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NORML: DEA Reports Significant Uptick in Marijuana-Related Seizures, Arrests

Cannabis Law Report

According to figures published in the DEA’s Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program Statistical Report, agents and their partners confiscated approximately 5.53 million plants via its domestic eradication program. Federal law enforcement agents and their partners seized over 5.5 million plants were confiscated).

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Vicente Sederberg LLP Attorney Shane Pennington Elected to International Cannabis Bar Association Board of Directors

Cannabis Law Report

Pennington, who focuses on federal appeals and regulatory issues, is co-counsel on several high-profile cases against the DEA regarding cannabis research, hemp, and psychedelics. Circuit), a pending petition for review of DEA’s August 2020 Interim Final Rule purportedly implementing the 2018 Farm Bill’s amendments to the CSA.

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Veriheal’s Innovation in Cannabis Scholarship 2020 Winners

Veriheal

Program between St. About Sinibaldo: Sinibaldo is an aspiring healthcare professional and a biomedical researcher in the Medical Scientist Training Program (M.D./Ph.D.) About Nishtha: Nishtha is pursuing neurology to become a physician-scientist in honor of her grandmother Nani who suffered from Alzheimer’s.

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AAFP ( American Academy of Family Physicians) Releases Marijuana, Cannabinoids Position Paper

Cannabis Law Report

According to the 2018 National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Monitoring the Future Survey (MTF), daily, past month, past year, and lifetime marijuana use among 8 th graders has declined, and remained unchanged in 10 th and 12 th graders, when compared to the 2013 MTF survey. and 2.3%, respectively. and 2.3%, respectively.

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Minorities in cannabis, with Steven Philpott Jr.

The Cannigma

We always have a nice little tidbit when we’re all about advocacy and access to cannabis for all. Then CBD popped up in 2018 with the Farm Bill, right? So, we are partnering with the Harrington Institute to provide two different cohorts here in Chicago, program we have going on. Let’s listen to Steven.

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The Week in Weed: May 15, 2020

The Blunt Truth

Maine made changes to their marijuana program. Although NORML and other advocacy groups asked that state-legal marijuana businesses gain access to this relief, that language did not make it into the legislation. This move comes amidst an investigation into the medical marijuana program. SBA funds, however, are not.

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State Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried Pushes Florida On Further Cannabis Reform • High Times

SpeedWeed

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.