Why the President Cannot Legalize Marijuana via Executive Action

I have just posted a paper addressing the question posed by the title of this post. Here’s a link to the paper on SSRN: POTUS and Pot: Why the President May Not (and Should Not) Legalize Marijuana Through Executive Action And here’s the abstract: Could the President legalize marijuana, without waiting for Congress to act?…

Posted by mikosra on September 30, 2020 in News, Updates, azar, cannabis, controlled substances act, de-schedule, declassify, delist, election, enforce, executive action, executive order, imperial, marihuana, marijuana, president, reschedule, sanders, schedule, Trump, warren

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How the Trump Administration is Using International Law to Block Cannabis Research in the United States

I’ve just posted a short paper that will soon appear in the American Journal of International Law Unbound (the journal’s online companion). The paper illuminates how the Trump Administration has used international law to block research on marijuana in the United States. The full paper, Using One Dying Regime to Save Another: The Influence of International Drug…

Posted by mikosra on September 22, 2020 in News, Updates, cannabis, convention, international, marihuana, marijuana, research, science, study, treaty, Trump

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