2018 DEA Policy 
Canna Law Blog
JUNE 24, 2025
drug policy with its international treaty obligations—specifically, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (Single Convention). Yes, the DEA would need to do some light follow-up rulemaking—but that’s been done before , and the Office of Legal Counsel has already signed off on it. No act of Congress. No HHS review. Just a signature.
Project CBD
MARCH 7, 2025
Its not nice to fool Mother Nature Sloppy language in the 2018 US Farm Bill inadvertently opened this Pandoras box of unregulated psychoactive designer compounds by legalizing cannabinoids other than Delta-9 THC that were derived from hemp as defined by federal law that is, cannabis with under 0.3 percent THC. federal THC limit.
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Canna Law Blog
JUNE 2, 2025
Small Business Administration (SBA) has quietly reintroduced a policy that effectively disqualifies most of them from critical federal loan programs. SBA policy timeline: A whiplash-inducing history The SBAs latest update to its 7(a) and 504 loan programs represents a return to the more restrictive, 2020 policy.
NORML
APRIL 14, 2020
According to figures published in the DEA’s Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Statistical Report , the agency and its law enforcement partners confiscated an estimated four million marijuana plants in 2019 – up from 2.8 million in 2018. In 2011, for instance, the DEA seized over 8.7
NORML
JANUARY 17, 2019
As the result of a lawsuit, DEA Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner in 2007 ruled that expanding the pool of federally licensed providers would be “in the public interest.” A similar version of this bill was passed in the House Judiciary Committee in 2018 yet was not taken up by the full chamber.
Canna Law Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Some states have regulated Hemp CBD despite the FDA’s slow movement, others are locked into the FDA’s policy, banning Hemp CBD in foods and dietary supplements. A positive statement like this from Dr. Hahn, made directly to the NASDA is likely to have ripple effects on enforcement policies across the state. Conclusion.
Canna Law Blog
MARCH 30, 2019
As we previously discussed , thus far, the FDA has only adopted informal, non-binding guidelines as its primary method of policy making for CBD as they afford the agency more flexibility. I think the prevailing view is that the plain language of the statute [the Farm Bill] intended for that, but I’m not sure that DEA has done that yet.
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