“Effectively 200 million Americans can access cannabis right now, but a doctor or scientist can’t,” George Hodgin, founder of a marijuana analytical firm, said. “It is at best irresponsible, and, at worst, it’s dangerous.”
Frustrated, Sisley said she essentially went on “a nationwide tour to speak to every Bob’s Burger Barn or American Legion post, anyone who would have me,” to talk about the government’s stonewalling of cannabis research. That’s how she met Texas-based attorneys Matt Zorn and Shane Pennington, who took on Sisley’s case pro bono last year.
Together, they sued the DEA for not processing Sisley’s application, and in July 2019, a court ordered the agency to explain itself. Just before a court deadline last August, the DEA said it planned to issue new regulations for how it would permit additional growers.written by lawyers in the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel in June 2018, while Sessions was still attorney general.
That opinion was kept secret until Sisley and her legal team filed a lawsuit in March against the department, which settled this week with the release of the document. Pennington said the memo reveals that the limitations under the treaty were not based on who is growing the marijuana. “It’s about who’s possessing it, purchasing it, and doing wholesale trade in it, so it’s been a myth that we’ve had to have this University of Mississippi weed this whole time,” he said.“DEA must operate within the bounds of law, regulations, and international treaties,” the spokesman said in an email.
The proposed regulations, the spokesman added, “could permit a greater range of product available for scientific research.”The grow operation on the University of Mississippi’s Oxford campus has heavy security, with dozens of cameras, guards on duty, motion-activated sensors and multiple security gates equipped with vibration detectors. It’s a far cry from 40 years ago, when undergraduates once tried to cast fishing rods over a fence to snag a marijuana plant.
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