Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 30, 2022

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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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 29, 2022

8] Spravato is derived from ketamine and categorized by DEA as a Schedule III controlled substance. Clinical Trials and Human Subject Protections. Before the drug approval process even begins, sponsors must initiate clinical investigations by first filing an Investigational New Drug Application (IND) with FDA.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 9, 2021

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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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 4, 2021

In 1996, California legalized medical cannabis yet today, with 37 US States allowing for medical cannabis sales, we still do not have an overall comprehensive cannabis/cannabinoid education program. Consumers, regulators, and legislators remain in the dark on cannabis. CO’s MED has just banned the sale of Delta 8 in rec retail.

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 7, 2020

Ole Miss got the cannabis study and research cultivation gig from the DEA (via a contract with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)) in 1968. This was before implementation of the federal government’s Compassionate Investigational New Drug Program (CINDP), which Ole Miss’s grow now serves in addition to its research.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 8, 2022

This year, we are completing the second Phase 3 clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD , the final stage prior to requesting FDA approval for a new prescription treatment to help heal trauma. Later that year, Doblin sued the DEA for the first time. Rick Doblin, Ph.D., and Michael Mithoefer, M.D., Lyle Craker, Ph.D.,

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NORML

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

We also spoke with her attorneys, who explained why they believed the DEA broke the law by holding up long-promised medical marijuana research licenses. Essentially, the federal government has monopolized cannabis research, and ElSohly’s product, according to some scientists who’ve seen it, is unsuitable for clinical trials.

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