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Senators Push Sessions To Stop Blocking Marijuana Cultivation Applications


A bipartisan group of U.S. senators sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, demanding answers about the status of applications to manufacture marijuana for research purposes.

The letter comes almost two years after the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) filed a notice calling on research institutions to submit applications to grow cannabis through an expanded federal research program. Since then, the DEA has received at least 26 applications—but the agency has yet to act on them.

Sessions has voiced support for expanding the number of institutions that are allowed to manufacture cannabis on at least two occasions. For nearly 50 years, only the University of Mississippi has been authorized to grow marijuana for federal research purposes, but the quality of the cannabis available to be studied has been subject to criticism from researchers.

Specifically, the relatively low concentrations of THC—and the absence of other important cannabinoids—present in the marijuana grown at the university has raised questions about the applicability of studies that rely its yield to real-world cannabis that consumers are buying at dispensaries or in the unregulated market.

The attorney general said at an earlier hearing that he felt it was important to diversify the federally sanctioned production of marijuana. And in April, he said reviews of applications to grow cannabis for research purposes were “moving forward.”

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/senators-push-sessions-to-stop-blocking-marijuana-cultivation-applications/