DEA Refuses To Approve Marijuana Businesses In States That Allow Dual Medical And Recreational Licensing
It is refusing to extend approvals to cannabis operators in dual license states
While the Department of Justice announced on Friday that it has given federal registration and protections to more than 900 medical cannabis businesses across the U.S., it is also refusing to extend such approvals to cannabis operators in certain states.
According to an order DEA officials sent to a marijuana business in Minnesota, the agency “cannot permit any applicant operating under” the state’s law to have access to federal protections that come with the Trump administration’s federal cannabis rescheduling move.
Specifically, DEA told In-Dispensary in Minneapolis that the state’s “dual-purpose marijuana license, permitting both medical and non-medical dispensing falls outside the recent promulgated definition of ‘state medical license’” in federal policy.
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