become more considerate. The walk becomes a daily opportunity to practice that relationship. Valar to Call Upon Yavanna, Manwë, and Oromë would be especially fitting for an everyday walk. Ulmo will be particularly meaningful for those who approach Tolkien’s material from a Telerin orientation. Other Valar suit walks devoted to rest, remembrance, beauty, or renewed hope. Tolkien supplies their characters and associations; applying these to a modern walking devotion is our spiritual adaptation. Vala Why they fit How the walk could express that relationship Yavanna Cares for growing and living things. Attend to trees, moss, gardens, and small lives. Ask for deeper affection and greater care for whatever grows along your route. Particularly fitting when you want to feel more connected to a place. Manwë Winds, air, clouds, and birds. Notice the sky and the movement of air, including between buildings. Ask for clarity, spaciousness of mind, and the ability to look beyond immediate preoccupations. Oromë Love of forests and the lands of Middle-earth; courage against threatening evil. Walk with alertness and respect for your surroundings. Ask for courage, sound attention, and a willingness to become acquainted with unfamiliar paths. Ulmo Waters throughout Arda and concern for its inhabitants. Listen beside rivers, lochs, fountains, or the sea. Ask for receptivity and compassionate attention. Let water draw your awareness toward the connections between places and lives. Varda Stars, light, and the Elves’ reverent invocation. Especially fitting for evening walks. Look upward and ask for renewed wonder and steadfast hope, even when only a little sky is visible. Aulë Earth’s substances and skilled making. Notice stone, bridges, ironwork, buildings, and repairs. Ask to recognize the dignity of good workmanship and the responsibility involved in shaping a shared world. For a walk intended to restore your spirit, Estë and Nienna offer different kinds of companionship. Estë’s association with rest and the healing of weariness suggests a gentle walk with permission to pause. Nienna’s sorrow teaches pity and endurance in hope; she is particularly fitting when grief accompanies you, or when encountering suffering in your neighborhood. These associations are explicit in Tolkien’s account, while their use as walking devotions is interpretive. With Estë, you might ask for the wisdom to recognize your limits and receive ordinary refreshment. With Nienna, you might ask to remain compassionate without becoming overwhelmed. A quiet park bench can belong to the practice as fully as the path itself. Vána and Nessa would be lovely choices when you want walking to recover joy. Tolkien associates Vána with flowers and birds, and Nessa with running and dancing. A devotional adaptation could therefore invite: Vána: freshness of perception—taking pleasure in blossom, birdsong, color, and small beginnings. Nessa: delight in movement—enjoying your own comfortable rhythm, whatever your pace or physical capacity. Vairë could accompany a walk of remembrance. Her weaving of events into storied tapestries offers a foundation for reflecting on local history, family memories, and the lives that have shaped a street. Irmo, as master of dreams and visions, could suit a quiet walk that gives imagination room to unfold. These are thematic extensions of their literary roles, rather than walking practices Tolkien describes. I would begin with a small pairing appropriate to the day: An ordinary neighborhood walk: Manwë and Yavanna—sky above, living things nearby. A Telerin walk beside water: Ulmo and Manwë—listening, water, wind, and a wider horizon. A woodland walk: Yavanna and Oromë—affection for the forest joined with attentive presence. An urban walk: Aulë and Yavanna—human making and growing life sharing one place. A walk during sorrow or exhaustion: Nienna and Estë—compassion and rest. An evening walk: Varda—wonder and hope. No matter who you choose to call upon as you start to transform your daily walks into something spiritual and re-enchanted, the important part is simply in getting out there and participating. For those who are not on a Tolkien based path feel free to call upon your own deity or land spirits that you have formed a bond with or seek to form friendships during these walks. As you journey across the many pathways found in Arda. This petition can be spoken before leaving or during a quiet pause. Replace [Name or sacred address] with your chosen Vala, deity, or other form of sacred address, and [quality] with what you hope to cultivate—such as compassion, clarity, wonder, courage, or peace. [Name or sacred address], I turn toward you as I begin this walk. Please accompany me according to your wisdom, and help me become receptive to [quality]. Open my attention to the world I am entering: the earth beneath the path, the sky above the rooftops, the lives unfolding beside my own. Help me meet this place with humility. Teach me to notice its beauty, to honor its history, and to recognize what needs care. Where my thoughts are hurried, grant me patience. Where familiarity has dulled my senses, renew my wonder. Where I encounter sorrow, deepen my compassion. Where I encounter joy, help me receive it with gratitude. May I respect the lives and boundaries of others. May my presence be considerate, my actions helpful, and my passage gentle upon the places I visit. Guide me toward a fuller understanding of how I belong within this living world, and how I may contribute to its flourishing. As I return, help me carry this attention into my home and into the ordinary work of the day. For the companionship I receive, the beauty I discover, and the opportunity to walk with greater care, I offer my thanks. Monthly Correspondence — September Full Moon: Isilyavannië – Moon of Yavanna Valar: Yavanna Holiday: September 25-27 is the celebration of Enderi or the Middle Days. This is a very important festival celebrated by WAL and those who follow a Tolkien based spirituality. Looking Ahead — October In the coming month we will look at how to re-enchant our daily jobs considering how much time we spend each week in this endeavor. Look forward to seeing you then as we continue our journey to find A World – Re-Enchanted. About the Author The author is the President of Way of Arda’s Lore, a Tolkien-based spiritual organization legally recognized in the United States. He is a husband and father, a long-standing practitioner of esoteric traditions, and a Freemason of sixteen years affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Scottish Rite, and York Rite bodies. He is also the owner of Mystical Source, a metaphysical business dedicated to the creation of spiritually aligned tools and practices. His work is devoted to the restoration of meaning within daily life—to the recognition that the world, though diminished, is not without light.

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Quick Take Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane return as John and Ted in the first promo for Peacock’s cartoon spinoff TED: The Animated Series.TED: The Animated Series will debut at Peacock this December.Will TED: The Animated Series be as successful as the movies or live-action prequel series? Probably, kid. Kid, you ah not gonna believe this news. It’s, like, wicked good. Everyone’s favorite sentient teddy bear is returning to TV in a very different form. He’s going to be a cartoon. And the first teaser for TED: The Animated Series promises the show is going to enjoy the the unlimited freedom of animation. Earlier this year, Seth MacFarlane said that, despite being Peacock’s most-watched show ever, there were “no plans” for a third season of TED. But two months after that disappointing announcement fans got some good news. The franchise was not leaving the streaming site. It was going to get its own spinoff cartoon starring the cast of its big screen outings. Now we have both our first teaser trailer at the Ted animated series and a premiere date. A funny promo featuring Mark Wahlberg’s John and MacFarlane’s foul-mouthed bear revealed the series will debut on December 17. While that’s reason for viewers to celebrate, this promo is painful for John. Literally. It turns out that being a cartoon does not automatically spare you from terrible pain. What it does do is help keep you looking young despite taking place many years after your last big screen outing. Here’s the official synopsis from Peacock: Picking up twelve years after the conclusion of the last movie, John and his thunder-buddy Ted are neighbors, both with families of their own and dead-end jobs. Follow these two lovable stoners as they enable each other’s bad ideas about marriage, parenting and the challenges of adult life. Peacock TED: The Animated Series comes from MacFarlane, Paul Corrigan, and Brad Walsh. Corrigan and Walsh also serve as co-showrunners. Rough Draft Studios, Inc. handles the animation. The show also stars Amanda Seyfried as Sam, Jessica Barth as Tami-Lynn, Kyle Mooney as Apollo, and Liz Richman as Ruth. Is it gonna be wicked successful? Everything Ted touches is always successful, kid. But we’ll find out for sure soon enough. Mikey Walsh is a staff writer at Nerdist. You can follow Mikey on Bluesky at @‌burgermike. And also anywhere someone is ranking the Targaryen kings. The post TED: THE ANIMATED SERIES First Teaser Is Full of Cheeky Fun appeared first on Nerdist.

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has criticized the Centre for its recent communication to universities about courses. This communication followed an anonymous social media claim labeling books by B R Ambedkar and Jyotirao Phule as poison. Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being against social justice and discouraging critical thinking among students.

Jennifer Lawrence is heading into science fiction for Zach Cregger’s next original movie. The Oscar winner will lead The Flood, a new thriller from the filmmaker behind Barbarian, Weapons and this year’s Resident Evil. Cregger wrote the screenplay from his own original idea and will direct and produce the film for New Line Cinema. Amblin Entertainment is producing alongside Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Entertainment, and Warner Bros. has scheduled a theatrical release for August 11, 2028. The studio has not released a synopsis or identified Lawrence’s character. Cregger has previously described The Flood as science fiction rather than a conventional horror movie, saying it has disturbing material and horror scenes but is ultimately more cerebral and structurally ambitious than a straightforward scare vehicle. “Jennifer is one of a kind, and I’m beyond excited to see her in this role,” Cregger said in the casting announcement, according to TheWrap. Lawrence Is the First Star Announced for Cregger’s New Film Lawrence is the first major cast member publicly attached to The Flood, putting her at the center of a project that Warner Bros. film chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy described as Cregger’s “bold and wholly original vision.” The executives said they were eager to work with Cregger, Vertigo and Amblin again following their experience on Weapons. Entertainment Weekly independently confirmed Lawrence’s casting and the August 2028 release date. The outlet also reported that Steven Spielberg’s Amblin is producing with Lee and Yoon, while Amblin’s official site lists The Flood among its feature projects. Cregger Came Up With the Idea While Trying to Work With Spielberg Cregger has revealed more about how The Flood came together than about what actually happens in it. He told Deadline that the concept emerged during a brief window in which he was eager to create something he could make with Spielberg and gave himself roughly five days to find the right idea. According to Entertainment Weekly’s account of that interview, inspiration arrived while Cregger was watching another science-fiction movie with his wife and began thinking about what could make an abandoned-spacecraft scenario stranger and more frightening. He said the full movie suddenly seemed to appear in his mind, giving him the idea he had been searching for. Cregger has since described the finished concept in broader creative terms rather than revealing its mechanics. In interviews surrounding Resident Evil, he called The Flood “very cerebral” and “more sophisticated,” while telling TheWrap that it has his most bizarre narrative structure yet and is “a bit more of an adult movie” despite containing horror sequences. ‘The Flood’ Left Netflix After a Fight Over a Theatrical Release The film’s path to New Line began before Lawrence joined the cast. TheWrap reported in November 2025 that Cregger had written the project through Amblin’s relationship with Netflix but that development stalled because he wanted a firm theatrical commitment that the streamer had not provided. The project subsequently went into turnaround, and New Line picked it up earlier this year, according to The Hollywood Reporter. By April, Warner Bros. had already placed The Flood on its theatrical calendar for August 2028, and the current casting report says principal photography is due to begin in Europe during the opening months of 2027. That move also reunites Cregger with the studio behind Weapons. Lawrence Already Has Two Other Major Movies on Her Schedule View this post on Instagram A post shared by Leonardo DiCaprio (@leonardodicaprio) The Flood joins a busy stretch for Lawrence after Die My Love. She is also starring opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s What Happens at Night, which began production in the Czech Republic earlier this year with Apple Original Films. TheWrap reported that Lawrence and DiCaprio play a married American couple traveling to a snowy European town to adopt a baby. She is also returning as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which opens November 20, 2026.

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What just happened in the marijuana rescheduling hearing On September 28, 2026, three participants in the ALJ marijuana rescheduling hearing filed a “Joint Motion for Leave to File Supplemental Briefing, for Admission of Supplemental Exhibit, and for Stay of Proceedings.” The motion was submitted by DUID Victim Voices, Kenneth Finn, M.D., and the National Drug and Alcohol Association (collectively, the “Interested Parties”). The motion asks the ALJ to “allow the admission of the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (“GAO”) report entitled “Drug Scheduling: While DEA Decisions Have Aligned with Recent HHS Recommendations, Both Need Comprehensive Policies” (the GAO Report), published on September 23, 2026, into the record. . .”. It also “requests an additional briefing period on the contents of the GAO Report and how it impacts these proceedings, if at all.” Finally, the Interested Parties requested a brief stay while those issues are resolved. On September 29, the ALJ granted the stay. The order does not grant the request to admit the GAO Report or authorize supplemental briefing. Instead, it stays the proceeding while the ALJ considers those requests. Based on where we are in the ALJ hearing, the practical effect of the stay could be significant. We were at the end of this process, awaiting the ALJ’s certified recommendation to DEA as to the Schedule 3 rule. Instead, the Interested Parties asked the ALJ to “'hold its recommended decision and certification of the record’ if and until briefing is completed on the GAO Report.” The ALJ found sufficient merit to stay the proceeding while the motion is resolved. DEA has been ordered to respond no later than October 13, 2026. The remaining interested parties (those that participated in the ALJ hearing) may also file responses by that deadline. All of this means that a proceeding that appeared to be approaching its conclusion is now on hold. How long it remains on hold, and whether the GAO Report ultimately has any impact on the ALJ's recommendation, are entirely different questions. What is the GAO Report? On September 23, 2026, GAO published the GAO Report. I have not yet had time to read all 31 pages, but I have reviewed GAO’s summary and recommendations. The report basically concludes that both DEA and FDA have gaps in their policies and procedures governing controlled substance scheduling. GAO found that DEA lacks comprehensive policies identifying roles, responsibilities, and procedures for scheduling decisions. It similarly found that FDA lacks policies specifying how staff should conduct evaluations and develop scheduling recommendations. For DEA, GAO recommended that DEA “develop policies and procedures that identify DEA’s roles, responsibilities, and procedures for evaluating and scheduling substances through administrative scheduling, new drug application scheduling, temporary scheduling, and international treaty scheduling under relevant statutes.” For FDA, GAO recommended that FDA “develop policies and procedures that Center for Drug Evaluation and Research staff are to use to when completing eight-factor evaluations and developing scheduling recommendations, including the criteria and process for determining a substance's "potential for abuse," including abuse potential relative to other substances.” GAO made a third recommendation concerning the FDA and NIH memorandum of understanding governing drug scheduling recommendations, but I won’t get into that right now. One important point is that the GAO Report does not conclude that marijuana should remain in Schedule I or that Schedule II is more appropriate than Schedule III. Nor does it conclude that HHA or DEA's prior scheduling recommendations were incorrect. In fact, GAO found that DEA's final scheduling decisions aligned with HHS recommendations in all 84 applicable cases it reviewed for which DEA had published a final rule. The report identifies deficiencies in agency procedures. Whether those deficiencies have any meaningful bearing on the marijuana rescheduling proceeding remains to be seen. Why this ALJ proceeding matters so much Before discussing what the stay could mean, it is important to understand why I believe the outcome of this particular proceeding is so consequential for the cannabis industry. There are currently two separate paths that could result in marijuana being moved to Schedule III. One is the medical marijuana final order, which established a separate regulatory framework for certain state-licensed medical marijuana activities. The other is the ALJ proceeding, which concerns the broader rescheduling of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act. The separate medical marijuana Schedule III final order is already being challenged in the D.C. Circuit. As I have discussed many times before, I believe that order faces serious legal vulnerabilities and that it is more likely than not that the D.C. Circuit will overturn it. My concerns center on the statutory authority relied upon to issue the order and the procedural approach used to establish its regulatory framework. That leaves the ALJ proceeding as what I consider the industry's most important remaining opportunity to achieve Schedule III. There is an important distinction between the two approaches. A successful outcome in the ALJ rescheduling effort would not create or preserve the special regulatory framework created by the medical marijuana final order. State-licensed operators would not receive the same federal regulatory treatment contemplated under that separate framework merely because marijuana was moved to Schedule III. But broader rescheduling would still accomplish something enormously important. The immediate and primary benefit would be Section 280E relief. That alone makes this proceeding critically important, even though Schedule III would not resolve the numerous other federal legal problems facing state-licensed cannabis operators. As I believe the industry is facing the possibility that the medical marijuana order will be overturned, which leaves the ALJ proceeding as the remaining path to obtaining the tax relief associated with Schedule III. Which brings us back to the stay. What the stay could mean I have two main takeaways from this ruling, although I want to emphasize that the stay could ultimately mean very little. First, the ALJ recommendation is going to be delayed. We had been expecting the ALJ certified recommendation any day. Now, the proceeding is stayed pending resolution of the motion, and DEA has until October 13 to respond. If the ALJ denies the motion after reviewing the responses, the proceeding could resume relatively quickly. If supplemental briefing is allowed, however, the delay could extend well beyond October. Depending on the briefing schedule, I would not be surprised if the certified recommendation were pushed until after the midterm elections. That timing could matter. We do not know what the political landscape will look like after the midterms. Significant Republican losses could change the Administration's political priorities, its relationship with Congress, and its influence over agency actions. There is also the broader question of how much attention Trump will devote to marijuana rescheduling once the final midterm elections of his presidency are behind him. Will marijuana rescheduling remain something the Administration cares enough about to actively pursue? Or will DEA largely be left to run the process on its own? We saw what happened when the Biden Administration left DEA to control the administrative process. The result of that strategy is what lead us to where we are now with the ALJ. Of course, the midterms could have absolutely no effect on this proceeding. DEA may still have a mandate to publish a final rule moving marijuana into schedule III. And there is no reason to assume that the GAO will necessarily influence the ALJ's recommendation. My concern is that an extended delay introduces additional uncertainty into a process that has already experienced more than its share. This leads me to my second takeaway. I do not view the stay as a particularly encouraging development for Schedule III through the ALJ hearing process. But I also recognize that I may be reading too much into what is, at least for now, a procedural order. The ALJ has not admitted the GAO Report into evidence. He has not authorized supplemental briefing. He has not indicated that the report undermines HHS's recommendation or DEA’s proposed order. He has simply stayed the proceeding while deciding whether the report should become part of the record. In fact, the ALJ's explanation for the stay is relatively straightforward. The stay may simply reflect nothing more than an effort to preserve the integrity of the administrative record and avoid future procedural and judicial complications. The ALJ could deny the motion, lift the stay and issue the same recommendation he was already preparing to issue. Even if he allows supplemental briefing, there is no reason to assume that the additional submissions will change his ultimate recommendation. The GAO Report itself may also prove largely irrelevant to the substantive scheduling determination. Its focus is on agency policies and procedures, not on whether marijuana satisfies the statutory criteria for Schedule III. Nevertheless, given the history of this proceeding, I find it difficult to dismiss the development entirely. As I have discussed before (here and here), the structure of this hearing has concerned me from the beginning. Schedule III proponents, other than DEA, were absent from the hearing, while opponents were given the opportunity to build a record against rescheduling. For all of the industry experts who thought this was a foregone conclusion because the industry paid $11.5 million for rescheduling, I counter once again with a simple point: procedure matters. As I have said time and time again, I question why the Administration chose to proceed with the ALJ hearing at all if it believed there was another legally defensible path to achieving its stated objective. If the result was predetermined, why expose the process to additional procedural challenges? And why pursue a separate medical marijuana framework under 21 U.S.C. § 811(d)(1)--an approach I have been discussing for years--rather than focus on completing broader rescheduling? Instead, the Attorney General used § 811(d)(1) to create the separate medical marijuana framework, which is now being challenged in the D.C. Circuit, while DEA proceeded with an ALJ hearing in which the participating Interested Parties were opponents of rescheduling. In my view, those decisions created unnecessary procedural vulnerabilities in the Administration's efforts to move marijuana to Schedule III. Recently, I became more optimistic that the ALJ hearing would ultimately produce a Schedule III recommendation. I had discussions about the ALJ being a young up-and-comer who was unlikely to go against the direction of the President and, by extension, DEA. Under that theory, the anticipated outcome was either a recommendation for Schedule III or a recommendation simply concluding that marijuana should not remain in Schedule I. To be fair, that still could be the outcome. And nothing in this stay order necessarily suggests otherwise. Nevertheless, the fact that the proceeding has been interrupted by a report addressing agency scheduling procedures, rather than marijuana's medical efficacy or potential for abuse, raises additional questions about how and when this process will conclude. The Schedule II problem Schedule II remains the alternative outcome that concerns me most. As I discussed during the hearing, the evidence presented made Schedule I difficult to reconcile with marijuana's accepted medical use. But that does not mean the ALJ must recommend Schedule III. Schedule II remains a legally available and realistic alternative. For state-legal operators, Schedule II would be particularly damaging from a tax perspective because it would not eliminate Section 280E. This is precisely why I believe the ALJ proceeding is so important. If the separate medical marijuana final order is overturned and the ALJ recommends Schedule II, the industry's anticipated path to Schedule III becomes considerably more complicated. If the ALJ recommends Schedule II, but DEA nevertheless moves forward with Schedule III, opponents will use the ALJ's recommendation as part of a subsequent challenge to DEA's final order. That would not automatically invalidate a Schedule III determination. The ALJ's recommendation is not binding on DEA, and DEA has, and may, reach a different conclusion. Nevertheless, a Schedule II recommendation creates yet another issue for DEA to address and defend during judicial review. That is the scenario I am concerned about. None of those outcomes is inevitable. But the possibility illustrates why the procedural decisions being made now deserve attention. Is the Trump Administration still paying attention? Finally, this stay order raises a broader question about the Trump Administration's continued attention to marijuana rescheduling. There are plenty of other issues competing for the Administration's attention. And after the midterms, will the President still prioritize marijuana rescheduling? I do not assume that DEA, left entirely to its own institutional preferences, will aggressively push this process toward Schedule III. Nor would I assume that Administrator Terrance Cole necessarily shares the Administration's stated policy objective. If the Administration wants broader marijuana rescheduling to succeed, its continued attention to the administrative process matters. Several months ago, I wrote that I could envision a scenario in which the industry finds itself six months down the road with the medical marijuana Schedule III order rejected by the D.C. Circuit and the separate ALJ rescheduling proceeding ending with a recommendation for Schedule II. That scenario remains possible. Conclusion I want to end by returning to an important distinction. This stay order does not establish that the ALJ is against Schedule III, that the GAO Report will influence his recommendation, or that the Administration's rescheduling efforts are headed toward failure. It could mean absolutely nothing beyond a few additional weeks of procedural delay. My concern is not that the stay itself is particularly damaging. It is that the industry has two potential paths to Schedule III, one of which I believe faces serious problems in the D.C. Circuit, while the other continues to encounter procedural uncertainty. And if the ALJ proceeding is ultimately the industry's remaining opportunity to obtain meaningful federal tax relief through Schedule III, every additional complication deserves attention. The post "Marijuana" Rescheduling Delayed, Again. What It Could Mean, and What Comes Next appeared first on Harris Sliwoski LLP.

Pirates of the Caribbean actor Geoffrey Rush has said he's keen to make a return to Disney's swashbuckling franchise, if only to "annoy Jack Sparrow" one last time. Rush is one of just three actors to appear in all five Pirates of the Caribbean movies, alongside Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow and Kevin McNally's loyal first mate Gibbs. And while we don't know yet which characters are set to return for Disney's long-awaited sixth blockbuster, all signs point to several classic characters being brought back.Of course, Rush's character Hector Barbossa died in the finale of 2016's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the franchise's final film to date. But even this would not necessarily stop him from returning, Rush believes. "There's been a big enough break," Rush told Entertainment Weekly, discussing his desire to return. "I said, you know, I sacrificed myself for my daughter, I don't want it to be too easy and too cheesy that I come back and go: 'give me another payday.' I respect the scale of the opera that's almost been created in that 20 year period. "I liken it to... Shakespeare," Rush continued, "and Hamlet's father coming back as a ghost. I thought, that would take good writing but just to come back and annoy Jack Sparrow for one more go. I'd even say, get the fans to write in what they'd like to see happen."Back in August, Pirates of the Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer said he was now talking with Depp about his own potential return to the franchise, despite previous comments by the actor that made such a return seem extremely unlikely, as Disney mulled other, alternative routes forward for the franchise. Depp's past legal issues with ex-wife Amber Heard saw Disney largely distance itself from the star, leading to some choice words from Depp in response. Long-gestating plans have placed Barbie star Margot Robbie at the forefront of Pirates 6 if and when it does ever materialize. That said, Bruckheimer has previously confirmed his intent that "some" previous Pirates of the Caribbean actors would return for the next movie, while also offering "a new take" on the franchise overall. Depp, meanwhile, appears to have retained a strong affection for his role as Jack Sparrow, which is widely seen as his most popular character among his fans. Fellow Pirates star Orlando Bloom has strongly hinted he wants to see Depp back, as well. Could Rush also follow? Get writing those letters.

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