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DEA Report: Federal Cannabis Arrests Drop Again.

Cannabis Law Report

While there were still 2,576 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) marijuana arrests in fiscal year 2020, cannabis busts have dropped an average of 11 percent each year since 2010, when DEA made 8,215 such arrests.

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DEA finally ends fed monopoly on schwaggy research-grade cannabis

SpeedWeed

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) quietly made an announcement that’s expected to have a profound and long-lasting impact on cannabis research and development in the United States. For years, NIDA and the DEA have promised to open up the sourcing of federally-approved research cannabis. DEA finally relents.

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According To DEA Data Do You Know Which State Grows The Most Illegal Cannabis ?

Cannabis Law Report

You might think it’s California,but actually it is …… According to recently published DEA data about illegal grows it is Kentucky, where both recreational and medical marijuana are still illegal. The DEA confiscated over 1.8 Across the United States, the DEA seized 2.82 million plants in 2017.

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New Hemp Testing Guidelines Make Meeting 0.3% THC Limit Difficult

Medicinal Genomics

Another potential headache for farmers is that analytical laboratories must be registered with the DEA in order to perform compliance testing. No existing cannabis labs are registered with the DEA because they handle a schedule 1 substance, which violates federal law. and seize all the testing samples.

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CBD: Everything You Need to Know

CannaMD

Drugs, substances, and certain chemicals used to make drugs are classified into five categories (known as schedules ) depending on the Department of Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)’s definition of the drug’s acceptable medical use and abuse/dependency potential. CBD Scheduling Rule Change. But the government is clear.

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What is THC-O-Acetate? Is it safe?

The Cannigma

All tetrahydrocannabinol molecules are on the DEA Controlled Substances list , which means it is considered illegal. They´re simply not yet illegal and waiting to be explicitly classed as an illegal substance, just as was the case with synthetic cannabinoids in the 2010, which were commonly sold as “Spice”. THC-O in the US.

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Scientists Think the Synthetic Cannabinoids in Sativex Can Beat Brain Cancer

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Sativex (sold as nabiximols or Epidiolex in the United States) is manufactured by British company GW Pharmaceuticals, which received full federal approval in its home country for the drug back in 2010 for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. For years, such studies were largely blocked by prohibition-committed government entities. .