The U.S. government is expanding the number of businesses that can grow marijuana for federally approved study after years of delay under the Trump administration. Read more →

While saying that this year has been difficult would be an understatement, 2020 seems to be ending on a high note for cannabis enthusiasts. On Wednesday, the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs voted to remove cannabis from the Schedule IV list, which contains highly addictive drugs such as heroin. Read more →

In late 2016, a former Navy SEAL named George Hodgin was in the final months of completing a graduate degree from Stanford Business School and was trying to work out what to do upon its completion. Like many veterans of the US armed services, Hodgin knew plenty of fellow vets suffering from the effects of service-related PTSD. Read more →

It seems like yet another Orwellian twist on reality. In a country where 200 million people have some legal access to cannabis, where a dozen states have full legal markets, where over 67% of the population supports legal cannabis, the DEA still blocks anyone except growers at one small farm at the University of Mississippi from growing cannabis for research purposes. This means that most US scientists trying to examine how cannabis treats pain, or PTSD or cancer are prohibited from buying or researching the products they need to do their work. Listen to the episode →

Early in Dr. Sue Sisley’s medical career, military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder told her that smoking marijuana prevented nightmares and helped them sleep. Sisley, a primary care physician and psychiatrist in Scottsdale, Arizona, who has treated vets for two decades, said she was initially skeptical of her patients’ claims, but their families vouched that pot was helping with their symptoms. Read more →

Biopharmaceutical Research Company (“BRC”) lauded the federal government’s efforts to implement regulations to satisfy the requirements of the Controlled Substances Act and several international narcotics treaties. Read more →

Since the 1960s there has only ever been one federally licensed farm that grows cannabis for researchers, and it’s at the University of Mississippi. In 2016, the US Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it would license additional growers, and more than thirty entities rushed in from all over the world to apply. Read more →

A shipment of medical marijuana from South America has arrived in the United States — and it's all right with the feds. Biopharmaceutical Research Company — a California-based marijuana research lab that is one of 33 DEA applicants to grow Schedule I research marijuana — received a shipment of marijuana grown by Uruguayan-based medical marijuana company Fotmer Life Sciences. Read more →

One of the top advocates for allowing U.S. companies to grow cannabis for research purposes has imported a batch from the Netherlands, saying he had no choice because of the lack of progress at home.

California-based Biopharmaceutical Research Co., founded by former Navy SEAL George Hodgin, legally imported a small quantity of marijuana from Bedrocan International last month to use for scientific analysis with the goal of better understanding the plant. Read more →

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have partnered with a federally compliant pharmaceutical company to analyze the chemical and biological profiles of cannabis for the benefit of law enforcement, health care providers and scientific professionals. Read more →