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Federal Government Ordered 1000 Lbs Of Marijuana
Posted by CN Staff on May 05, 2014 at 16:05:17 PT
By Matt Ferner, The Huffington Post
Source: Huffington Post
Washington, D.C. -- The federal government just ordered all the marijuana it wants -- something it would send most Americans to prison for doing.On Monday, the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a new rule that increases the U.S. government's production quota for medical marijuana from an annual 21 kg to 650 kg. That's about 1,433 pounds of pot in total.
The U.S. government grows marijuana for research purposes at the University of Mississippi in the only federally legal marijuana garden in the U.S. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) oversees the cultivation, production and distribution of these crops."NIDA recently notified the DEA that it required additional supplies of marijuana to be manufactured in 2014 to provide for current and anticipated research efforts involving marijuana," reads a recent Federal Register's statement from the DEA.The statement goes on to specify a production quota of 650,000 grams of pot for the current year.The DEA decided to grant NIDA access to more marijuana "in order to provide a continuous and uninterrupted supply" of cannabis for research, according to the statement, which also says that the federal government was "unaware" of NIDA's need for additional marijuana when the initial production quota of 21 kg was set in 2013.Twenty-one states have legalized marijuana for medical use, and recreational marijuana is legal in Colorado and Washington, with sales in Colorado having already begun. About a dozen other states are considering legalizing marijuana in some form in the coming years.Still, under federal law the plant remains illegal and classified as a Schedule I drug, meaning it's considered one of "the most dangerous" substances "with no currently accepted medical use."The feds have long been accused of only funding marijuana research that focuses on the potential negative effects of the substance, but that trend appears to be changing.According to The Hill, NIDA has conducted about 30 studies to date on the potential benefits of marijuana.The most recent research effort was approved in March, when the Department of Health and Human Services signed off on a study assessing medical cannabis as a potential treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Researchers will provide the equivalent of two joints per day, cultivated from the federal government's stash at Ole Miss, for 50 veterans.The federal government's interest in marijuana certainly appears to be growing. Since 2003, more than 500 grants for marijuana-related studies have received approval from the feds, with a marked upswing in recent years, according to McClatchy. Only 22 grants were approved in 2003 for cannabis research, totaling $6 million, but in 2012, 69 grants were approved for a total of over $30 million.Source: Huffington Post (NY) Author: Matt Ferner, The Huffington PostPublished: May 5, 2014Copyright: 2014 HuffingtonPost.com, LLC Contact: scoop huffingtonpost.comWebsite: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/URL: http://drugsense.org/url/dkE72LdbCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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Comment #8 posted by runruff on May 06, 2014 at 11:01:49 PT
True story though.
What bunch of jar heads and brained washed wanna be comic book heroes! I have lots of stories about the automatons in uniform,the army of useful idiots!
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Comment #7 posted by Sam Adams on May 06, 2014 at 10:50:21 PT
runruff
that's a ridiculous story - can't believe they couldn't even make it back to the station without stopping for junk food!
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Comment #6 posted by afterburner on May 06, 2014 at 09:30:50 PT
NICE
How about NICE, National Institute for Cannabis Education!Plus, dump the schwag & let the powerful state strains be recognized federally and used in medical and nutritional research.Mr. Obama, "tear down this wall!"
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Comment #5 posted by runruff on May 06, 2014 at 09:28:51 PT
We gag on the swag!
Like drinking beer that taste like Schlitz! Like a McD's menu v. Spark's Steakhouse Menu- http://sparkssteakhouse.com/menu/ DEA Agents eat a ton of fast food and always wash that swill down with "Mountain Dew" because MD is hyped up with caffeine. The favorite legal drug of the DEA. This was told to me as I was in handcuffs going through a fast food drive through with Agent Snow on the way to jail.
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Comment #4 posted by Sam Adams on May 06, 2014 at 08:39:16 PT
Paging Dr. Schwag!
He's going to be busy this year! The Govt. should lift the ban on additional research cannabis production in the US if they want to help us.It's so silly that premium cannabis is now being sold in stores in Colorado and yet medical researchers are forced to buy schwag from a single government producer in Mississippi. We are living in the Soviet Union.
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Comment #3 posted by runruff on May 06, 2014 at 08:08:31 PT
1000 elbos of the cronic?
Where's the party? Congress and the DEA are planning one hella sized party! Just let me stand in the hall with the vendors, the second hand smoke alone will be a cosmic blast and appetite ragger! It will be only the seventh time I attended a smoke-in this large. "Pardon me sir, which way to the presidential hammock?"
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Comment #2 posted by afterburner on May 06, 2014 at 06:39:00 PT
NIDA to NICR
{ The feds have long been accused of only funding marijuana research that focuses on the potential negative effects of the substance, but that trend appears to be changing.According to The Hill, NIDA has conducted about 30 studies to date on the potential benefits of marijuana.
}This is encouraging! Now, it is time to change the derogatory name of this agency. How about NICR, National Institute for Cannabis Research?
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Comment #1 posted by Helpful Josh on May 06, 2014 at 05:56:49 PT:
The production price of Cannabis
I read somewhere that the price of "governmental" cannabis will be 2 dollars per gram. Does anybody know what the price will be in Colorado? Was just interested for a price model I am working on
Grow Your Own Cannabis
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