Federal Court warns DEA about interfering with Medical Cannabis Providers

For over almost a year now the DEA and the DOJ were banned from using federal funds to go after legitimate marijuana businesses in states that have a legal framework in place. While the bill that banned the DEA from doing this action was pretty clear in terms of their limitations, the DEA felt that it had some “wiggle room” to break thus said law and still went after cannabis dispensaries and providers claiming that the bill merely “protected States and not the individuals or businesses within the State”.

Fortunately, a Federal Judge made it clear to the DOJ that interfering with State run Medical Marijuana programs, whether the actual state or the legal players within the program, is illegal!

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