{"id":50608,"date":"2020-03-20T16:32:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/dea-is-moving-forward-with-cannabis-grow-licensing-to-expand-marijuana-research\/"},"modified":"2020-03-20T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T16:32:03","slug":"dea-is-moving-forward-with-cannabis-grow-licensing-to-expand-marijuana-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/dea-is-moving-forward-with-cannabis-grow-licensing-to-expand-marijuana-research\/","title":{"rendered":"DEA Is Moving Forward with Cannabis Grow Licensing to Expand Marijuana Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the rest of the country grinds to a halt to slow the spread of coronavirus, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is actually advancing long-delayed plans<\/u><\/a> to provide high-quality cannabis for research purposes.<\/p>\n

In a new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to be published in the Federal Register next week, the DEA proposes to amend its regulations governing the production of federally-legal research-grade cannabis. “Specifically, this proposed rule would amend the provisions of the regulations governing applications by persons seeking to become registered with DEA to grow ‘marihuana’ as bulk manufacturers and add provisions related to the purchase and sale of this ‘marihuana’ by DEA,” the notice reads, according to <\/u>Forbes<\/em><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ongoing federal prohibition of cannabis has made it extremely difficult for scientists to conduct clinical research on marijuana. In order to provide researchers a legal source of weed, the DEA licensed the University of Mississippi<\/u><\/a> to begin growing a small amount of pot for research ends. This institution has been growing legal weed since the late 1960s, but the quality of this government grass is reportedly so abysmal that many researchers have rejected it<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n