Most Americans want legal pot. Here’s why feds are taking so long to change old rules. February 18, 2024 AggregatedNews Federal 0 Comments Marijuana remains in an odd legal limbo in the United States, and there's one organization at the center of it: The Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA has for decades held that marijuana is among the most dangerous, highly addictive drugs and… Read More→
Democrats urge Biden administration to deschedule marijuana January 30, 2024 AggregatedNews Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana 0 Comments Senate Democrats are putting new pressure on the Biden administration to ease federal restrictions on marijuana in a new letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday as it considers rescheduling cannabis after it was federally classified more than five decades ago.… Read More→
All the Outcomes of a Marijuana Reschedule January 23, 2024 Hilary Bricken News & Insights 0 Comments By Hilary Bricken, Attorney at Husch Blackwell Between linkedin, twitter, the media, and diehard marijuana investors, there is more noise and froth in the industry about a marijuana reschedule than I’ve seen since Washington and Colorado legalized back in 2012. When… Read More→
What Overturning Chevron Could Mean for Cannabis January 23, 2024 Tom Hymes Hemp Policy & Legal, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments If the United States Supreme Court overturns the longstanding Chevron deference, which is not unlikely considering the mien of certain justices during recent oral arguments as well as a general antipathy to the doctrine that has developed over the years,… Read More→
What if Federal Marijuana Reform Doesn’t Happen Anytime Soon? Part 1 October 10, 2022 AggregatedNews Federal 1 Comment By Jesse Mondry, Attorney at Harris Bricken The Oregon marijuana industry is hurting, much like industry in California and other states. Among the many reasons (overproduction, market saturation) is that federal marijuana laws have not been reformed at all. For… Read More→
U.S. set to allow more facilities to produce marijuana for research May 18, 2021 AggregatedNews Cannabis & Hemp Research 0 Comments 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… Read More→
‘Cannabis college’: Five universities to offer first ever online marijuana courses, seeing opportunity amid coronavirus May 28, 2020 AggregatedNews Training & Education 0 Comments 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 —… Read More→
One doctor vs. the DEA: Inside the battle to study marijuana in America April 30, 2020 AggregatedNews Cannabis & Hemp Research 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Another year passes without approval of new suppliers of marijuana for research July 29, 2019 AggregatedNews Cannabis & Hemp Research 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Cannabis and Hemp Industry Trembles After FDA Cracks the Whip May 9, 2019 Steven Schain Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America January 9, 2019 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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… Read More→
DEA reclassifies plant-derived marijuana medicine November 26, 2018 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Inside The Trump Administration’s Secret War On Cannabis August 29, 2018 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 1 Comment 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,… Read More→
Parents Worry Feds’ Potential OK Of Medical Marijuana Could Roll Back State Programs June 19, 2018 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America April 19, 2018 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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… Read More→