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U.S. Funding Focuses on Marijuana’s Harms, Not Benefits

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research funders, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) , spent over $1 billion between 2000 and 2008, with a heavily slanted focus on cannabis abuse and misuse, as well as the negative effects of cannabis. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced that it will evaluate 37 additional grower applications. One of the largest U.S.

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5 Things to Talk About Besides Politics

CannaMD

Between 2000-2018, United States funding sources invested roughly 20 times more money into exposing marijuana’s harms than exploring its benefits. Making matters worse, there’s only one farm in the entire country with DEA approval to cultivate marijuana for research purposes. The Mississippi Monopoly.

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Podcast:Delta 8, CBD, 1% THC, And Other Issues Affecting The Hemp Industry: A Conversation With Eric Steenstra

Cannabis Law Report

In this edition of The 411 on 420, Perkins Coie partner Barak Cohen discusses hemp’s complicated past and promising future with Eric Steenstra, founding member of the Hemp Industries Association, Vice President of the California Hemp Council and President of Vote Hemp, the political advocacy organization that he co-founded in 2000.

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Nevada veterinarians can now treat patients with certain cannabis products

Cannabis Law Report

Nevada voters approved medical marijuana for people by ballot initiative in 2000. Department of Agriculture) website and look at the laboratories that the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) has approved as being appropriate for analysis of hemp crops,” Dr. Boothe said. Cannabis became legal for recreational use in the state on Jan.

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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. submitted his first DEA application to manufacture marijuana for use in medical research. To celebrate this, we invite you to take a trip down memory lane and review highlights from every year of our history. Rick Doblin, Ph.D., and Michael Mithoefer, M.D., Lyle Craker, Ph.D.,

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The Top Cannabis Reform Groups to Follow (and Join)

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The DPF changed its name in 2000 when it merged with the Ethan Nadelmann’s Lindesmith Center. The nature of the federal ruling places pressure on the DEA to move quickly; faster than if the CCA were to attempt to reduce the scheduling through other channels such as congress. Zeese had previously directed NORML in the early 80s.

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The Top Cannabis Reform Groups to Follow (and Join)

PrestoDoctor

The DPF changed its name in 2000 when it merged with the Ethan Nadelmann’s Lindesmith Center. The nature of the federal ruling places pressure on the DEA to move quickly; faster than if the CCA were to attempt to reduce the scheduling through other channels such as congress. Zeese had previously directed NORML in the early 80s.

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