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The Top Cannabis Reform Groups to Follow (and Join)

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Additionally, the group has been at the front lines of criminal justice reform and harm reduction, which includes passing numerous regulations and advocating for safe syringe access for opioid addicts. According to plaintiff José Belén, “the DEA was told to act with ‘great dispatch’ and with ‘all deliberate speed”.

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The Top Cannabis Reform Groups to Follow (and Join)

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Additionally, the group has been at the front lines of criminal justice reform and harm reduction, which includes passing numerous regulations and advocating for safe syringe access for opioid addicts. According to plaintiff José Belén, “the DEA was told to act with ‘great dispatch’ and with ‘all deliberate speed”.

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New Frontiers in the Law of Psychedelics

Cannabis Law Report

Right to Try laws permit patients with serious or life-threatening diseases to access drugs that do not yet have government approval. Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”). Briefing is still under way, with the DEA’s responsive brief submitted on June 25, 2021, and the petitioners’ reply due July 16, 2021. AIMS Institute, PLLC.

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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., MAPS Founder Rick Doblin, Ph.D.,

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Cannabis Trends of 2022

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The DEA still classifies cannabis as a Schedule I controlled substance, a designation reserved for drugs with no medical value and a high potential for abuse. The governor of Alabama signed a recreational bill into law in 2021, but patients will likely not have access to retail products until 2022. in 2002 to 49.2%

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Further Consideration of the STATES Act

Cannabis Law Report

The DEA has made previous requests–in 2001 and 2006–to the FDA for an evaluation of marijuana. But DEA regulators determined after both of those reviews that marijuana should remain a Schedule I substance. 2, 2002 , 116 Stat. 2, 2002 , 116 Stat. 2, 2002 , 116 Stat. 2(a), Oct. 21, 1998 , 112 Stat.

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