article thumbnail

DEA: Marijuana Plant Seizures Spike, Arrests Fall in 2019

NORML

According to figures published in the DEA’s Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Statistical Report , the agency and its law enforcement partners confiscated an estimated four million marijuana plants in 2019 – up from 2.8 million in 2018. In 2011, for instance, the DEA seized over 8.7

DEA 302
article thumbnail

DEA Report: Fewer Marijuana Seizures, But More Arrests In 2018

NORML

Federal agents seized fewer total marijuana plants in 2018, but made more arrests for cannabis-related offenses, according to annual data compiled by the US Drug Enforcement Administration. million marijuana plants nationwide in 2018. million marijuana plants nationwide in 2018. million in 2018. million in 2017 to 1.4

DEA 184
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Report: Federal Marijuana Prosecutions Declining

NORML

Federal prosecutions for marijuana-related crimes fell significantly from September 30, 2018 to September 30, 2019, according to a recently released report from Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. The 2019 end-of-year report finds that the number of federal defendants charged with cannabis-associated crimes declined by 28 percent.

DEA 253
article thumbnail

Intoxicating Hemp Swindle

Project CBD

Its not nice to fool Mother Nature Sloppy language in the 2018 US Farm Bill inadvertently opened this Pandoras box of unregulated psychoactive designer compounds by legalizing cannabinoids other than Delta-9 THC that were derived from hemp as defined by federal law that is, cannabis with under 0.3 percent THC. federal THC limit.

Hemp 214
article thumbnail

Legislation To Produce And Research Cannabis Introduced

NORML

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.” A similar version of this bill was passed in the House Judiciary Committee in 2018 yet was not taken up by the full chamber.

article thumbnail

Hemp Industry Members File Lawsuit Against DEA, Challenging Rule That Could Have Far-reaching Consequences

Cannabis Law Report

Petition asks federal appeals court to review a rule the DEA issued last month, arguing the agency exceeded its authority and violated the 2018 farm … Read More. The post Hemp Industry Members File Lawsuit Against DEA, Challenging Rule That Could Have Far-reaching Consequences first appeared on Cannabis Law Report.

DEA 98
article thumbnail

THCO is a Controlled Substance: DEA

Cannabis Life Network

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says Delta-8 and -9 THCO are controlled substances, even when derived from hemp. The DEA said that Delta-8 and -9 THCO “do not occur naturally in the cannabis plant and can only be obtained synthetically, and therefore do not fall under the definition of hemp.”

DEA 76