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Court: DEA Must Explain Its Failure to Act Upon Pending Marijuana Cultivation Applications

NORML

A federal court has ordered the Drug Enforcement Administration to respond to a lawsuit charging the agency with failing to move forward with a 2016 policy to expand the total number of federally licensed marijuana cultivators. “[This filing is] asking the court for an order compelling the DEA to process our application.

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ICYMI: DEA and Cannabis Research Still Lousy Bedfellows

Canna Law Blog

At the same time, because of the federal illegality of cannabis, the federal government has routinely denied third party requests for further research in regards to its potential medical benefits, among other health and safety impacts. As of December 2019, there are only two patients on the coveted list and no new entrants are permitted.

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DEA Gets Served Another Lawsuit for Blocking Cannabis Research

Veriheal

” Another Scientist is Suing to Cultivate Research Grade Cannabis. The filing is backed by MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) and calls on the DEA to answer a four-year-old filing requesting approval of his application to become a federally registered marijuana cultivator. Why the delay?

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Secret Memo Shows Trump Administration Blocked Marijuana Research For Years

SMPL

The Obama Administration signed legislation late in 2016 that would expand the number of facilities growing marijuana for research, but the Drug Enforcement Agency hasn’t granted any licenses four years later. Furthermore, both NIDA and DEA have split oversight responsibilities of federally licensed marijuana spanning back several decades.

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MAPS Is 36 Years Old – Doblin Provides Precis Timeline of the Organization

Cannabis Law Report

Later that year, Doblin sued the DEA for the first time. The FDA formally decided to open the door to psychedelic research in human participants, and later accepted MAPS’ Phase 1 MDMA safety and tolerance study protocol. submitted his first DEA application to manufacture marijuana for use in medical research.

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Cannabis Industry Leaders Speak With CLR on Current Delta 8 Issues In The Industry

Cannabis Law Report

He decided to apply his knowledge and experience to the cannabis industry, and has assisted in developing industry- leading methods of analyses for cannabis and hemp testing since co-founding the lab in 2016. Based on the way it’s produced, Delta 8-THC should be batch tested to ensure consumer safety.

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CPA Journal Article: “Providing Services to the Marijuana Industry”

Cannabis Law Report

Since 2009, the Department of Justice has announced that it may not focus enforcement efforts on seriously ill individuals or their caregivers in states where marijuana cultivation and distribution for medical use is legalized; this guideline, however, was rescinded in 2018. States Legalizing Marijuana. The taxpayers in Feinberg v.