What to know about the federal government’s big changes to marijuana rules coming soon February 5, 2024 AggregatedNews Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, Federal 2 Comments It could come today. Or in a few weeks. Maybe within the next month. Whenever it happens, rescheduling marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act – which regulates what drugs are considered illegal and just how illegal they are – would… Read More→
A Prescription for Progress? September 21, 2023 Benton Bodamer Policy & Legal 0 Comments Would a Schedule III Reclassification of Psychoactive Cannabis Help or Hurt State Operators? By Benton Bodamer, Member, Dickinson Wright PLLC, Adjunct Professor of Law, Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University I. Introduction On… Read More→
NORML’s 50-Year Fight to Deschedule Cannabis September 7, 2023 Tom Hymes Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments As much as NORML has been in the cannabis spotlight as the preeminent organization fighting to normalize a plant that has helped so many of us so profoundly, a whispered consensus could likely be found that its day has come… Read More→
Three Myths and Three Facts on the HUGE Marijuana Rescheduling Recommendation September 1, 2023 AggregatedNews Federal 0 Comments By Vince Sliwoski, Attorney at Harris Bricken Huge news yesterday. Huge! The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has officially recommended that marijuana be rescheduled, from Schedule I to Schedule III of the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). This means that the… Read More→
Veterans Are Adamant About Rescheduling Marijuana September 8, 2016 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments The American Legion, a group representing 2.4 million U.S. military veterans, has called on Congress to remove marijuana from Schedule 1 of the federal Controlled Substances Act and "reclassify it in a category that, at a minimum will recognize cannabis as a drug… Read More→
Getting Potential Marijuana Investors to ‘Sign the Check’ Can Be Tricky August 22, 2016 AggregatedNews Cannabis Investments 0 Comments This tops the previous record raise of $75 million by Privateer Holdings. However, raising the money isn’t as easy as it sounds. “There’s a big appetite to learn about the industry,” said Mark Riiska, chief operating officer at Tuatara, “But… Read More→
Rob Kampia: “It Barely Mattered Which Way the DEA Ruled” August 19, 2016 AggregatedNews Industry People, Policy & Legal 0 Comments In the wake of the DEA’s decision against rescheduling marijuana, the super-majority of the American people who support legalizing medical marijuana might properly wonder, “How bad is this news?” As the leader of the largest marijuana-policy-reform organization in the nation,… Read More→
What did you say about marijuana Chuckie? August 16, 2016 Jerry King Cartoons, Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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→
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→
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Rescheduling Marijuana June 28, 2016 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments We know the Drug Enforcement Administration is thinking about rescheduling marijuana. But we don’t know what will happen to the way we regulate all things marijuana — and America’s existing cannabis industry, too — if the drug is rescheduled from… Read More→