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RIP Steve Levine: Once Arrested for Planting Hemp Seeds on DEA Lawn

Cannabis Law Report

In 2011, Levine was arrested along with five others after they planted hemp seeds on the lawn at the DEA headquarters in Arlington, VA. 2009 ~ DEA Headquarters ~ American Farmers Shall Grow Hemp Again, Reefer Madness Will Be Buried.”

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Legislation To Produce And Research Cannabis Introduced

NORML

As the result of a lawsuit, DEA Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner in 2007 ruled that expanding the pool of federally licensed providers would be “in the public interest.” The agency ultimately rejected her decision.

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Justice Department Urged To Take “Immediate Action” On Marijuana Grow Applications

NORML

” Last year, however, former DEA director Robert Patterson testified to Congress that the agency believed that approving additional applicants would likely violate international anti-drug treaties. Patterson said that DEA could not move forward granting any new applications until the Justice Department clarified the issue. .”

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AIMS v. Garland: A Disappointment for Psilocybin Advocates, but Progressive Policy May Still be on the Horizon

Cannabis Law Report

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed a petition for review of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) response to an attorney’s letter seeking advice and guidance on how a physician could administer psilocybin to a terminally ill patient without incurring liability under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). By Allison Campbell.

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Will HHC Show On A Drug Test?

Otherside Farms

Japanese researchers published a paper in 2007 describing HHC’s impressive pain-blocking capability in mice. HHC could get the attention of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as some experts think HHC falls under the Federal Analogue Act, which automatically classifies analogs of Schedule 1 drugs as Schedule 1 drugs. percent.

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NORML Formally Responds to DEA’s Proposed Changes to Marijuana Cultivation Rules

NORML

As a result, the DEA has been encouraged for over a decade to expand the pool of federally licensed cannabis producers — a move that the agency has largely resisted. To date, however, the DEA has failed to either affirm or reject any of the more than 30 applications it has received. In 2007, the agency lost yet another lawsuit.

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Is It Legal to Grow Hemp in All 50 States?

Otherside Farms

However, in 2004, there was a lawsuit against the Hemp Industries Association and the DEA. In 2007, some farmers in North Dakota actually received a hemp license, and they were allowed to grow hemp. Since there was none being grown locally, they had to import it so they could avoid a shortage.

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