Articles tagged with "DEA"

The Justice Department will suspend indefinitely one of the most controversial pieces of its asset forfeiture operations.

The change will allow researchers easier access to CBD supplies, but the government still denies that cannabis offers any medical benefit.

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration approved the New Jersey-based organization Catalent to receive imported cannabis for research purposes.

Upon hearing the contentious words from DEA Chief Chuck Rosenberg that caused an outrage among the medical marijuana community, Rep. Blumenauer took action.

DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg has come under fire for his remarks on cannabis and marijuana supporters are firing back, supporting a petition calling for his resignation.

The 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary asked a sample of 1,100 law enforcement officers what they perceived to be the nation’s biggest drug threat. Their response?

The DEA chief says that medical marijuana is a joke, at least if you’re smoking it, so we dug up some studies that demonstrate the fallacy of such a statement.

A bipartisan bill called the “Stop Civil Asset Forfeiture Funding for Marijuana Suppression Act” would cut off all funding to the DEA’s Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program.

In the few short months since Chuck Rosenberg became the new head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, he’s already raised some eyebrows with his cannabis rhetoric.

DEA administrator Chuck Rosenberg recently stated that “heroin is clearly more dangerous than marijuana,” shifting from his previous claim that cannabis is “probably” not as dangerous.