Miss. Monopoly on Pot Should End, Judge Says

The federal government should allow the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to grow marijuana for medical research, an administrative judge ruled last week in a nonbinding decision. Such a move would end a monopoly on cultivation held by the University of Mississippi.

The ruling recommends that the federal Drug Enforcement Administration reverse its December 2004 decision to deny permission to Massachusetts and a faculty member there, Lyle E. Craker, who would cultivate the

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