Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what's
happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Let's start off with the DEA. On Monday, they released a proposed rule to expand marijuana research.
For the first time, more than one institution would be permitted to
register with the agency and grow cannabis. The comment period runs
until May 22, 2020, and then final rules will appear – no
timeline for those. So this isn't happening in the near
future.
And we might also be waiting a while for state voting on
cannabis use. In Ohio, a ballot initiative was rejected because
it had too few valid signatures. A Nebraska campaign to put medical marijuana on
the ballot has suspended operations due to the coronavirus. In Florida, the issue won't come before the
voters in 2020, but may go before the state's Supreme Court.
New Approach South Dakota, a group supporting legalization
in that sate, is urging state residents to use absentee ballots,
fearing that
