Legal Related The DEA May Soon Start Issuing Marijuana Cultivation Permits by Sophia Vida December 25, 2020 According to Richard Shain, the president of Maridose, one of the 30 entities that have applied for the federal cannabis cultivation permits, the DEA may start issuing the permits in early 2021. “I expect them to start issuin...
Legal Related Federal Court Rules That California Regulators Must Turn Over Marijuana Documents To DEA by Sophia Vida September 03, 2020 A federal court has ruled that California regulators must comply with a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) subpoena that demands information about marijuana businesses. It was in 2018 that the DEA had initially asked for unr...
Legal Related Federal Government Decides to Expand Marijuana Research Thanks to this Doctor by Sophia Vida August 27, 2019 In an announcement on Monday, the federal government has said it plans to expand cannabis research. According to some cannabis experts, a move like this could downgrade marijuana’s Controlled Substances Act classification. ...
Legal Related Federal Appeals Court Orders the DEA to Promptly’ Consider Marijuana Rescheduling by Sophia Vida May 31, 2019 It was a victorious day on Thursday for medical marijuana patients and advocates for marijuana reform as a federal appeals court has ruled that it would hold open a case challenging the scheduling status of marijuana under federal...
Trends & Articles The DEA Wants a Contractor in This State to Burn Marijuana at 1,000 Pounds an Hour by Sophia Vida March 26, 2019 The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is searching for an Arizona contractor who can burn marijuana at a rate of 1,000 pounds an hour between the month of March and September. The DEA's Houston Division put out a contrac...
Spotlight Stock The Drug Enforcement Administration Gives Green Light to Marijuana Drug Epidiolex by Sophia Vida September 27, 2018 The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the top drug regulator in the nation, has done something it hasn't done in almost fifty years. The agency has changed its position on cannabis for the first time in 46 years and announ...
Legal Related The DEA Released a New Set of Slang Terms for Marijuana by Sophia Vida July 11, 2018 It's that time. The DEA’s annual list of drug slang terms is out. Here's this year's list of slang terms for cannabis: A-Bomb Alfalfa Almohada AZ Bazooka Bionic Blue Dream Branches Café Cajita Camara Diosa Verd...
Trends & Articles This is How Much Cannabis Seizures Climbed Last Year by Sophia Vida October 10, 2017 According to new data, cannabis seizures grew at a whopping 20% in 2016. The DEA's annual Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Statistical Report found that more than 5.3 million cannabis plants were confiscated by agents ...
Science related (Medical) DEA Chief Just Said Marijuana Is Not Medicine by Sophia Vida May 26, 2017 Many people would more than likely disagree with Drug Enforcement Administration acting Chief Chuck Rosenberg when he said on Thursday that, "marijuana is not medicine." Speaking at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, Rosenberg state...