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Boom of Medical Marijuana Research on the Horizon as DEA Loosens Restrictions

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 08/25/2016 - 08:43

Government Will Soon Allow More Legal Sources for Obtaining Cannabis-for-Study

The DEA eliminates 48-year old monopoly on research-grade marijuana (MAPS)

Head of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Rick Doblin has been working on getting marijuana approved as a medicine for years, and recently announced the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is starting to open up to the idea of licensing more than one producer of cannabis product for research.

The only organization with exclusive control over the legal supply of marijuana is the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) which gets its supply from a single contractor at the University of Mississippi. NIDA has had a monopoly on research-grade marijuana for over 48 years now. MAPS was in a legal battle for over 10 years just to break the NIDA monopoly, which was instrumental in entering the industry and receiving approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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