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ASA offers solution to DOJ research block: Our comments on the DEA’s proposed rules

Americans for Safe Access

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 “Senate Unanimously Approves Legislation Providing US Attorney General with Greater Say in Cannabis Research Decisions”

Cannabis Law Report

Senate Bill 253: The Cannabidiol and Marihuana Research Expansion Act provides the office of US Attorney General, rather than the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the discretion to license scientists to engage in clinical trials involving the use of cannabis by human subjects. The full text of S. 253 is online here.

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DEA Faces Lawsuit For Denying End of Life Patients the Right to Try Psychedelics Therapy

Veriheal

This Act permits individuals that have been diagnosed with life-threatening conditions or diseases that have exhausted all other approved treatment and therapeutic options that are also unable to participate in clinical trials the ability to access certain treatments that would otherwise be unapproved for access.

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Veriheal’s Innovation in Cannabis Scholarship 2020 Winners

Veriheal

Program between St. About Sinibaldo: Sinibaldo is an aspiring healthcare professional and a biomedical researcher in the Medical Scientist Training Program (M.D./Ph.D.) About Nishtha: Nishtha is pursuing neurology to become a physician-scientist in honor of her grandmother Nani who suffered from Alzheimer’s.

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AIMS v. Garland: A Disappointment for Psilocybin Advocates, but Progressive Policy May Still be on the Horizon

Cannabis Law Report

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed a petition for review of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) response to an attorney’s letter seeking advice and guidance on how a physician could administer psilocybin to a terminally ill patient without incurring liability under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). By Allison Campbell.

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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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MAPS Organization Granted $12.9 Million to Study Cannabis and PTSD •

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The grant comes from Michigan’s 2021 Veteran Marijuana Research Grant Program , and is funded by the state’s recreational cannabis taxes. We overcame significant regulatory obstacles obstructing cannabis research to conduct the first clinical trial of inhaled cannabis for PTSD ,” said Yazar-Klosinki. . MAPS Makes History.