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U.S. set to allow more facilities to produce marijuana for research

Moving to end one university’s decadeslong monopoly on supplying marijuana for U.S. research, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said last Friday it will soon issue licenses to a number of growing facilities. Since 1968, only one operation, the University of…

‘Cannabis college’: Five universities to offer first ever online marijuana courses, seeing opportunity amid coronavirus

As federal lawmakers in Washington continue to slow-walk — or outright oppose — the legalisation of marijuana, the budding industry is plowing ahead making crucial inroads with another institution of prestige to help lend it legitimacy: higher education. Five universities —…

One doctor vs. the DEA: Inside the battle to study marijuana in America

Early in Dr. Sue Sisley’s medical career, military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder told her that smoking marijuana prevented nightmares and helped them sleep. Sisley, a primary care physician and psychiatrist in Scottsdale, Arizona, who has treated vets for two…

Another year passes without approval of new suppliers of marijuana for research

Forgive us if you read our stories on this topic from 2017 and 2018, but here it comes again: Another year has passed since the Drug Enforcement Administration said it was open to approving more suppliers of marijuana for scientific research, and…

Cannabis and Hemp Industry Trembles After FDA Cracks the Whip

With the FDA "locked and loaded," and billions of annual sales and "deal flow capital" hanging in the balance, the cannabis and hemp industries are questioning whether their products can be manufactured, sold and marketed without vending adulterated or misbranded…

Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America

Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring about the ongoing and…

DEA reclassifies plant-derived marijuana medicine

According to a release issued by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Epidiolex, a prescription medicine containing a standardized formulation of plant-derived cannabidiol (CBD), has been reclassified by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to Schedule V — the lowest restriction…

Inside The Trump Administration’s Secret War On Cannabis

The White House has secretly amassed a committee of federal agencies from across the government to combat public support for marijuana and cast state legalization measures in a negative light, while attempting to portray the drug as a national threat,…

Parents Worry Feds’ Potential OK Of Medical Marijuana Could Roll Back State Programs

A British pharmaceutical company is getting closer to a decision on whether the U.S government will approve the first prescription drug derived from the marijuana plant, but parents who for years have used cannabis to treat severe forms of epilepsy…

Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America

Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring about the ongoing and…

Feds Unlikely To Pursue Michigan Medical Marijuana, But Treasury Will

There is good news and bad news for the fledgling marijuana industry in Michigan. The good news first: The federal budget passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump on Friday includes language that continues the policy that the federal…

New York Judge Tosses Lawsuit To Legalize Marijuana Nationally

February 27, 2018
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New York
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A federal judge in New York tossed out a sweeping lawsuit Monday that sought to make marijuana legal under federal law, ruling that the plaintiffs had failed to take the necessary first step of asking the Drug Enforcement Administration to remove…

DEA Asks Feds to Grow 978 Pounds of Marijuana for Research Next Year

443,680 grams. That's how much marijuana the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants federally-licensed researchers to grow for use in scientific studies in 2018. That amounts to a little more than 978 pounds of government-cultivated cannabis. While that may sound like…

Veterans Show Overwhelming Support for Medical Marijuana in Recent Survey

Veterans tend to be an older, more conservative group, but that doesn’t stop them from advocating for a radical change in direction from the nation’s outdated policies on marijuana. The American Legion, represents many conservative veterans, but that doesn’t stop…

DEA Reinforces That All Cannabis Extracts, Including CBD Oil, Are Schedule I Substances

December 14, 2016
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Organizations & Associations, Policy & Legal
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The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) made CBD oil a little more federally illegal in a little-noticed bureaucratic maneuver this morning. Today’s Federal Register (Dec. 14, 2016) contains an item (21 CFR Part 1308) that establishes a new drug code…