Colorado’s now years-long experiment with legal medical and recreational cannabis markets has been mostly positive and fascinating, and yet the federal government has been slow to rethink its decades-long prohibitionist position.
The DEA may be close to reaching a decision on rescheduling marijuana to recognize the medical benefits.
The DEA claims that homegrown marijuana operations are more dangerous than meth ones.
Just don’t expect to fill a marijuana brownie prescription at your local drug store any time soon.
The DEA pledged in April it would review marijuana’s classification so that it could be researched for possible medicinal benefits.
Law enforcement noticed last year that sex trafficking operations sprang up around World Cannabis Week in Colorado, where marijuana is now legal.
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The DEA announced recently a re-examination of the Schedule I classification of marijuana. This most restrictive classification is reserved for substances which have…
Consensus is growing among Maine physicians that cannabis can effectively treat some medical conditions, and the number of people seeking prescriptions is rising right along with it.
