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Cannabis Litigation: Second Circuit Could Force DEA to Re- or Deschedule Marijuana

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Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) when it comes to DEA’s handling of petitions to remove marijuana from the list of most dangerous drugs. Here’s what John Erlichman, a key aid to then-President Nixon, told Harper’s Magazine in 2016: You want to know what this was really all about? You understand what I’m saying?

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

Cannabis Law Report

That simply is not true. 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.

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Guest Post: Is CBD Legal? Federal & State Laws [2019]

Cannabis Law Report

With so much random information being thrown around the internet, it can be very difficult to differentiate what is true and what is false. Although the DEA refuses to remove marijuana from the schedule 1 list, the Farm Bill is considered to be the most important victory in the history of U.S. AUTHOR: Felipe Rivera.

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McGuire Woods: In the Weeds: New Laws for 2022, Kansas Weighs Delta-8, Maine Appeals Dispensary Ruling, Nevada Approves Lounges

Cannabis Law Report

Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) suggesting that cannabinoids synthetically produced from non-cannabis materials, including delta-8 THC, are controlled under the federal Controlled Substances Act as a “tetrahydrocannabinol.” total tetrahydrocannabinols (THC).”. 16 In the Weeds article) from the U.S.

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Marijuana as Schedule III: Woe is Me?

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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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The Year in Weed: 2020 Edition

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” Little did I know in December 2019 just how true that would turn out to be. 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.

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CBD Oracle Lab Study Shows Some Delta-8 Products Are 7700% Over the Legal Delta-9 THC Limit

Cannabis Law Report

This is true for psychosis and schizophrenia, which we’ll speak about in more detail in a moment, but as pointed out by doctors Robert Gabrys and Amy Porath in a report for the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction , cannabis use before 16 or 17 is “one of the strongest predictors of cognitive impairment.”. Available at: [link].

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