All posts tagged "DEA"

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Left Behind by Clemency

What's beef? Beef is when a rap video means the difference between a four-year sentence and...

Politics

Does Trump Even Have a Cannabis Policy? Signs Point to No

Initial cannabis industry responses to Trump's election and subsequent promotion of avowed "drug warriors" ranged from...

Legal

Don’t Believe Oklahoma’s Meaningless CBD Stunt

CBD-extractors in Oklahoma are celebrating after Gov. Mary Fallin signed into law a bill changing the...

Legal

DEA Order Places Six ‘Spice’ Ingredients on Schedule I

BREAKING: A temporary scheduling order from the DEA has placed six more synthetic cannabinoids found in...

Concentrates

Morocco’s GDP Is 23% Hash-Based: The DEA Has Taken Notice

After a 20-year absence, the DEA has returned to Morocco and resumed enforcement operations in the...

Legal

Hemp CBD Unaffected by DEA “Rescheduling” Panic

There was widespread panic that the DEA was "banning" or "rescheduling" CBD when news broke the...

Legal

Guidelines Give More Clemency for Crack than Cannabis

Former president Obama released more prisoners through pardon and clemency than any other U.S. president in...

Joint Opinions

The Murky Waters of Hemp CBD’s Legal Status Get Murkier

Some legal experts say the DEA's recent notice in the federal register concerning the classification of...

Politics

Major Rights Groups: Decriminalize Use of all Illicit Drugs

NEW YORK (AP) — As Americans debate the expanding campaign to legalize marijuana, two of the...

Joint Opinions

Cannabis Facts to Convince the Opposition

With the last month’s announcement that the Drug Enforcement Agency will continue to classify marijuana as...

Joint Opinions

DEA and Rescheduling Cannabis: The Dream is Over

Many marijuana activists and reformers were disappointed recently when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued their...

Cannabis

DEA’s Loosened Restrictions on MMJ Research Could Open the Door to New HIV Drugs

For decades, medical marijuana has long been an ally for HIV patients, showing efficacy for a...

Cannabis

DEA Will Let You Apply To Grow Cannabis — But There’s A Catch

The DEA is allowing anyone and everyone — including enterprises that produce cannabis commercially — to...

Legal

DEA Blasted For Failing to Reschedule Marijuana

The Drug Enforcement Administration is under severe criticism today after it failed to downgrade marijuana from...

Politics

Marijuana Could Shed ‘Most Dangerous Drug’ Status This Month

The Drug Enforcement Administration is preparing to announce within the next 30 days a potentially historic...

Legal

Montana Buds Was Raided On Suspicion of Trafficking

Allegations of interstate marijuana trafficking and distributing cannabis in excess of Montana medical marijuana law might...

Legal

Montana Dispensary Raid Update: Montana Buds Re-Opens; ‘We Got Robbed’

The state of Montana’s largest medical cannabis franchise, Montana Buds, re-opened Thursday, after a Wednesday raid...

Legal

Breaking: DEA Raids Montana’s Largest Medical Marijuana Dispensary Montana Buds

[Updated 2:04 p.m. MST] Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and local law enforcement from around...

Economics

The DEA Drained $18 Million Last Year Destroying Pot Plants

The DEA’s mission is simple: Search and destroy. At the expense of hardworking taxpayers, the DEA...

Legal

Marijuana Rescheduling Announcement Could Be a Huge Let Down

Some of the biggest news circulating around the marijuana community over the past week is word...