Buried deep in the folds of the much-anticipated and discussed ad nauseam 2,702 pages of the $1-trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill is a paragraph that refers to “establishing a clearinghouse to collect and distribute samples and strains of marijuana for scientific research that includes marijuana and products containing marijuana lawfully available to patients or consumers in a State on a retail basis.”
Which means …?
This means that if you work as a cannabis researcher in a legal marijuana state or even a non-legal neighboring state, you will soon no longer have to rely on subpar weed from the University of Mississippi as your only source of research marijuana and you will no longer have to apply to the DEA for approval to obtain research THC oil.
And perhaps best of all, you will no longer have to store those substances, at the end of each day, in a 300-pound safe that you were required (by the DEA) to nail to the floor of your science laboratory.
One such research team at Portland State University, in the legal-since-2015 state of Oregon, was obliged to do just that.
Dr. Robert Strongin, professor of organic chemistry at PSU, said he and his team of Ph.D. candidates, whose research included vaporization and e-cigarettes, were “restricted all these years to working with tiny analytical samples of THC from standard chemical vendors approved to sell by the DEA. It was not ideal at all.”
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Buried deep in the folds of the much-anticipated and discussed ad nauseam 2,702 pages of the $1-trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill is a paragraph that refers to “establishing a clearinghouse to collect and distribute samples and strains of marijuana for scientific research that includes marijuana and products containing marijuana lawfully available to patients or consumers in a State on a retail basis.”
Which means …?
This means that if you work as a cannabis researcher in a legal marijuana state or even a non-legal neighboring state, you will soon no longer have to rely on subpar weed from the University of Mississippi as your only source of research marijuana and you will no longer have to apply to the DEA for approval to obtain research THC oil.
And perhaps best of all, you will no longer have to store those substances, at the end of each day, in a 300-pound safe that you were required (by the DEA) to nail to the floor of your science laboratory.
One such research team at Portland State University, in the legal-since-2015 state of Oregon, was obliged to do just that.
Dr. Robert Strongin, professor of organic chemistry at PSU, said he and his team of Ph.D. candidates, whose research included vaporization and e-cigarettes, were “restricted all these years to working with tiny analytical samples of THC from standard chemical vendors approved to sell by the DEA. It was not ideal at all.”
