Freedom Leaf

OCTOBER 15, 2018

On September 28, the DEA designated Epidiolex —a plant-based CBD pharmaceutical manufactured by the UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals—a Schedule V drug in the government’s list of controlled substances. schedules were created by the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in 1970 and are interpreted and enforced by the DEA.

DEA

Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2016, the Agency announced that it would expand the pool of federally licensed growers beyond just the University of Mississippi (which was initially granted a federal cannabis cultivation license in 1968). The full text of S. 253 is online here.

Legislation

Veriheal

JULY 29, 2021

The DEA’s push to review cannabis research applications has been anticipated for quite some time. In 2016, the Agency revealed that it would start accepting applications from hopeful growers. Fast forward to 2019 and the DEA unveiled eagerly anticipated plans for cannabis research.

DEA

Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The law was modified in 2016 in House Bill 992. ” North Carolina also raised concerns about the interim rules requiring testing for all hemp. General Assembly passed Senate Bill 313 in 2015, allowing the Industrial Hemp Commission to develop the rules and licensing structure necessary to stay within federal laws.

Hemp

Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The bill’s sponsor, State Assemblyman Steve Yeager, introduced the measure in February because Nevada law was unclear about whether veterinarians were permitted to administer CBD products or discuss them with pet owners. 1, 2017, following a 2016 ballot measure. Cannabis became legal for recreational use in the state on Jan.

Patients

Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

We’ve written a lot about cannabis and the Controlled Substances Act. Not long ago we wrote about a decision by the Second Circuit that may force the DEA to re- or deschedule marijuana after writing about the lawsuit when it was first filed last year. From immigration to waste dumping.

Education

Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 18, 2019

Sacramento New & Review have detailed the DEA, FBI and IRS investigations and written a piece well worth reading if you want to understand how difficult it is going to be to dig out the entrenched black sector of cannabis in California. But there was nothing typical about the car’s story. It was September 14, 2016.

Banking

The Herb Collective

JUNE 25, 2018

There are about 10 Big-Pharma drugs based on cannabis. According to Trend Statistics, there are over 2,604,079 medical marijuana patients in 2016, with 19.8 "Every year, about 98% of all of the grass removed by the DEA's "Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program" is really hemp."

Marijuana

Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 1, 2019

The following are highlights of this historic agreement: SIVA will exclusively handle the rewrite of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), with limited involvement allowed from the different federal agencies, including the FDA, DEA, etc. You’ll find his past employment history but nothing about educational background.

DEA

Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 8, 2022

Later that year, Doblin sued the DEA for the first time. MAPS continued to publish Bulletin articles about MDMA research , requests for donations , and discontinuing animal studies. submitted his first DEA application to manufacture marijuana for use in medical research. MAPS Founder Rick Doblin, Ph.D., Lyle Craker, Ph.D.,

Clinical Trials

CannaMD

MAY 6, 2020

CannaMD sorts through the confusion, outlining everything Florida residents need to know about using medical marijuana outside of the Sunshine State. In practice, the chances of feds or the DEA sitting at the border waiting to catch someone – that’s just not happening. Can you use your medical marijuana card in different states?

Hash

SpeedWeed

JULY 9, 2021

64 in November 2016. . But, make no mistake about it: Things would be drastically different if there wasn’t such a massive barrier to entry for California’s legal industry. A DEA report released in March said that the agency is seizing about 80 percent less cannabis at the US-Mexican border as compared to 2013.

DEA

The Blunt Truth

JUNE 6, 2019

The Blunt Truth started in February 2016, with the slightly crazy idea that a BigLaw firm could talk about marijuana on a regular basis. Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. F irst, a point of personal pride.

Banking

Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Jamie Balagia, has been charged by the FBI with conspiracy to commit money laundering and obstruction of justice in an alleged plot that took about $1.2 The jury deliberated for about a day and a half following the two-week trial in the Eastern District of Texas in Sherman before U.S. million from Colombian clients.

DEA

SMPL

AUGUST 14, 2019

It said that knowledge about marijuana’s risks and benefits has evolved in the years since the drug was placed in Schedule I of the CSA and that it no longer made sense to schedule cannabis in the same category as substances that are decidedly more dangerous.

Policy

Cannabis Law Report

JULY 30, 2019

People are excited about cannabis as medication, but they don’t know anything about it. Cannabis is not a “gateway” drug, according to the ASA and the DEA’s own statements cited in the August 2016 U.S. Download : Cannabis Misinformation: What Does the DEA say about Marijuana?

Marijuana

Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Questions continue to be raised, however, about the legality of one of the country’s most popular hemp products, hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD). Accordingly, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) no longer has any claim to interfere with the interstate commerce of hemp products, so as long as the THC level is at or below 0.3%.

Hemp

PrestoDoctor

JULY 16, 2019

Since 2016 the Cannabis Cultural Association (CCA) has helped marginalized and underrepresented communities engage in the legal cannabis industry, emphasizing criminal justice reform, access to medical cannabis, and adult use legalization. The case now remains in the DEA’s hands until further notice.

Policy

PrestoDoctor

JULY 16, 2019

Since 2016 the Cannabis Cultural Association (CCA) has helped marginalized and underrepresented communities engage in the legal cannabis industry, emphasizing criminal justice reform, access to medical cannabis, and adult use legalization. The case now remains in the DEA’s hands until further notice.

Policy

Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

6 Despite the changing landscape of marijuana regulations nationwide, past year use of marijuana reached and maintained its lowest levels in more than two decades in 2016 among 8 th and 10 th graders. www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/substance-abuse.html. www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/marijuana.html. Eur J Intern Med.

Cannabinoids

Canna Law Blog

MAY 16, 2024

In a much anticipated announcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to reschedule marijuana, from Controlled Substances Act (CSA) schedule I to schedule III (the “Proposed Rule”). First , DEA is not proposing an interim final rule. We expected as much, but it would have been nice!

DEA

Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) to reschedule marijuana. As we all know, the DEA has routinely refused to accept or denied each and every petition, minus one that yielded very specific changes for a synthetic cannabis drug. Per the usual course, the DEA filed a motion to dismiss for failure to exhaust administrative remedies.

DEA

Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Many people in the cannabis industry are convinced that this HHS recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) means that the DEA will undertake this rescheduling (and fairly quickly, too–which would be a huge departure from its refusal to reschedule back in 2016). if the plant is moved to Schedule III.

Research and Development

The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The FDA cracked down on CBD companies making bogus claims about their products. The DEA released an interim hemp rule that the industry hated. And the DEA’s hemp rule brought on litigation. And the DEA’s hemp rule brought on litigation. Maine , which legalized in 2016, started sales this month.

DEA

Canna Law Blog

JULY 20, 2020

But interest has not stopped there and we’ve also been fielding questions about newer or lesser known substances as well. Today, we’re going to write about a substance that’s gotten a lot less attention: kratom. Kratom is a species of plant ( Mi tragyna speciosa ) that is native to certain regions in Southeast Asia.

Legalization

Cannabis Law Report

MAY 29, 2022

8] Spravato is derived from ketamine and categorized by DEA as a Schedule III controlled substance. DEA and the Controlled Substances Act. In addition to the arduous FDA approval process, potential psychedelic therapies would also require complying with requirements from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). 2] David E.

Research and Development

Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

To expand the number of manufacturers, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) submitted a notice in the Federal Register on August 11, 2016, soliciting applications for licenses to manufacture marijuana for research purposes. However, over two years have passed without any new schedule I marijuana manufacturer registrations.

Research and Development

Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 4, 2021

Do you think there would be such a fuss about 8 if it didn’t get people “high”? . But the “fuss” is largely about the huge consumer demand and the slightly intoxicating effect for sure. The alarming part about Delta 8-THC is that someone is creating it in a lab instead of it naturally occurring in the plant.

Research and Development

Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The companies are advertising it as a legal way to get high, touting medical benefits and generally making big promises about what they can deliver, but an investigation from the US Cannabis Council has found illegal levels of delta-9 THC in products for sale around the country. But it can’t really be as bad as it sounds, can it?

THC

CannaMD

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Thinking about getting your card? What about travel? SHORT ANSWER: In November 2016, the Florida Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative (known as Amendment 2 ) legalized medical marijuana treatment in Florida. To learn more about the CannaMD team, see: Meet Our Doctors. Current Florida medical marijuana patient?

Law

Cannabis Law Report

JULY 12, 2019

Concerns about mental and developmental health have been raised over THC and high THC cannabis concentrates, however CBD has been shown to moderate or even cancel out the effects of THC. (7). Moreover, since CBD can never be fully isolated, the packaging of CBD medicines should warn about the presence of THC. 7/2016 (498-501).

Extraction

Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 1, 2019

2015-149), the taxpayer’s marijuana dispensary was raided by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and some marijuana was seized. The taxpayer carried more than 70 different strains of marijuana but failed to identify which strains were confiscated by the DEA. Laws are subject to change. The taxpayers in Feinberg v. Comm’r (T.C.

Marijuana

SpeedWeed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There was no testing information, no information about the manufacturer, no product safety assurance whatsoever. . About the fake Cheetos, Slosburg said: “Just like anything, you probably don’t want to put it in your body if you really don’t know where it came from.”. DEA’s July 2021 update. Not a whole lot. But the U.S.

Vaping

Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

This all looks pretty good right now, but the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and ultimately the Attorney General (AG) have final say on whether to schedule or reschedule marijuana following the HHS recommendation. In any case, the DEA Administrator reports to the AG (through the Deputy AG). The AG could then reschedule.

DEA

Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

I’m sure Rod thinks about this too, although it’s hard to cover everything in a short blog post! Today I want to talk about the NDI issue and expand on it a little further. I don’t want to go down that rabbit hole today, but you can read about it here if interested. But, it can be intoxicating.

Cannabinoids

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. It’s been nearly three years since the DEA announced its revolutionary cultivator program. Dr. Sue Sisley. Later that night, everyone celebrated at a hotel bar.

DEA

Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 25, 2019

There are other avenues Congress can take besides rescheduling marijuana to ameliorate the seeming breakdown in federalism brought about by federal marijuana policy. The DEA has made previous requests–in 2001 and 2006–to the FDA for an evaluation of marijuana. 18, 2016 , 130 Stat. 7, 2016 , 130 Stat.

Banking