The DEA used to control marijuana research with a strict monopoly, but this has changed with the agency contacting several businesses to grow the plant.
Some 36 states now permit marijuana to be used medically, and 17 allow recreational use. Yet researchers who wish to study the drug’s health effects have been limited since 1968 to a single legal supplier of the drug, the University of Mississippi. That looks set to change soon, as the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced Friday (May 14) that it has sent memorandums of agreement (MOAs) to hopeful growers “outlining the means by which the applicant and DEA will work together to facilitate the production, storage, packaging, and distribution of marijuana under the new regulations.”
“We were euphoric. This is a victory for scientific freedom. It’s finally a chance to use real-world cannabis in our own studies and supply genetically diverse cannabis to scientists across the nation,” says Sue Sisley, the president and principal investigator at the Scottsdale Research Institute (SRI), tells
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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) notified companies recently that they are moving toward approving applications to grant federal authorization for manufacturing marijuana for research purposes, according to an article from
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The article explained that over the last 50 years, only one facility has held this level of approval – the University of Mississippi. The Obama administration initially opened applications for additional companies to gain authorization to produce marijuana, but the Biden administration was the first to make explicit progress towards approval. These recent advancements by the DEA are the first look into the Biden administration’s stance on cannabis policy.
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