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DEA Rejects License for Mass. Prof to Grow Pot for Research
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Despite the president’s promise to place science above politics, the DEA issued a final order rejecting a license for a University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor to grow marijuana for federally regulated research. Just over a decade ago, in June of 2001, Professor Lyle Craker, 70, applied for the license in an…