A federal judge in California declined on Wednesday to remove marijuana from the federal list of most dangerous narcotics, rejecting a closely watched request from people accused of illegally growing pot, prosecutors said. Marijuana activists had been encouraged when U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller considered arguments for reclassifying marijuana during a five-day evidentiary hearing last year. It is believed no other federal judge in a criminal case in at least four decades had agreed to rule on whether marijuana was improperly classified as a Schedule One drug under a 1970 law. At a hearing on Wednesday in Sacramento, Mueller said she had kept an open mind before deciding not to reclassify the drug, said Lauren Horwood, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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