Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 12/29/25)

This week’s Taboo & Repugnant Roundup covers three developments at the intersection of law, health policy, and institutional design. The post begins with the Trump executive order directing DOJ and HHS to complete rulemaking to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act. It then turns to New York Times reporting on U.S. hospitals transplanting foreign patients, followed by a separate NYT investigation into the National Kidney Registry and kidney exchange.

Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 12/29/25) by Kimberly D. Krawiec

Cannabis rescheduling, transplanting foreigners, and an expose on the nation’s largest kidney exchange network

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