ASA

Eleventh Hour Blow to Scientific Freedom

Only eight days before the end of the Bush administration, the DEA issued a ruling rejecting the application of UMass Amherst Professor Lyle Craker for a license to cultivate research marijuana for use by scientists in FDA-approved research. The ruling, which contradicts the recommendation of DEA Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner, maintains the unique government monopoly over the supply of marijuana available for FDA-approved research.

Supplemental pre-hearing

ACLU's pre-hearing statement

Govt's Findings of Fact

The government's final filing summarizing arguments made in opposition to Professor Lyle Craker's application to the DEA to grow research grade marijuana for use by other scientists in FDA-approved studies of marijuana's medical value.

ACLU's Findings of Fact

The ACLU's final filing summarizing arguments made on behalf of Professor Lyle Craker's application to the DEA to grow research grade marijuana for use by other scientists in FDA-approved studies of marijuana's medical value.

Judge Bittner's Recommendation

The Kennedy/Kerry letter of support

University of MA's letter of support

February 5th letter to Holder from Olver

On February 5, 2009, Congressman John Olver, along with 15 other Congressmen and �women, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging the Attorney General to grant Professor Craker�s request for opportunity to respond to new officially noticed evidence and motion for reconsideration.

Report: Federal Monopoly Obstructs Medical Marijuana Research

Tue, 07 Apr 2009

Conflict of interest by University of Mississippi professor exposed

Congress urges DEA to OK medical cannabis research

On Monday, September 17, 2007, 45 Members of the House of Represenatives forwarded a letter to DEA Administrator Karen Tandy urging her to accept DEA Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner's February 2007 Opinion and Recommended Ruling.

House Judiciary Subcommittee Holds Oversight Hearing

On July 12, 2007, in the 110th Congress's first oversight hearing on the federal government's role regarding medical marijuana, Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) and US Representative Jerold Nadler (D-NY) grilled officials from ONDCP and DEA about their role in obstructing Prof. Craker's proposed research facility.

DEA Administrative Law Judge Rules that Cannabis Research is "in the public interest"

U.S. Department of Justice-appointed Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner issued an 87-page ruling today in favor of removing the government obstruction to medical cannabis research in the United States. University of Massachusetts-Amherst Professor Lyle Craker has led a six-year struggle to gain a DEA license to grow research-grade cannabis so that studies can be conducted to determine the full extent of marijuana's medical value.