NORML
APRIL 8, 2020
Under existing regulations, the agency only licenses one facility — the University of Mississippi — to cultivate cannabis for use in FDA-approved clinical trials. To date, however, the DEA has failed to either affirm or reject any of the more than 30 applications it has received.
Americans for Safe Access
JUNE 2, 2020
On March 23, DEA published a proposed rulemaking —“Controls to Enhance the Cultivation of Marihuana for Research in the United States”—in the Federal Register (85 FR 16292), involving who can grow cannabis in bulk for research purposes.
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NORML
JANUARY 17, 2019
A bipartisan coalition of House lawmakers has introduced The Medical Cannabis Research Act of 2019 ( HR 601 ), to facilitate federally-approved clinical trials involving cannabis. Click here to send a message to your Representative and urge them to support the measure. . The agency ultimately rejected her decision.
NORML
MARCH 1, 2019
” Last year, however, former DEA director Robert Patterson testified to Congress that the agency believed that approving additional applicants would likely violate international anti-drug treaties. Patterson said that DEA could not move forward granting any new applications until the Justice Department clarified the issue. .”
Cannabis Law Report
JULY 23, 2021
“When you’re talking about wanting to do an actual clinical trial, you need a diversity of people that participate and one state just does not have the diversity of people that are required,” Towle said. The new DEA research license will now change that.
WeedAdvisor
JULY 4, 2019
Despite mounting evidence into cannabis’ therapeutic benefits, the DEA continues to close its eyes and plug its ears, constantly claiming that there is not enough research to support its medicinal value, according to Marijuana Moment. It could be argued that the DEA is hesitant for the sake of public safety.
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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