Project CBD

MARCH 7, 2025

In response to its growing popularity, the DEA announced in 2016 that kratom would be placed in the restrictive Schedule I along with cannabis. However, the following year the DEA put off its decision pending further public commentary. Yet its advocates tout its ability to help wean users off opioids.

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NORML

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Justices for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the petition following a filing by DEA in the Federal Register stating that the agency “intends to promulgate regulations” to review several dozen federal cultivation applications.

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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.” The agency ultimately rejected her decision.

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NORML

MARCH 1, 2019

In August 2016, the US Drug Enforcement Administration announced in the US Federal Register that the agency was “adopting a new policy that is designed to increase the number of entities registered under the Controlled Substances Act to grow (manufacture) marijuana to supply legitimate researchers in the United States.”

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Canna Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2019

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) when it comes to DEA’s handling of petitions to remove marijuana from the list of most dangerous drugs. Here’s what John Erlichman, a key aid to then-President Nixon, told Harper’s Magazine in 2016: You want to know what this was really all about? You understand what I’m saying?

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NORML

JULY 8, 2021

That’s down 67 percent since 2016, and over 80 percent since 2012 – when Colorado and Washington became the first two states to legalize and regulate the adult-use marijuana market. Just over 1,000 people were sentenced federally in 2020 for violating marijuana trafficking laws.

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WeedAdvisor

AUGUST 28, 2019

The applications were submitted as far back as 2016. Despite a 90-day deadline for review, the DEA ignored this cut-off and simply sat on the applications for three years. This likely would have been longer, but the DEA had not anticipated a legal threat to force some action. Dozens of Applications”. .

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SpeedWeed

MAY 24, 2021

The Drug Enforcement Administration made a milestone announcement earlier this month with the news that the DEA will begin granting marijuana cultivation licenses to various third-party applicants, significantly expanding medical and scientific cannabis research in the United States.

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The Blunt Truth

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Hemp growers are unhappy over the DEA’s hemp rule. Maine legalized recreational cannabis in 2016. dea hemp rule. The Hemp Industries Association and RE Botanicals are back in court, still unhappy over the DEA’s interim final rule on hemp. New Zealand will vote on recreational cannabis on Saturday.

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SpeedWeed

MAY 22, 2021

After years of delays, legal challenges, and obfuscation, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) finally announced that it would begin evaluating applications for federally-licensed research cannabis cultivators. . In 2019, a federal judge forced the DEA to explain its inaction.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to cultivate marijuana for research purposes. In 2016, Dr. Sue Sisley first applied to grow cannabis for research purposes when the Obama administration announced a plan to allow other growers to provide cannabis to researchers. The DEA dragged their feet on this plan for years, so lawsuits were filed.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

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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Freedom Leaf

OCTOBER 15, 2018

On September 28, the DEA designated Epidiolex —a plant-based CBD pharmaceutical manufactured by the UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals—a Schedule V drug in the government’s list of controlled substances. schedules were created by the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in 1970 and are interpreted and enforced by the DEA.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The DEA’s announcement signals the “beginning of the end” of federal marijuana prohibition, as the policy change allows federal agencies to evaluate and assess the medical use and abuse potential of marijuana with (limited) political interference. BY EMILY BURNS, GREEN LIGHT LAW GROUP —.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2016, the Agency announced that it would expand the pool of federally licensed growers beyond just the University of Mississippi (which was initially granted a federal cannabis cultivation license in 1968). The full text of S. 253 is online here. Additional information is available from NORML here.

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Veriheal

JULY 29, 2021

The DEA’s push to review cannabis research applications has been anticipated for quite some time. In 2016, the Agency revealed that it would start accepting applications from hopeful growers. Fast forward to 2019 and the DEA unveiled eagerly anticipated plans for cannabis research.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 18, 2019

Sacramento New & Review have detailed the DEA, FBI and IRS investigations and written a piece well worth reading if you want to understand how difficult it is going to be to dig out the entrenched black sector of cannabis in California. It was September 14, 2016.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The law was modified in 2016 in House Bill 992. The Commission is also concerned about “inevitable delays in laboratory results because of high sample volumes” which are exacerbated by the interim hemp rules’ requirement that labs testing hemp to obtain DEA registration.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

1, 2017, following a 2016 ballot measure. Department of Agriculture) website and look at the laboratories that the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) has approved as being appropriate for analysis of hemp crops,” Dr. Boothe said. Nevada voters approved medical marijuana for people by ballot initiative in 2000.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 9, 2021

Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”). Some physicians and therapists have argued that the Right to Try Act permits them to administer psilocybin to terminally ill patients (since studies are well past the Phase 1 stage), but the DEA has met this with resistance given psilocybin’s status as a Schedule I drug. AIMS Institute, PLLC.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Not long ago we wrote about a decision by the Second Circuit that may force the DEA to re- or deschedule marijuana after writing about the lawsuit when it was first filed last year. In 2016, the Albuquerque Public Schools (“APS”) informed Mother that Student could not receive cannabis oil on school grounds.

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The Herb Collective

JUNE 25, 2018

According to Trend Statistics, there are over 2,604,079 medical marijuana patients in 2016, with 19.8 "Every year, about 98% of all of the grass removed by the DEA's "Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program" is really hemp." In 2016, sales of marijuana totaled $6.7 Not all drugs have been approved.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 8, 2021

“Accordingly, no state has the jurisdiction to legalize recreational use of marijuana without Congressionally enacted reform or the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) taking administrative action to reschedule it,” he wrote. “As

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 1, 2019

The following are highlights of this historic agreement: SIVA will exclusively handle the rewrite of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), with limited involvement allowed from the different federal agencies, including the FDA, DEA, etc. And in 2016 he comes in at 3:22 on this video. Their erstwhile leader is to be found on Linked in.

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United Patients Group

APRIL 3, 2023

Epidiolex, an FDA-approved medication containing CBD (cannabidiol), has been listed as Schedule 5 by the DEA since June 25th, 2019. For example, if you live in California where Proposition 64 was passed by voters in 2016 legalizing recreational use of marijuana, no recommendation as long as the patient is 21 years of age and older.

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Veriheal

OCTOBER 23, 2020

House Republicans supported her proposal to defund the DEA and divert those funds to opioid treatment programs. . Maine legalized adult use of cannabis way back in 2016 and is just now opening retail sites. . Sales were expected earlier this year, but due to the pandemic, there were even more delays. .

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Veriheal

OCTOBER 23, 2020

House Republicans supported her proposal to defund the DEA and divert those funds to opioid treatment programs. . Maine legalized adult use of cannabis way back in 2016 and is just now opening retail sites. . Sales were expected earlier this year, but due to the pandemic, there were even more delays. .

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 8, 2022

Later that year, Doblin sued the DEA for the first time. submitted his first DEA application to manufacture marijuana for use in medical research. To celebrate this, we invite you to take a trip down memory lane and review highlights from every year of our history. Lyle Craker, Ph.D., Reddit awarded $82,765.95

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The Blunt Truth

JUNE 6, 2019

The Blunt Truth started in February 2016, with the slightly crazy idea that a BigLaw firm could talk about marijuana on a regular basis. Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. F irst, a point of personal pride. As of this week, we’ve reached our 300th post.

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Veriheal

AUGUST 19, 2022

In February 2021, a lawsuit was filed against the DEA for prohibiting access for others aside from the University of Mississippi to cultivate cannabis for research purposes. The DEA stated that they were starting the process of approving additional cannabis cultivators back in 2016.

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CannaMD

MAY 6, 2020

In practice, the chances of feds or the DEA sitting at the border waiting to catch someone – that’s just not happening. For more information, see: The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2016. As attorney Allison Malsbury explains: From a legal perspective, it’s very cut and dried. Possession Limit: 2.5

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SpeedWeed

JULY 9, 2021

64 in November 2016. . A DEA report released in March said that the agency is seizing about 80 percent less cannabis at the US-Mexican border as compared to 2013. The bust comes at a time when California is attempting to reckon with illegal cannabis businesses, which continue to thrive nearly five years after voters authorized Prop.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 21, 2019

Although the DEA refuses to remove marijuana from the schedule 1 list, the Farm Bill is considered to be the most important victory in the history of U.S. In 2016, Tennessee legalized the use of CBD containing no more than 0.9% This does not however, mean that all CBD products are now legal.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Balagia’s initial defense attorney, Daphne Silverman, said in court filings that Morgan was working for the DEA as a secret informant whose job it was to lure Colombian fugitives to the U.S. agencies like the FBI, DEA and Homeland Security Investigations, according to court documents. by getting them to cooperate.

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SpeedWeed

APRIL 1, 2021

Fried remembers the debate, featuring a then- High Times editor and a DEA agent, marking the first substantive cannabis conversation during her time at school. . Since 2014, the state has made incremental progress, first legalizing CBD oil, then expanding its medical program in 2016.

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SMPL

AUGUST 14, 2019

ABA noted that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced in 2016 that it is accepting applications for additional cannabis manufacturers, which could bolster research, for example. One area that could be quickly improved is in the sourcing of research-grade marijuana.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) suggesting that cannabinoids synthetically produced from non-cannabis materials, including delta-8 THC, are controlled under the federal Controlled Substances Act as a “tetrahydrocannabinol.” total tetrahydrocannabinols (THC).”. 16 In the Weeds article) from the U.S.

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