DEA finally issues permits to grow research-grade pot

The DEA is finalizing the effort to increase the number of permitted research-grade marijuana growers after initially receiving guidance from its own administrative law judge in February 2007.

The companies spent years in permit limbo hoping to provide research quality pot.

As we noted just before the pandemic hit – when the rules governing the growers were issued – the ban on allowing more producers resulted in a research-grade cannabis monopoly that favored the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s University of Mississippi farm. The situation was originally challenged by University of Massachusetts Amherst professor, Lyle Kraker. Read more →