Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 31, 2020

WASHINGTON – DEA Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced the publication of the 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment, which outlines the threats posed to the United States by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs. Approximately 192 people died every day from drug poisoning in 2017.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 3, 2019

Circuit Court of Appeals that the DEA’s refusal to reschedule cannabis damaged their health and that the federal agency should remove cannabis from Schedule 1. An earlier federal court, however, dismissed the case in 2017, asserting that the plaintiffs hadn’t yet exhausted all the administrative avenues to changing marijuana’s status.

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WeedAdvisor

JUNE 1, 2019

The court, citing concerns over marijuana’s Schedule I status and its impact on medical users who need it most, essentially issued an ultimatum to the DEA. Like a child who does not want to clean his or her room, the DEA simply refuses to take any major action, despite the whirlwind of reforms surrounding them on a daily basis.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

DEA Announces Steps Necessary to Improve Access to Marijuana Research. The DEA is providing notice of pending applications from entities applying to be registered to manufacture marijuana for researchers. percent delta-9 THC threshold, is not a controlled substance, and a DEA registration is not required to grow or research it.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

You might think it’s California,but actually it is …… According to recently published DEA data about illegal grows it is Kentucky, where both recreational and medical marijuana are still illegal. The DEA confiscated over 1.8 Across the United States, the DEA seized 2.82 million plants in 2017.

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Americans for Safe Access

JUNE 6, 2019

In July 2017, four medical cannabis patients joined other advocates in filing a lawsuit against the federal government in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to reschedule cannabis, before filing suit. District Court for the Second District of New York. The plaintiffs in the case (originally Washington v.

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As I’m sure all of our readers are aware, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) apparently made a recommendation to DEA to move cannabis to Schedule III of the CSA recently. I say “apparently” because HHS’s letter to DEA is redacted to the point of uselessness.

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Marijuana Lawyer Blog

JANUARY 12, 2019

As our Los Angeles marijuana patient attorneys can explain, the crux of the argument by plaintiffs of the claim, first filed in 2017, is that the designation ignores the merits of the drug for medicinal purposes. Defendants are acting-Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, the acting director of the DEA and the federal government.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 26, 2023

This USDA study , figure 2, page 4, shows states reporting nearly 30,000 total hemp acres “licensed or approved” for cultivation in 2017. The study with 2017 data contains a disclaimer that “not all States reported data on the same basis.” Also, the 2017 data includes acreage for “approved” and not exclusively “cultivated”, hemp.

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Americans for Safe Access

OCTOBER 17, 2017

On October 15, 2017, the Washington Post and 60 Minutes released a scathing report on the pharmaceutical industry’s influence of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 7, 2020

In its performance budget submission to Congress for fiscal year 2021, DEA gave an overview of its enforcement efforts and made predictions about future trends. DEA Admits State-Level Marijuana Legalization Reduces Illegal Market Demand. The acknowledgement seems to be two-parted. dea_cj_fy_2021_03062020.

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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. In 2017, FDA granted a request for Breakthrough Therapy designation for MDMA to treat PTSD. DEA and the Controlled Substances Act. Under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, DEA classifies drugs into one of five schedules.

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2020

The outfit actually began in response to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) scheduling MDMA, more or less, which happened on an “emergency” basis in 1985 (you can view MAPS’ impressive archive and play-by-play on all of that here ). The drug caught DEA’s attention when recreational use proliferated. Just kidding!

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2020

The outfit actually began in response to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) scheduling MDMA, more or less, which happened on an “emergency” basis in 1985 (you can view MAPS’ impressive archive and play-by-play on all of that here ). The drug caught DEA’s attention when recreational use proliferated. Just kidding!

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

The organization was in the sights of the Federal Security Directorate of Mexico, which was responsible for alerting the CIA about the movements of the barracks, with this procedure, a conflict arose that ended with the death of “Kiki”, a DEA agent who was kidnapped and tortured for belonging to the investigation.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Last week, authorities in Nevada, along with an impressive backup of national law enforcers, raided what they called the largest illegal marijuana grow in Douglas County history, and perhaps one of the largest ever to be discovered in the state, which legalized adult-use cannabis in 2017.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 21, 2021

Fentanyl itself is amazingly effective at stopping breathing in individuals: “Two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal depending on a person’s body size, tolerance and past usage,” the DEA says , but the organization also says that “ no deaths from overdose of marijuana have been reported.” Even the DEA admits it.

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SpeedWeed

AUGUST 16, 2021

He owned and operated Eddy’s Medicinal Gardens and Multi-Denominational Chapel of Cannabis and Rastafari, which was raided by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials on August 18, 2004—the 17th anniversary of which is just days away. I think that amount of time is excessive, but it’s not up to me,” she said in court.

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FloridaMarijuana.net

JULY 8, 2018

The study has received full approval from the FDA, DEA, and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). The study began in January 2017 at Scottsdale Research Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.”. On December 17, 2014, MAPS was awarded a $2 million grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to complete the study.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

According to court documents, from 2017 through November 2019, Joseph Ruis, 56, was the leader of a Southern California-based wholesale spice manufacturing and distribution operation, along with co-defendants and sisters Kimberly Drumm, 52, and Bonnie Turner, 50, of Olive Branch, Mississippi. Postal Inspection Service; and Robert P.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 23, 2020

It was called the “Cuban cigar of the marijuana world” by a DEA agent in 1967 and even compared with French wine. Back then, Thai cannabis, best known in the form of the “Thai stick”, was praised for its excellent quality and considered one of the finest and strongest cannabis in the world. in the 1970. Healthcare expenditure 2018.

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Cannabis Info

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

To fight its war on inanimate objects Washington created the Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA, and gave it jurisdiction to operate overseas. There are DEA outposts in Bogotá, Kabul, Mexico City, Bangkok and all around the world. Anywhere drugs may be, the DEA’s valiant agents will sniff them out. criminal justice system.

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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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The Joint Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Believe it or not, you actually need a license to do meaningful research on marijuana due to the fact that the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has limited its access. The DEA feels that marijuana, being a schedule I drug, could be misused like other drugs within that category and could be dangerous.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Show More According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Schedule I drugs have “no currently accepted medical use in the United States, a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision, and a high potential for abuse.” In 2017, the FDA designated MDMA a breakthrough therapy for PTSD. Johnson & Roland R.

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Cannabis Info

JUNE 8, 2019

And of those prescriptions, 17,029 people overdosed in 2017. Anslinger was appointed to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (which later became the DEA) in the 1930’s, leading to his dedicated work in criminalizing all drugs?—?particularly Allthough Cannabis has been illegal since the war on drugs began, there has been 223.7

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The Dallas Morning News reports, “Jamie Balagia was found guilty of wire fraud, obstruction and other charges after a two-week trial in connection with his representation of Colombian drug traffickers” First up here are our two reports on him from 2017. million from Colombian clients. by getting them to cooperate.

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WeedAdvisor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

A 2017 study examined 84 products from 31 different brands and found that 70% of these items were mislabeled. The DEA flat-out stated that they have bigger priorities, focusing instead on deadlier drugs like methamphetamine. Large-Scale Mislabeling. . Admittedly, the chances of falling prey to spiked CBD are low. Not a Priority. .

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Industrial Hemp Commission adopted temporary rules for review in February 2017; these were approved by the Rules Review Commission of the Office of Administrative Hearings. The law was modified in 2016 in House Bill 992. Currently, NCDA is operating under the 2014 Farm Bill, not the 2018 Farm Bill.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 15, 2021

The Drug Policy Alliance has long advocated for drug decriminalization as a critical first step in ending the drug war, including in its 2017 report, It’s Time for the U.S. to Decriminalize Drug Use and Possession. As a nurse, I’ve watched Black families criminalized for heroin use while white families are treated for opioid use.

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CannaMD

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This stems from the fact that despite the ongoing legalization of both recreational and medical marijuana at the state level, cannabis is still classified as a Schedule I substance by the DEA, along with substances such as heroin, cocaine, opioids and methamphetamine.

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Veriheal

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Supreme Court dismisses a case filed by medical patients in 2017 that the Schedule 1 label for cannabis is unconstitutional. NFL player Marvin Washington and many medical cannabis patients filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Jeff Sessions back in 2017 . Video Transcript. But the question is… who will reap the benefits?

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The Joint Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Singh pleaded guilty in 2017 to federal charges he sold a smokable “potpourri” that he knew contained synthetic marijuana. A 2017 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found 70% of CBD products were mislabeled. These are going to be bigger priorities on enforcement,” DEA spokeswoman Mary Brandenberger said.

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The Herb Collective

JUNE 25, 2018

"Every year, about 98% of all of the grass removed by the DEA's "Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program" is really hemp." Source: Post independent) So, what's in store for the cannabis industry in 2017? The remaining $1.1 billion was spent on abuse and addiction studies. Source: Cannabisser) 16.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

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%. While the DEA is now officially out of the hemp regulation business, the U.S. The FDA’s position on CBD is unsettled and unsupported by law.

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Cannabis Cheri

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As ruled by DEA Administrative Judge Francis Young after an exhaustive two-year investigation, “marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.”. This post was originally published in 2017. More Important Info About Smoking Marijuana: How Long Do You Need to Hold a Hit of Marijuana?

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Cannabis Info

MARCH 21, 2019

billion in 2017, and the average deal size stood above $23 million. have legalized cannabis for either recreational or medical uses, allowing companies to thrive, the plant is still illegal on a Federal level – classified as a Schedule I drug by the DEA. billion in 2018 — up from roughly $3.5 exchanges.

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