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DEA Promises Progress on Federal Cultivation Applications, But Provides No Timetable for Action

NORML

The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has once again pledged to take action to better facilitate clinical cannabis research. In 2016, the DEA similarly announced the adoption of new rules to expand to supply of research-grade cannabis, but failed to take any further action.

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DEA Admits Seeds “are generally uncontrolled and legal, regardless of how much THC might end up being produced in buds if those seeds were cultivated.”

Cannabis Law Report

Marijuana might be federally prohibited, but the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has effectively acknowledged that the plant’s seeds are generally uncontrolled and legal, regardless of how much THC might end up being produced in buds if those seeds were cultivated. percent THC. percent delta-9 THC. “In

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‘The most meaningful cannabis reform in decades’: Experts weigh in on new DEA rules

The Cannigma

All that is about to change, thanks to a change at the DEA , which cultivators and industry experts say will be monumental for cannabis research, medical marijuana patients, and potentially the broader legal status of the plant itself. “We BRC) told The Cannigma this week. Junk’ cannabis ‘ill-suited for clinical trials’.

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DEA Attempts To Regulate CBD Processing

Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Law Group Blog

Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) published an interim final rule surrounding hemp and hemp derivatives. In fact, most state departments of agriculture allowing for hemp cultivation under the 2014 Farm Bill expressly refused to regulate hemp processing. By: Nabil Rodriguez. Last week on Thursday August 20, 2020, the U.S.

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U.S. Cannabis Legalization Update: Who’s Still Waiting and Who May Legalize

Veriheal

It prohibits cannabis possession, use, purchase, sale, or cultivation, whether for recreation or medical purposes. In 2015, Idaho state legalized CBD with a THC concentration of less than 3%. Indiana Indiana prohibits the possession, use, purchase, sale, or cultivation of marijuana for both medical and recreational purposes.

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Studies Dispel the Myth That Cannabis is a Performance Enhancing Drug

Veriheal

The authors of a 1996 paper, titled “ Performance-Enhancing Drugs, Fair Competition, and Olympic Sport, ” were cited in the WADA study, which claimed that “cannabis could be performance enhancing in sports that require greater concentration.”. Fast forward to 2019 and the DEA unveiled eagerly anticipated plans for cannabis research.

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USA: Multi-state weed trafficking ring busted in Haskell County

Cannabis Law Report

Drug Enforcement Administration-McAlester Resident Office and DEA Denver. The investigation was initiated by the DEA Denver office’s “Front Range Task Force” after a Chinese money laundering organization was identified that sold black market marijuana “to fund and further their criminal activities,” the sheriff office stated.

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