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Document: Barr Responses To QFR’s: CLR Digs Out The Relevant Q’s & A’s

Cannabis Law Report

Access the full document at. For nearly fifty years, the University of Mississippi has had the sole contract with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to grow cannabis for research purposes. Both DOJ and HHS agreed to conduct a medical and scientific evaluation of CBD independent of marijuana in 2015.

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Three Myths and Three Facts on the HUGE Marijuana Rescheduling Recommendation

Canna Law Blog

This means that the country’s top health agency has finally conceded that cannabis has medical value, and isn’t a drug of abuse on par with fentanyl or heroin. As an HHS spokesperson explained: “While HHS’s scientific and medical evaluation is binding on DEA, the scheduling recommendation is not.

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Further Consideration of the STATES Act

Cannabis Law Report

CPA’s” PUBLISHER: CANNABIS LAW REPORT. Numerous attempts to introduce legislation to relax the provisions that placed cannabis on Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act [“CSA”] have been made beginning in 1981 [i]. State-compliant cannabis activity would no longer violate federal criminal law. 3032 and H.R.

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