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MARIJUANA RESCHEDULING COULD ‘EASE RESEARCHER ACCESS’ FOR STUDIES, FEDERAL
AGENCY SAYS IN OVERDUE REPORT TO CONGRESS
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Kyle Jaeger
A federal traffic safety agency has published an overdue report to Congress
identifying barriers to marijuana research toward developing impaired driving
detection technology—pointing out that rescheduling “may ease researcher access
to products” for studies even though they will continue to be prohibited from
accessing cannabis from state-licensed dispensaries.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released the report
on Friday, about five months after a congressionally imposed deadline. The
agency, under the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), was given the
research mandate upon enactment of a broader infrastructure bill that President
Joe Biden signed into law in 2022.
The legislation was also aimed at allowing researchers to study the actual
marijuana that consumers are purchasing from state-legal dispensaries instead of
having to use only government-grown cannabis. But while NHTSA recognized that it
was required to explore that issue and make recommendations for facilitating
access, the report seems to miss the mark on that point and instead talks about
how the agency is “not aware of any statutory or regulatory barriers” to
creating an existing federal marijuana research center that is not focused on
access to dispensary products.
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The law the president signed, however, directed NHTSA to issue a report that
“describes methods for, and contains recommendations with respect
to…establishing a national 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.”
In any case, the report does reinforce the idea that the Schedule I status of
cannabis continues to inhibit research into the potential risks and benefits of
the plant and its constituents due to onerous, multilayered administrative
requirements to become registered to access marijuana.
It states that “any researcher using Federal funds, regardless of the legal
status of cannabis in the State in which they operate, must be registered with
DEA and their State to obtain licenses and permissions to conduct research using
cannabis.”
“[T]here are extensive requirements for researchers to obtain those licenses,
including having a secure facility and appropriate pharmacy and testing
facilities on site,” the report says. “Rescheduling cannabis may ease researcher
access to products.”
However, after outlining the complex registration steps for researching Schedule
I drugs, NHTSA said “these steps are not necessarily barriers to conducting
research,” and each part of the process “serves the purpose of protecting
research participants and/or preventing diversion of cannabis to unauthorized
individuals.”
“Some regulatory relief from these steps could be achieved if cannabis were
removed from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, which is reserved for
drugs that have ‘no currently accepted medical use,'” it says.
The marijuana research language that was included in the underlying
infrastructure legislation was championed by Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), who
also sought a status update from NHTSA and DOT a year prior to the due date.
“Today’s report is a first step towards developing a science-based standard to
identify impaired driving after consuming marijuana,” Hickenlooper told
Marijuana Moment on Friday. “We should take common sense steps to reduce red
tape and create a reliable, evidence-based standard.”
Meanwhile, NHTSA published a separate draft report last month that said there’s
“relatively little research” backing the idea that THC concentration in the
blood can be used to determine impairment, calling into question laws in several
states that set “per se” limits for cannabinoid metabolites.
The traffic safety agency is far from the first to recognize the challenges of
researching marijuana while it remains a Schedule I controlled substance.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow has repeatedly
criticized the current system and said she personally hesitates to study
cannabis for that reason.
However, notably, NIDA did not explicitly deny a GOP congressman’s claims during
a committee hearing on Thursday that Volkow is “adamantly opposed” to
rescheduling marijuana. That said, the agency did point Marijuana Moment to her
past comments to discuss the difficulties of studying Schedule I drugs.
In response to a 2022 directive from President Joe Biden, the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) carried out a review into marijuana scheduling
and ultimately advised the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to move it from
Schedule I to Schedule III. That agency is currently finalizing its report, but
the timing is unclear.
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