At some point over the course of each year, we like to take stock of where psychedelics stand — our own version of a trip around the sun. The story of the last 12 months is a bit more exciting. While the federal government has finally begun to stir, the most concrete, fastest-moving developments
President Trump has announced he will nominate Todd Blanche — his former personal attorney, who has been running the Department of Justice in an acting capacity — to serve as permanent attorney general. I wrote back in April about the personnel shuffle that put Blanche in the acting AG chair and what it might mean
In the summer of 2017, Phish lit up Madison Square Garden with a historic 13-night run. Your friends at Budding Trends believe the marijuana rescheduling decision calls for a rollout just as monumental, so we’ve created the Budding Trends Baker’s Dozen as a fitting homage.
Following the federal government’s move to reschedule medical marijuana from
Dr. Marty Makary resigned as FDA commissioner last week, barely a year after his Senate confirmation. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed the departure and indicated the agency is searching for a replacement. Kyle Diamantas, FDA’s deputy commissioner for Food, will serve as acting commissioner in the meantime. The vacancy arrives at an extraordinarily
“What a long, strange trip it’s been.”
When we launched Budding Trends years ago as a modest little blog focused on cannabis law, the idea that we’d one day spend serious time tracking potential widespread access to psychedelics was, to put it mildly, not part of the original pitch deck. And yet, here we are.
This is the last of 13 posts describing the impacts of marijuana’s rescheduling. An homage to Phish’s historic run at Madison Square Garden in the Summer of 2017, Budding Trends Baker’s Dozen has addressed how rescheduling affects various areas of the law and our daily lives. We hope you’ve enjoyed the run.
The story of
The Trump administration’s interest in psychedelics as medicine has continued to come into focus over the past several weeks, with two developments suggesting that momentum at the federal level continues to grow. Both President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continue to take actions signaling their support for the
Here at Budding Trends, we like to roll up our “Top 10 Weed Roundup” between the sacred and renowned 420 holidays. Each year, we pack a recap post with 10 highly read blog posts since the previous 420 to see what’s shakin’ on shakedown street over the last year — and we have seen
As the frozen precipitation is continuing to thaw across the upper part of Mississippi, the Mississippi legislature continues to forge ahead in this year’s legislative session. If you tuned into the webinar we hosted on January 14, you heard our Mississippi government affairs colleague, Spencer Ritchie, discuss the cannabis-related legislation he expected to see this
It’s that time of year again. Our annual round-up featuring some of the most read content on Budding Trends in the past year. This year’s edition has a little something for everyone: marijuana, hemp, mushrooms, state law, federal law, banking, intellectual property, and more!
Before we dive right in, we want to plug our January