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The Obama administration is currently preparing to make a landmark decision on marijuana laws, determining whether or not cannabis has medical benefits. The decision in favor of the drug would put marijuana out of the USA's list of most dangerous drugs, the Charlotte Observer reports...

The Obama administration is currently preparing to make a landmark decision on marijuana laws, determining whether or not cannabis has medical benefits. The decision in favor of the drug would put marijuana out of the USA's list of most dangerous drugs, the Charlotte Observer reports...

HEY, YOU GUYS, did you hear? The federal government is about to make weed legal. No, for reals, I saw it on Facebook, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is going to totally make it so doctors have to give it to you, for free! Thanks Obama! I'm gonna make my doctor give me an ounce next...

"Let me tell you how the big pharma industry works," said the DEA lawyer, picking up a glass of chardonnay and swirling it around. We were having lunch at Shutters on the Beach, and the wine, for which I would pay, cost $150 a glass. But he had promised to answer some questions from readers of...

Senator Gillibrand, Joined By Bipartisan Group Of Senators And Representatives, Urge DEA To Remove Barriers To Research On Medical Marijuana, Request Meeting Citing New Information from the State Department and Documents from HHS, Senators and Representatives Urge DEA to Remove Cannabis from...

Senator Gillibrand, Joined By Bipartisan Group Of Senators And Representatives, Urge DEA To Remove Barriers To Research On Medical Marijuana, Request Meeting Citing New Information from the State Department and Documents from HHS, Senators and Representatives Urge DEA to Remove Cannabis from...

Today, Americans for Safe Access (ASA) disseminated copies of an independent 8-Factor Analysis conducted in support of current petitions requesting removal of cannabis (marijuana) from Schedule I status in the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The document was sent to all members of Congress, as...

DEA blocked marijuana research for 40 years, generating massive profits from the 'drug war' while committing heinous acts against growers. The medicinal value of cannabis cannot be ignored. This healing plant has successfully been used for treatment of pain, insomnia, rheumatoid arthritis...

A group of Democratic lawmakers is renewing pressure on the Drug Enforcement Administration to remove marijuana from its current position on a list of the most dangerous drugs, a category that includes heroin and ecstasy. Marijuana's classification as a "Schedule I" drug is "a main barrier"...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is about to make a decision that could have wide-ranging implications on the state-sanctioned marijuana industry: to reschedule or not to reschedule marijuana's position as an illegal substance. Since 1970, marijuana has been on the list of Schedule I drugs...

According to a press release by the DCMJ, co-founders Adam Eidinger and Nikolas Schiller will be meeting with key Obama administration officials. The activists want the US government's anti-cannabis laws revoked and the plant re-classified from its present status that invites criminal charges...

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reversed its stand in terms of using marijuana for medical advancement. DEA are looking at possibilities of legalizing medical marijuana for PTSD treatment. A test about using medical marijuana for PTSD treatment made waves as it is being looked upon...

The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to decide whether marijuana should reclassified under federal law in "the first half of 2016," the agency said in a letter to senators. DEA, responding to a 2015 letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and seven other Democratic senators urging...

Researchers won't need second approval to expand study of non-psychoactive cannabidiol. Studying a non-psychoactive compound found in marijuana will be slightly easier for researchers after the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a small regulatory change on Wednesday. The change...

Researchers won't need second approval to expand study of non-psychoactive cannabidiol. Studying a non-psychoactive compound found in marijuana will be slightly easier for researchers after the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a small regulatory change on Wednesday. The change...

The House of Representatives has voted to protect state medical marijuana and hemp laws from federal interference, to cut the Drug Enforcement Administration's budget and to halt bulk collection of American communications in drug investigations. In a near-sweep for reformers, the...

The House of Representatives has voted to protect state medical marijuana and hemp laws from federal interference, to cut the Drug Enforcement Administration's budget and to halt bulk collection of American communications in drug investigations. In a near-sweep for reformers, the...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers say the acting DEA chief's dismissal of medical marijuana as 'a joke' is no laughing matter - and they want him out of the job. Chuck Rosenberg, who came on as the acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration after embattled head Michele Leonhart...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers say the acting DEA chief's dismissal of medical marijuana as 'a joke' is no laughing matter - and they want him out of the job. Chuck Rosenberg, who came on as the acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration after embattled head Michele Leonhart...

More than 36,000 people had signed a petition as of Friday morning asking President Barack Obama to fire Drug Enforcement Administration head Chuck Rosenberg over comments he made on medical marijuana. Rosenberg said Nov. 4 that smoking marijuana for medicinal purposes "is a joke," CBS News...