Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The North Carolina Department of Agriculture (“NCDA”) provides a useful summary of the state’s law regarding hemp cultivation: Hemp production has been legalized in North Carolina, but only as part of the state’s pilot program as allowed under federal law. The law was modified in 2016 in House Bill 992.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 9, 2021

Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”). Some physicians and therapists have argued that the Right to Try Act permits them to administer psilocybin to terminally ill patients (since studies are well past the Phase 1 stage), but the DEA has met this with resistance given psilocybin’s status as a Schedule I drug. AIMS Institute, PLLC.

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SMPL

AUGUST 14, 2019

While the House approved a budget rider that would extend protections to adult-use programs , it’s not clear how that will fare in the Senate—and even if it passes, it must be annually renewed, creating uncertainty. One area that could be quickly improved is in the sourcing of research-grade marijuana.

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The Herb Collective

JUNE 25, 2018

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." In 2016, sales of marijuana totaled $6.7 Source: ProCon) 8.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

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. IDEA requires that schools provide special education services as outlined in a student’s Individualized Education Program (“IEP”).

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

1, Louisiana’s medical cannabis program allows patients to access smokable whole-plant flower marijuana. 1, out-of-state medical marijuana patients may access Arkansas’ program to purchase cannabis for up to 90 days. This DEA guidance and the Kansas opinion both suggest legality for some hemp-derived delta-8 products under the 0.3

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CannaMD

MAY 6, 2020

In practice, the chances of feds or the DEA sitting at the border waiting to catch someone – that’s just not happening. For more information, see: The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2016. For more information, see: Hawaii Department of Health Medical Cannabis Registry Program. Possession Limit: 2.5 Washington D.C.

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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.

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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). Just my two cents; feel free to disagree.

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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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CannaMD

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

SHORT ANSWER: In November 2016, the Florida Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative (known as Amendment 2 ) legalized medical marijuana treatment in Florida. In March, 2016, State Bill 307 expanded access to full-strength medical marijuana to terminally ill patients who were determined by two doctors to have less than a year to live.

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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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Veriheal

AUGUST 19, 2022

In February 2021, a lawsuit was filed against the DEA for prohibiting access for others aside from the University of Mississippi to cultivate cannabis for research purposes. The DEA stated that they were starting the process of approving additional cannabis cultivators back in 2016.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 8, 2022

Later that year, Doblin sued the DEA for the first time. submitted his first DEA application to manufacture marijuana for use in medical research. The MDMA Therapy Training Program was created to train the next generation of psychedelic therapists. Lyle Craker, Ph.D., Reddit awarded $82,765.95 MAPS Founder Rick Doblin, Ph.D.,

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The second argument is based on a DEA interim final rule on the topic of synthetic THC. Products containing delta-8 THC derived from hemp should be regulated by a state’s hemp program provided that they contain no more than the legal limit of delta-9 THC (currently 0.3%). Available at: [link]. CannabisTech.com. Available at: [link].

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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. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Hemp Production Program, removing hemp from the Controlled Substances Act.

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SpeedWeed

APRIL 1, 2021

Fried remembers the debate, featuring a then- High Times editor and a DEA agent, marking the first substantive cannabis conversation during her time at school. . Since 2014, the state has made incremental progress, first legalizing CBD oil, then expanding its medical program in 2016.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 25, 2019

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. 18, 2016 , 130 Stat. 7, 2016 , 130 Stat. 1251 et seq.), the Ocean Dumping Act ( 33 U.S.C. 502, Oct.

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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. It’s been nearly three years since the DEA announced its revolutionary cultivator program. The only problem is, the program doesn’t actually exist.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 30, 2019

The informed patients, cannabis industry employees, and clinicians find it equally difficult to keep updated on Florida’s latest medical marijuana program news and changes. . Cannabis is not a “gateway” drug, according to the ASA and the DEA’s own statements cited in the August 2016 U.S. landscape. .

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SMPL

MAY 6, 2020

The Obama Administration signed legislation late in 2016 that would expand the number of facilities growing marijuana for research, but the Drug Enforcement Agency hasn’t granted any licenses four years later. Furthermore, both NIDA and DEA have split oversight responsibilities of federally licensed marijuana spanning back several decades.

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Veriheal

OCTOBER 23, 2020

House Republicans supported her proposal to defund the DEA and divert those funds to opioid treatment programs. . Virginia’s medical cannabis program model is a little different from other states that have legalized . Maine legalized adult use of cannabis way back in 2016 and is just now opening retail sites. .

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Veriheal

OCTOBER 23, 2020

House Republicans supported her proposal to defund the DEA and divert those funds to opioid treatment programs. . Virginia’s medical cannabis program model is a little different from other states that have legalized . Maine legalized adult use of cannabis way back in 2016 and is just now opening retail sites. .

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The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) objected to including cannabis banking in federal relief programs. 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. The DEA hemp rule continued its unpopularity.

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