President Trump has announced he will nominate Todd Blanche — his former personal attorney, who has been running the Department of Justice in an acting capacity — to serve as permanent attorney general. I wrote back in April about the
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I Feel Like I’m Taking Crazy Pills: Gov. Spanberger Vetoes Adult-Use Sales Law
It’s déjà vu all over again. In a move that surprised many — and disappointed more — Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has vetoed legislation that would have finally established a regulated adult-use marijuana retail market in the Commonwealth. The veto
Still Grounded: Why Rescheduling Doesn’t Mean Truckers and Pilots Can Light Up
Good news for people who don’t want their airline pilots any higher than they already are.
If you’ve been following the rescheduling saga as closely as I have, you might have assumed that once President Trump signed the executive order
Guns and Ganja: What Rescheduling Means for Firearm Purchases
We are going to white knuckle our way through a blog post about lawyers and guns without doing the obligatory Warren Zevon plug, but we want you to understand how hard this is for us.
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Budding Trends Baker’s Dozen: The Impacts of Marijuana’s Rescheduling
In the summer of 2017, Phish lit up Madison Square Garden with a historic 13-night run. Your friends at Budding Trends believe the marijuana rescheduling decision calls for a rollout just as monumental, so we’ve created the Budding Trends Baker’s
Does Rescheduling Make Medical Marijuana Expansion More Likely? A State-by-State Assessment
One of the questions I have been asked most often since the Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed a final order moving FDA-approved marijuana products and state-licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act
Hi, I’m With the Government and I’d Like to Ask You a Question: What State-Licensed Medical Marijuana Operators Need to Know Before Applying for a Schedule III Registration
If you’re familiar with operators in the marijuana industry in the United States, you understand that they can be a paranoid bunch — and often with very good reasons. After all, they operated in the grayest areas of the law
Why Next FDA Commissioner Will Have Historically Consequential Role in Cannabis and Psychedelic Policy
Dr. Marty Makary resigned as FDA commissioner last week, barely a year after his Senate confirmation. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed the departure and indicated the agency is searching for a replacement. Kyle Diamantas, FDA’s deputy commissioner for
We’re Going Deeper: Budding Trends Is Expanding Its Coverage of Psychedelic Law and Policy
“What a long, strange trip it’s been.”
When we launched Budding Trends years ago as a modest little blog focused on cannabis law, the idea that we’d one day spend serious time tracking potential widespread access to psychedelics was, to
What the Marijuana Rescheduling Order Means for Psychedelics
This is the last of 13 posts describing the impacts of marijuana’s rescheduling. An homage to Phish’s historic run at Madison Square Garden in the Summer of 2017, Budding Trends Baker’s Dozen has addressed how rescheduling affects various areas of