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Nebraska AG Hilgers joins opposition to reclassifying weed as less-dangerous drug

July 24, 2024
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Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, Nebraska
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Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers sent a letter this week from 11 red states arguing that the Biden administration should not reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug to the lesser classification of Schedule III. The attorneys general from Alabama,…

Marijuana move could help Biden in key voter group

May 10, 2024
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The Biden administration’s move to loosen federal regulations on marijuana could help the president make much-needed headway among younger voters, a group that was crucial to his 2020 win but is showing waning enthusiasm for his reelection bid. The Drug…

Most Americans want legal pot. Here’s why feds are taking so long to change old rules.

February 18, 2024
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Marijuana remains in an odd legal limbo in the United States, and there's one organization at the center of it: The Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA has for decades held that marijuana is among the most dangerous, highly addictive drugs and…

Democrats urge Biden administration to deschedule marijuana

Senate Democrats are putting new pressure on the Biden administration to ease federal restrictions on marijuana in a new letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday as it considers rescheduling cannabis after it was federally classified more than five decades ago.…

Federal Scientists Recommend Easing Restrictions on Marijuana

January 13, 2024
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Marijuana is neither as risky nor as prone to abuse as other tightly controlled substances and has potential medical benefits, and therefore should be removed from the nation’s most restrictive category of drugs, federal scientists have concluded. The recommendations are…

Moving Marijuana to Schedule III Would Aid Access to Legal Care

Last week, Kevin Sabet, former drug policy adviser in the Executive Office of the President, published a letter from multiple former Drug Enforcement Administration and Office of National Drug Control Policy leaders claiming marijuana is “addictive.” This rhetoric is actually quite dangerous,…

U.S. set to allow more facilities to produce marijuana for research

Moving to end one university’s decadeslong monopoly on supplying marijuana for U.S. research, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said last Friday it will soon issue licenses to a number of growing facilities. Since 1968, only one operation, the University of…

More deaths, investigations and turmoil at Juul: Here’s what happened in the vaping crisis this week

The furor over vaping reached a crescendo this week with two congressional hearings, hundreds of new cases of a mysterious lung disease, upheaval at e-cigarette maker Juul and canceled merger plans between Big Tobacco companies Altria and Philip Morris International.…

How Risk Management Can Make Marijuana-Related Businesses Bulletproof

By Steve Schain Envision managing the risk of a volatile, staggeringly lucrative, 100-percent federally legal enterprise? Toss in ridiculously inconsistent federal, state and local regulations, insanely evolving technologies and efficiencies and an industry-wide disinclination to ever “play by the rules.”…

Former Cyclist Floyd Landis To Open Up CBD Cafe In Pennsylvania

Floyd Landis, the Lancaster cyclist whose sensational 2006 Tour de France victory was nullified after a doping scandal, is now setting the pace deep into his second career — peddling state-legal marijuana and its derivatives. A pioneering cannabis entrepreneur, Landis…

Surgeon General: Federal drug classification needs changes

BOSTON (AP) — The nation's drug classification system should be revisited but illegal drugs shouldn't simply be decriminalized nationwide, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams told a gathering of police leaders focused on the opioids crisis Thursday in Boston. "Our scheduling…

DEA reclassifies plant-derived marijuana medicine

According to a release issued by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Epidiolex, a prescription medicine containing a standardized formulation of plant-derived cannabidiol (CBD), has been reclassified by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to Schedule V — the lowest restriction…

Inside The Trump Administration’s Secret War On Cannabis

The White House has secretly amassed a committee of federal agencies from across the government to combat public support for marijuana and cast state legalization measures in a negative light, while attempting to portray the drug as a national threat,…

DEA chief steps down, citing increasing challenges of temporary role

The acting head of the Drug Enforcement Administration told staff Monday he is retiring, saying that running the agency as a temporary fill-in had become “increasingly challenging.” Robert W. Patterson, who has worked at the DEA for 30 years, sent…

Hoban Law Group Responds to 9th Circuit Ruling

May 1, 2018
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Hemp Business Executive, Policy & Legal, Press Releases
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PRESS RELEASE Hemp Industries Assn., et. al v. DEA (Denver, CO) – In December 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration issued its Final Rule, the “Establishment of New Drug Code for Marihuana Extract.” In response, Hoban Law Group, on behalf of Petitioners…

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