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Weekly edition · October 9, 2026
This week's lead
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Senate letter · Grassley, Lee, Collins

Senator Mike Lee once pushed DEA to hold off on a kratom ban. Now he wants the whole plant scheduled. ([link removed])

In an October 7 letter, Sens. Chuck Grassley, Mike Lee and Susan Collins urged DEA and FDA to finalize the 7-OH ban and consider scheduling the entire kratom plant.
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Friday Fact
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A new meta-analysis of 63 studies in Psychological Medicine found that marijuana users in the general population had 2.05 times the odds of committing violence, and 3.75 times the odds of violence that results in a criminal conviction.
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Daily Wire · New on Fox News

Daily Wire covers new FDPS ad, “Football, Not Funerals” ([link removed])

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TDR Originals

DEA’s new drug guide points to state medical programs. Its own hearing record says they aren’t medicine. ([link removed])

Medicare hemp program faces appeal: “This is taxpayer funded marijuana” ([link removed])

Ken Sim makes his case for Vancouver’s drug plebiscite: “Stop stringing us around” ([link removed])

Sen. Chuck Grassley: “All kratom is deadly,” presses Trump admin to finalize 7-OH ban now ([link removed])

Legalization associated with an increase in marijuana-involved traffic fatalities ([link removed])

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Top Stories

Associated Press: Kevin Sabet on the hemp industry ([link removed])

The Week: Kevin Sabet on the Trump administration's coin-operated drug policy ([link removed])

Washington Post: How ketamine, kratom and other drugs are changing Cornell and other schools ([link removed])
SAM Deep Dive

Federal policy · 7 min read

Marijuana and Rescheduling

Schedule I, Schedule III, and what the DEA process actually decides. The explainer behind this week’s GAO news.
■ What Schedule I really means, and why ‘same category as heroin’ is a talking point, not an argument
■ How the rescheduling process works and where it stands
■ Why rescheduling is not legalization, and why it still matters
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New episode · High Stakes

Dr. David Courtwright, author of The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business, has spent decades studying drugs, addiction, and the industries built around them. He joined Dr. Kevin A. Sabet to discuss the potential consequences of marijuana legalization and commercialization.
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Latest News

Ohio enacts new limits on recreational marijuana ([link removed])

Utah health officials issue ‘urgent’ warning about kratom, ‘cat’s claw’ products after overdoses ([link removed])

A UW vaccine could stop fentanyl before it reaches the brain ([link removed])

Abandoned marijuana grows leave Oklahoma with a costly cleanup problem, state agencies say ([link removed])

Marijuana industry money is boosting Republicans who oppose legalization ([link removed])

HHS awards nearly $250M in addiction treatment, overdose prevention grants ([link removed])

Idaho voters to decide on whether Legislature alone can legalize marijuana ([link removed])

US advances first government-funded trials of psychedelic drug ibogaine ([link removed])

The FDA may soon approve its first psychedelic drug. But how to regulate it? ([link removed])

Experts issue medical cannabis warning to millions of Britons ([link removed])

North Carolina cannabis council considers public consumption policy for THC products ([link removed])

Union fight erupts at Missouri cannabis dispensary after 12 workers fired ([link removed])
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