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US Supreme Court won’t hear marijuana legalization case

A three-year-long attempt to legalize marijuana at the federal level through a lawsuit appears to have come to…

News October 13
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DOJ memo suggests cannabis research held up amid flawed process

A 2018 U.S. Department of Justice opinion released as part of a court settlement explains why the Drug…

News April 30
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DEA removes cannabis drug Epidiolex from controlled substances list

Epidiolex, the only plant-derived cannabis drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is no longer considered…

News April 7
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DEA wants to expand cannabis grown for research by 31%

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is proposing an increase in the amount of marijuana that would be…

News September 11
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DEA supports expanding cannabis research, but timing uncertain

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced Monday that it will expand scientific and medical research of marijuana,…

News August 26
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DEA ordered to explain delay in medical marijuana research application processing

A federal appellate court ordered the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to respond within a month to a lawsuit…

News July 30
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US touts bigger medical cannabis research crop while applications linger

The U.S. government is growing the largest marijuana research crop in five years but still hasn’t acted on…

News July 12
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Federal appeals court to DEA: Reconsider marijuana’s Schedule 1 status

A federal appeals court in New York told the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to “promptly” reconsider its…

News June 3
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Congressional group urges feds to speed research into medical cannabis

A bipartisan group of 30 members of Congress on Tuesday sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr and…

News May 7
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