All posts tagged "Schedule I"

In The Magazine

Left Behind by Clemency

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

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...

Current Events

Big Pharma Gets Green Light

Guess who benefits when Uncle Sam opens the research weed supply chain?

Politics

Gateway Theory Destroyed: Even FDA Admits It’s Bunk

This summer, the DEA declined to reschedule cannabis from Schedule I, meaning the federal government is...

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...

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...

Legal

Senate Hearings Reveal Drug Agencies’ Strategies for Medical Cannabis

Things are busy in the nation’s drug agencies according to the testimony of Susan R.B. Weiss,...

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...

Culture

The U.S. Must Create a New Schedule for Cannabis: An Open Letter the U.S. Congress

Congress created the Schedules and Congress should change them. It can start simply by creating Schedule...

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...

Joint Opinions

GW Pharmaceuticals is Uncle Sam’s Version of Legal Weed

A pharmaceutical giant has discovered what an increasing number of parents and patients across the United...

Legal

Former Attorney General Says Congress Should Reschedule Marijuana

The powers behind the continued prohibition of marijuana may exist somewhere within a super secret society,...

In History

Veterans on the Front Lines in Fight for Medical Cannabis

Ricardo Pereyda discovered the medicinal benefits of cannabis to treat his PTSD after serving in Iraq.

Economics

Tax Code 280E: The Dagger Pointed at the Heart of Medical Cannabis

Near the end of 2015, in the case of Canna Care Inc v. Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service...

Legal

DEA Eases CBD Research, But Only Big Pharma Will Benefit

Marijuana advocates across the United States waited eagerly on bended knee earlier last week upon the...

Hemp

Hemp’s Legal Cannabinoids

While THC remains federally illegal, the legalization of hemp has opened up the way to powerful...

Legal

FBI Rethinks Its Policy on Cannabis

In an effort for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to continue recruiting young people to work...

Medical

Seniors Turn to Cannabis for Treatment

Seniors can get multiple benefits from cannabis.

Politics

Senator Gillibrand Asks for Cannabis Industry Support in Passing the CARERS Act

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand stood before a legion of cannabis industry leaders earlier this week in...

Legal

FBI Hints At Softer Attitude Towards Cannabis

Two weeks ago, a prominent cannabis industry figure in California was indicted on federal charges of...