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DEA Seizes 4M Marijuana Plants, Less Arrests in ’19

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Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) made far fewer cannabis-related arrests in 2019 than in previous years. Let’s take a closer look at what DEA data reveals. Per the DEA’s Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program (DCESP) , a whopping 4,003,194 cannabis plants were seized and destroyed in 2019.

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The Week in Weed: August 20, 2019

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A researcher filed suit against the DEA, claiming the cannabis she was required to use in her work was “sub-par.” In other federal news, the DEA confirmed that “hemp plants and cannabidiol (CBD) preparations at or below the 0.3 Who says you can’t fight city hall? He also favors legalizing cannabis.

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DEA Faces Lawsuit For Denying End of Life Patients the Right to Try Psychedelics Therapy

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The Right to Try Act or the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act was signed into law on May 30th, 2019, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. The lawsuit came after the DEA denied their application to utilize a synthetic form of psilocybin under the RTT laws.

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The Year in Weed: 2019 Edition

The Blunt Truth

Welcome to The Week in Weed’s look back at the news of 2019; whether the year has flown by or seemed to last forever, it’s (almost) over now. Without further ado, here’s a look at the stories that grabbed our attention in 2019. We predicted (correctly – see below) the Senate’s disinterest here.

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The Year in Weed: 2020 Edition

The Blunt Truth

” Little did I know in December 2019 just how true that would turn out to be. Ideas ranged from legalization on day one (Sanders) to decriminalization and expungement (Bloomberg). Virginia decriminalized marijuana. The DEA released an interim hemp rule that the industry hated. Neither of them did.

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A Strategy for Rescheduling Psilocybin

Canna Law Blog

To acknowledge its impressive safety record and potential for treating depression more effectively than existing therapies, the Food and Drug Administration designated psilocybin a breakthrough therapy in 2018 and 2019 for treating drug-resistant depression and major depressive disorder. That power is typically delegated to the DEA.

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Colorado Could Legalize Psychedelics This November

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The city of Denver, Colorado, decriminalized the possession and use of psilocybin in 2019—the first U.S. The state of Oregon has seen great success with a similar bill that passed there in 2020, which decriminalized the personal possession and use of all drugs, including psychedelics. city to do so.