DEA Mis-scheduling of Cannabis to Keep the Status Quo Ante August 15, 2016 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal 2 Comments Bitter sweetly, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has affirmed the woeful mis-scheduling of cannabis as a Schedule I drug after sitting on a number of multi-year old petitions (and decades of formal administrative legal challenges). Despite the existing Compassionate Investigational… Read More→
Where Do The 2016 Presidential Nominees Stand on Marijuana? August 12, 2016 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments Hillary Clinton says that as president she would support decriminalizing marijuana. The Democratic nominee released a statement Thursday saying that she would reschedule marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 2 drug. The reclassification would remove major restrictions to academic… Read More→
DEA Chief About Marijuana: “It’s Not Effective Medicine”; Rejects Bid To Reschedule August 11, 2016 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments The Obama administration has denied a bid by two Democratic governors to reconsider how it treats marijuana under federal drug control laws, keeping the drug for now, at least, in the most restrictive category for U.S. law enforcement purposes. Drug… Read More→
Obama Administration Set to Remove Barrier to Marijuana Research August 11, 2016 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal, Science and Technology 1 Comment The Obama administration is planning to remove a major roadblock to marijuana research, officials said Wednesday, potentially spurring broad scientific study of a drug that is being used to treat dozens of diseases in states across the nation despite little… Read More→
DEA Unlikely to Announce Marijuana Rescheduling in 2016 August 3, 2016 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments It's unofficially official. A senior executive at the Drug Enforcement Administration has confirmed that the DEA will not be rescheduling marijuana in 2016, says a local attorney who spoke with him late last week. "The DEA is not going to… Read More→
Georgia Patients Still Waiting For Legal Means To Purchase Marijuana July 25, 2016 AggregatedNews Georgia 0 Comments Proponents of the use of medical cannabis anxiously await word on a federal agency’s decision on how to classify marijuana. The Drug Enforcement Administration said earlier this year that it may loosen restrictions on marijuana, although its self-imposed June 30… Read More→
The Wait Continues: DEA Has Yet To Announce Rescheduling Plan For Marijuana July 20, 2016 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations, Policy & Legal 0 Comments Talk of rescheduling marijuana has kept the cannabis industry and social media ablaze in 2016—the year when theDrug Enforcement Administration will supposedly announce whether it will reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II drug. Recent rumors had a… Read More→
Last Word: How One Really Bad Story Makes the Cannabis Industry Look Stupid June 27, 2016 John Hollon Opinions, Policy & Legal 0 Comments Here's one thing you can be absolutely sure of: When the DEA finally decides to deal with the Federal classification of marijuana, the news won't come from some tiny and insignificant newspaper in Santa Monica, California that nobody has ever… Read More→
Growing medical marijuana could mean big business in Maryland. Here’s who wants in. June 25, 2016 AggregatedNews Maryland 0 Comments The people lining up to profit from Maryland’s legal medical marijuana market include former sheriffs and state lawmakers, wealthy business executives and well-connected political donors, according to previously undisclosed public records obtained by The Washington Post. Nearly 150 businesses are… Read More→
Group of Senators ask DEA and Justice Dept. For Update on Status of Cannabis Classification June 24, 2016 John Hollon News & Insights 0 Comments Sen. Elizabeth Warren has signed on to a letter asking the U.S. Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration for an update on the agencies' decision about whether they plan to change marijuana's classification at the federal level. Marijuana… Read More→
Salt Lake Deseret News Calls For Change in Federal Marijuana Classification June 1, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights, Policy & Legal 0 Comments In the not-too-distant past, we would have considered it unwise, and perhaps even dangerous, to change the federal classification of marijuana from a schedule 1 to a schedule 2 drug. But that was before 24 states and the District of… Read More→
Last Word: Research Is Yet Another Hostage to the Feds’ Short-Sighted Drug Policy May 23, 2016 John Hollon Opinions, Policy & Legal, Science and Technology 0 Comments Getting marijuana off the Drug Enforcement Administration's list of Schedule I drugs is the Holy Grail for the Cannabis Industry. You know why that is: As long as the Feds stigmatize marijuana and have it in the same category as heroin,… Read More→
The Scientific Evidence Supports Descheduling Cannabis, Not Rescheduling It April 6, 2016 Paul Armentano Opinions, Policy & Legal 0 Comments By Paul Armentano A memorandum issued this week by representatives of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to several U.S. Senators indicates that the agency is finally prepared to respond, imminently, to a five-year-old petition seeking to amend marijuana’s status as a schedule… Read More→
DEA Says It Will Decide Whether to Reschedule Marijuana by Mid-2016 April 6, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights 2 Comments The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to decide whether marijuana should reclassified under federal law in “the first half of 2016,” the agency said in a letter to senators. DEA, responding to a 2015 letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and… Read More→