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Chacruna: Ayahuasca FOIA Requests Reveal Increased Ayahuasca Seizures, Lack of Due Process and Government Secrecy

Cannabis Law Report

Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”). Given the alarming and noticeable increase in ayahuasca border seizures in 2020, the main intent of these initial requests was to see how many seizures happened that year and if the government had a specific policy regarding these seizures. Customs Border Patrol (“CBP”) and U.S. 562 [2011]).

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The Top Cannabis Reform Groups to Follow (and Join)

PrestoDoctor

Today, groups with a decade or less of experience advance policy and conversations alongside the veteran alliances of the movement. NORML acts as a resource for media on cannabis, as well as informs lawmakers, lobbies and other top officials regarding policy. The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA). The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA).

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The Top Cannabis Reform Groups to Follow (and Join)

PrestoDoctor

Today, groups with a decade or less of experience advance policy and conversations alongside the veteran alliances of the movement. NORML acts as a resource for media on cannabis, as well as informs lawmakers, lobbies and other top officials regarding policy. The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA). The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA).

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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. MAPS hired Sylvia Thyssen as our first employee , celebrated the 50th anniversary of LSD , outlined perspectives on drug policy , and worked toward facilitating a pilot study for medical marijuana. Lyle Craker, Ph.D.,

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Cannabis Trends of 2022

Kind Meds (Cannabis Education Blog)

As policies become more data-driven and progressive, cultivation and production technologies have continued to improve drastically over the past several years. 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. in 2002 to 49.2%

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Will President Trump's U.S. Attorney General Nominee Barr Marijuana Legalization?

MJ Business Attorneys

Although today’s popular view on drug policy drastically differs from that of the 1990’s, even Barr’s recent efforts toward defending the criminal justice system should cause concern for cannabis activists. More recently, in 2015 he wrote a letter to lawmakers urging them not to suggest any sentencing reform bills.

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Further Consideration of the STATES Act

Cannabis Law Report

Both paths are complex processes in which scientific, medical, policy and political forces have influence. There are other avenues Congress can take besides rescheduling marijuana to ameliorate the seeming breakdown in federalism brought about by federal marijuana policy. It was not a policy priority of the Obama administration.

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