The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) plans to grow 3,200,000 grams of cannabis for research purposes in 2020. This is a 30 percent increase from how much they authorized in 2019 . The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in the United States grows all of its marijuana each year in one federally licensed cultivation facility which is a farm at the University of Mississippi. Marijuana has been a Schedule I drug in the United States since the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.  The War on Drugs led by Richard Nixon called for the ban of cannabis in the United States. Ironically, the National Commission of Marihuana and Drug Abuse that Nixon hired to prove the dangers of cannabis ended up instead recommending cannabis be decriminalized based on their findings. So here we are, all ...

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