Earlier today, the US Department of Agriculture released "interim final" rules to implement the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (also known as the 2018 Farm Bill). The law removed hemp and hemp-derived products with less than 0.3% THC from being a Schedule I drug under...
Today the US Food & Drug Administration announced approval of the first legal cannabis-based drug. The drug, GW Pharmaceuticals' Epidiolex, which will be prescribed to treat severe seizures caused by Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, will be offered in liquid form and will not contain...
Updated 6/8/2017 following release of bill text: Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) today introduced the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States (STATES) Act. While we have not seen the text yet, Sen. Warren has published a summary. The bill would amend the Controlled...
A potentially groundbreaking federal lawsuit brought last summer was dismissed by New York judge Alvin Hellerstein today. The case, brought by five plaintiffs including two children, two veterans and former NFL player Marvin Washington, all of whom use state legal medical cannabis, claimed that the Controlled Substances Act is...
Former NFL star Marvin Washington and others yesterday filed a lawsuit in NY against the US Government and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The suit is seeking to declare the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), which makes cannabis illegal under federal law, unconstitutional as to its classification...
Republican Congressman Tom Garrett this week introduced a bill that would decriminalize marijuana and remove it from the list of controlled substances as a "Schedule I drug." The bill is called the “Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017.” With Garrett as sponsor is Democrat Rep....