- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has cleared a bill that would allow researchers examining cannabis to get the plant from dispensaries, Marijuana Moment reports.
- Currently, researchers can only obtain marijuana through the National Institute for Drug Abuse, which has just a single source, the University of Mississippi.
- The provision will allow researchers conduct impaired driving research using marijuana that people actually buy and would also allow interstate distribution of cannabis to scientists in jurisdictions yet to legalize..
- It was included in a transit bill, the INVEST in America Act.
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