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

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Under existing regulations, the agency only licenses one facility — the University of Mississippi — to cultivate cannabis for use in FDA-approved clinical trials. In 2016, the agency appeared to reconsider its longstanding policy, and publicly stated for the first time that it would consider additional applicants.

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Legislation To Produce And Research Cannabis Introduced

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A bipartisan coalition of House lawmakers has introduced The Medical Cannabis Research Act of 2019 ( HR 601 ), to facilitate federally-approved clinical trials involving cannabis. Click here to send a message to your Representative and urge them to support the measure. . The agency ultimately rejected her decision.

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

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Currently, the sole federally licensed producer of cannabis for clinical research is the University of Mississippi. ” 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. .”

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Court Dismisses Case Demanding DEA to Move Expeditiously to License Cannabis Cultivators

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Justices for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the petition following a filing by DEA in the Federal Register stating that the agency “intends to promulgate regulations” to review several dozen federal cultivation applications.

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NORML “Senate Unanimously Approves Legislation Providing US Attorney General with Greater Say in Cannabis Research Decisions”

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Senate Bill 253: The Cannabidiol and Marihuana Research Expansion Act provides the office of US Attorney General, rather than the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the discretion to license scientists to engage in clinical trials involving the use of cannabis by human subjects. The full text of S. 253 is online here.

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NIDA Monopoly is Over: New DEA-Registered Cannabis Growers Can Supply Researchers with Product

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Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to cultivate marijuana for research purposes. In 2016, Dr. Sue Sisley first applied to grow cannabis for research purposes when the Obama administration announced a plan to allow other growers to provide cannabis to researchers. The DEA dragged their feet on this plan for years, so lawsuits were filed.

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New Frontiers in the Law of Psychedelics

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Then, in November 2019, the FDA granted the designation to the nonprofit Usona Institute to study psilocybin’s effect on major depressive order, for which clinical trials are currently under way. See Usona Institute, A Study of Psilocybin for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) , Clinical Trial ID NCT03866174, available at [link].

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