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DEA Gets Served Another Lawsuit for Blocking Cannabis Research

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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. Back in 2016, the DEA said they were starting the process of approving “additional marijuana cultivators.”

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The DEA Does Not Want You To Worry About Its New Hemp Rule. Don’t Take the Bait!

Canna Law Blog

Last week the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a bad interim hemp rule. North Carolina attorney Rod Kight raised these concerns as well and he and I both spoke to Kyle Jaeger of Marijuana Moment about why we think are concerned about the DEA’s interim hemp rule. Weekly in a phone interview.

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“Activist Apes” Use Kubrick Imagery To Highlight DEA’s Monolithic Attitudes Towards Cannabis & Psychedelic Compounds

Cannabis Law Report

A group of activists dressed in ape suits danced around an eight-foot monolith that they erected outside of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters on Wednesday, calling on the agency to evolve its policies on marijuana and other controlled substances. It’s OK if you need to read that again. Read more at.

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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. Lyle Craker, Ph.D.,

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3 New Federal Proposals Aimed at Cannabis, Psilocybin, and Hemp Reform

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In February 2021, a lawsuit was filed against the DEA for prohibiting access for others aside from the University of Mississippi to cultivate cannabis for research purposes. Lyle has been seeking authorization to become a federally licensed cannabis cultivator since 2001.

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Go West Young Man, A Cork Cannabis Farmer’s Experiences In The Regulated California Market

Cannabis Law Report

He opened the doors on April 4, 2001, and, remarkably, was never raided. The DEA was targeting those people who put their heads above the parapet. Now, that money is being made available for those that need it. Mr O’Brien also runs the longest running dispensary in the world: The Patients Care Collective in Berkely.

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Report: “Key pharmacological differences between side effects of refined, pharmaceutical CBD formulations and whole plant extracts:”

Cannabis Law Report

31) The United States DEA has stated that small amounts of other cannabinoids will also occur in all cannabis extracts, even those that purport to be CBD only – unless synthesized de novo, CBD isolate will always contain small amounts of THC when extracted from a plant. 25, November/December 2001. 32: United States DEA.