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What Could Rescheduling Mean for Medical Cannabis Patients?

Canna Care Docs

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will move to reclassify cannabis — a historic shift that could have wide ripple effects across the country. Understanding current drug scheduling for cannabis The DEA classifies drugs, substances, and certain chemicals used to make drugs into five distinct categories or “schedules.”

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One Signature Could Remove Marijuana From Schedule I Tomorrow

Canna Law Blog

drug policy with its international treaty obligations—specifically, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (Single Convention). This isn’t legal speculation; it’s written into the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) itself. That’s an immediate tax win for state-legal businesses. Just a signature. Under 21 U.S.C. §

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Intoxicating Hemp Swindle

Project CBD

Its provocative kicker states: Much of whats sold as hemp today isnt hemp at all its a mix of synthetic intoxicants and illicit THC masquerading as a legal, natural product. There’s also THCP, THCO, HHC, and others that can’t be made from CBD starter material and thus are outside the legal definition of “hemp.”

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Number of Federal Offenders Charged with Marijuana Trafficking Hits Record Low

NORML

"Although Congress has failed to amend federal cannabis laws to explicitly recognize state-legal cannabis markets, the attitudes and priorities of federal law enforcement agents and prosecutors have clearly shifted in a manner that reflects their reality.

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America’s Missed Opportunity in the Global Marijuana Market

Canna Law Blog

Much of it was driven by Germanys newly formed government keeping its quasi-legalization policy intact, even if adult-use trials remain uncertain. Unfortunately, state-legal U.S. As I discussed in The Hidden Potential Winners of Marijuana Rescheduling: DEA-Registered Bulk Manufacturers , U.S. In contrast, the U.S.

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Locked Out: SBA’s New Lending Policy Targets Hemp and Marijuana-Adjacent Businesses

Canna Law Blog

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.

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Is There a Method to the Mayhem? The Stock Market and a Potential Cannabis Collapse

Canna Law Blog

As economists overwhelmingly question the Trump Administrations tariff policy , one has to wonder if there is a deeper strategy behind his seemingly chaotic moves? cannabis sector has long been caught in limbo: legal in most states, but still a Schedule I substance federally. Marijuana will be federally legalized at some point.

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