Dea to Argue Against Umass Growing of Medicinal Cannabis at Hearingdec. 12-16

U.S. Newswire › December 05, 2005

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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Lawyers representing the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will make oral arguments before DEA Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner on Dec. 12- 16 to support a decision to deny Prof. Lyle Craker a license to grow medicinal cannabis for research at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, under contract to a non-profit organization.

The hearings, which will last five days, will feature only DEA witnesses. Among them will be Dr. ElSohly of the University of Mississippi who is the only person in the U.S. with a license to grow "marijuana" for research. Dr. ElSohly is under contract to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which has been widely criticized for refusing to supply marijuana to some privately- funded research projects, and for the low quality and limited variety of the crop.

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Dea to Argue Against Umass Growing of Medicinal Cannabis at Hearingdec. 12-16

While the legal battle has been fought for over four years, thirty-five Members of Congress have recently signed a letter to the DEA ur...

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