Topic: DRUGS - on August 13, 2016 at 12:00:00 PM CEST
DEA ends its monopoly on marijuana growing for medical research
The federal government is ending its decades-old monopoly on marijuana production for medical research as the Drug Enforcement Administration announced Thursday that it was bowing to changing times. The agency said it would begin allowing researchers and drug companies to use pot grown in places other than its well-secured facility at the University of Mississippi. But the agency did not make the bigger plunge toward marijuana legalization that many lawmakers have been advocating. It passed on a proposal to remove cannabis from the federal government’s most dangerous category of narcotics. The drug continues to be classified as more dangerous than cocaine.
latimes.com DEA Announces Marijuana Will Stay Schedule 1, ‘No Medical Use Or Purpose’ 'Politics Above Science': Obama Administration Keeps Marijuana Restrictions Why the DEA just said ‘no’ to loosening marijuana restrictions
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