{"id":9093,"date":"2020-07-24T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/?p=9093"},"modified":"2020-07-24T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:10:00","slug":"low-quality-cannabis-continues-to-hinder-proper-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/low-quality-cannabis-continues-to-hinder-proper-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Quality Cannabis Continues to Hinder Proper Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers demand higher quality cannabis. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The DEA promised a few years ago it would let more people grow cannabis for research purposes, but it wasn\u2019t until late last month \u2014 as the country locked down under safer-at-home orders to combat the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 that the agency unveiled a plan for how it would do that. Under the DEA\u2019s newly proposed rules, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/dea-proposes-an-elevated-increase-in-cannabis-grown-for-research\/\">the agency would allow more scientists and companies to grow cannabis for research<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but they would have to turn it over to the DEA, who would then distribute to scientists.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>No One Expected Such Difficulty For Cannabis Research<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most researchers never envisioned that a legitimate attempt to study cannabis\u2019s potential benefits would become a decade-long quest involving fights with universities and the federal government, and attempts to uncover confidential legal documents. Yet this is the complicated maze scientists studying cannabis have been navigating for years. The DEA still classifies cannabis as a Schedule I drug \u2014 a restrictive category reserved for substances believed to have no medical value and highly susceptible to abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Researchers Want Access to Dispensary Quality Cannabis<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/do-the-feds-think-cannabis-belongs-in-schedule-1\/\">The DEA has repeatedly said it won\u2019t support reclassifying cannabis<\/a> because there aren\u2019t well-controlled studies or scientific evidence approved by the Food and Drug Administration to show medical benefits. Yet scientists say that if evidence of those benefits is ever going to exist, they need to put real-world cannabis \u2014 not what\u2019s made available from the University of Mississippi \u2014 through these studies. The menu from the Ole Miss farm \u2014 which is largely confined to smokeable flower and THC extract \u2014 excludes high-potency products like edibles, shatter or wax.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Conflict Continues<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This sets up a paradox, in which practically no one can show through an FDA-approved clinical trial that the cannabis products on the market are safe or beneficial because <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">researchers<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can\u2019t legally study them. In 2016, following requests from scientists, the DEA <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that it would allow more facilities to cultivate cannabis for research. Jeff Sessions then became US Attorney General and in 2017 he halted the government\u2019s plans to allow more growers. When members of Congress later pressed Sessions on the pending applications, he suggested that allowing more than one producer could put the country at risk of violating the U.N. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, a 1961 international treaty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9099 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Low-Quality-Cannabis-Continues-to-Hinder-Proper-Research-Paradox.png\" alt=\"Low Quality Cannabis Continues to Hinder Proper Research Paradox\" width=\"442\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Low-Quality-Cannabis-Continues-to-Hinder-Proper-Research-Paradox.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Low-Quality-Cannabis-Continues-to-Hinder-Proper-Research-Paradox-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Low-Quality-Cannabis-Continues-to-Hinder-Proper-Research-Paradox-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Low-Quality-Cannabis-Continues-to-Hinder-Proper-Research-Paradox-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Finding Loopholes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Universities have gotten creative in their methods to legally <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> cannabis without procuring it from the DEA. For example, Washington State University researchers are conducting a study in which they ask participants to buy cannabis at a legal dispensary, go home and smoke it, and then take an Uber or Lyft to the lab to give a blood sample. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2020\/03\/23\/2020-05796\/controls-to-enhance-the-cultivation-of-marihuana-for-research-in-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Controls To Enhance the Cultivation of Marihuana for Research in the United States<\/a>\u201d is a proposed Rule by the DEA introduced on March 23, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Finally a Way to Move Forward<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new rules<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> proposed by the DEA were the result of an opinion written by lawyers in the DOJ\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel in June 2018, while Sessions was still attorney general. That opinion was kept secret until scientists filed a lawsuit in early March against the department, which settled with the release of the document. The proposed regulations, according to the spokesman, \u201ccould permit a greater range of products available for scientific research.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Is This a Telltale For What&#8217;s to Come?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the proposed rule, the \u201cDEA would have the exclusive right of importing, exporting, wholesale trading and maintaining stocks of cannabis other than those held by DEA-registered manufacturers and distributors of medicinal cannabis or cannabis preparations. Further, this exclusive right would not apply to medicinal cannabis or cannabis preparations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers demand higher quality cannabis. The DEA promised a few years ago it would let more people grow cannabis for research purposes, but it wasn\u2019t until late last month \u2014 as the country locked down under safer-at-home orders to combat the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 that the agency unveiled a plan for how it would do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":9107,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[1876,1877,124,176],"class_list":["post-9093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-cannabis-research","tag-dea","tag-legalization","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cannabis Central<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What makes cannabis research difficult in the US? 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