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Legendary Cannabis Advocate Eddy Lepp Passes Away 1952-2021

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Lepp was one of the industry’s greatest advocates, leaving his mark as one of many who suffered in prison as a result of trying to cultivate medical cannabis and help patients get access. Lepp received a 10-year prison sentence in September 2009 at age 56. Sadly, the defense wasn’t enough. The presiding U.S.

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New Frontiers in the Law of Psychedelics

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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

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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., Members of the U.S.

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Meadowlands: Update from Local Regulators with the Cannabis Czars of Los Angeles, San Francisco…

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we want everyone who did not have the opportunity to attend Meadowlands to have access to this content. I moved to San Francisco in 2006 and started my time in city government in 2009, so I spent over a decade in city hall working for two administrations. So please feel free to share this post with your network and your community?—?we

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Further Consideration of the STATES Act

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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(f)(1), May 20, 2009 , 123 Stat. 2(f)(2), May 20, 2009 , 123 Stat. 1664 , 1857, 1858, 1870; Pub.

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David Feldman – Hiller PC: Imperfect Schumer bill good step forward

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Regulatory authority would move from the DEA to the FDA, but also the ATF and the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB). The fate of the SAFE Banking Act to enhance banking access for cannabis companies, which Sen. Also a THC-based tax (much as New York is implementing) kicks in after five years. Some Thoughts.

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