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title: "Massive DEA Cannabis Scandal: No Oversight"
description: The failure of DEA under Thomas Prevoznik allowed tainted cannabis to reach consumers and blocked critical medical research, calling for urgent reform.
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# Massive DEA Cannabis Scandal: No Oversight

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- 7 July 2025

**WASHINGTON, D.C. / ACCESS Newswire / July 6, 2025 / **The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) **exists to "prevent, detect, and investigate the diversion of controlled substances while ensuring an adequate and uninterrupted supply for legitimate medical, commercial, and scientific needs**". Yet under the leadership of Deputy Administrator **Thomas Prevoznik**, the DEA's Diversion Control Division has catastrophically failed this mission. Instead of protecting public health, the agency has allowed contaminated cannabis to flood state markets-poisoning consumers-while simultaneously blocking federally compliant pharmaceutical research that could save lives. This is not just bureaucratic incompetence; it is systemic negligence bordering on malpractice.

**1. DEA's Mission Failure: Poisoned Cannabis, Zero Oversight**

**The Massachusetts Scandal: A Case Study in Regulatory Collapse**

In Massachusetts, **Assured Testing Laboratories**-a facility responsible for testing 25% of the state's cannabis-was caught **falsifying safety reports**, concealing contamination, and approving products that should have failed for **yeast, mold, and microbial toxins**. Thousands of tainted products reached consumers, yet the DEA:

 

- **Took no enforcement action**
- **Issued no national recall**
- **Failed to intervene** despite its mandate to prevent diversion and ensure safety.

 

The DEA, under Prevoznik, has **abdicated its duty**, leaving Americans exposed to dangerous products while offering no recourse.

**2. Blocking Medical Breakthroughs: The DEA's War on Science**

While turning a blind eye to contaminated street cannabis, the DEA has **actively obstructed** federally approved pharmaceutical research. **MMJ BioPharma**, a company developing cannabis-based treatments for **Huntington's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis**, has faced **seven years of bureaucratic sabotage** despite:

- Holding **FDA Investigational New Drug (IND) approvals**
- Securing **Orphan Drug Designation** for Huntington's therapy
- Passing **DEA security inspections**.

Yet, Prevoznik's division **refuses to grant MMJ a bulk manufacturing license**, citing a **retroactive "Bona Fide Supply Agreement" (BFSA) requirement** that creates an impossible **Catch-22**:

- **No supplier will sign a contract without DEA approval.**
- **DEA won't approve without a signed contract**.

This obstruction is **not just regulatory failure-it's deliberate stonewalling**. As MMJ's legal filings reveal, DEA Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) operate in a **structurally biased system**, where registrants win only **20-25% of cases**, and the DEA **overturns nearly all pro-registrant rulings**.

**3. The Human Cost: Patients Suffer While Illicit Markets Thrive**

The DEA's hypocrisy is staggering:

- **Patients with epilepsy, cancer, and neurological disorders** are denied access to **standardized, pharmaceutical-grade cannabis**112.
- Meanwhile, **unregulated THC products**-laced with **pesticides, mold, and heavy metals**-flood the market, making consumers sick 15.

Prevoznik's DEA has created the **worst of both worlds**:  
**No protection for consumers** from tainted products.  
**No pathway for research** into life-saving medicines.

**4. Time for Accountability: Fire Prevoznik, Overhaul the DEA**

The solution is clear:

1. **Remove Thomas Prevoznik** for **gross negligence and regulatory malpractice**.
2. **Transfer cannabis oversight to the FDA/NIH**, where science-not stigma-guides policy.
3. **Investigate DEA's Diversion Control Division** for systemic bias and corruption.

As **MMJ BioPharma CEO Duane Boise** stated:

*"The DEA's Diversion Control Division, under Prevoznik's leadership, has failed to protect the public, failed to uphold science, and failed to meet even the most basic standards of competence."*

**Fire Thomas Prevoznik: A Call to Action**

The DEA's mission statement is a **sham** under Prevoznik's watch. Americans are being **poisoned by untested cannabis** while **terminal patients** are denied potential cures. **Congress must intervene**, the courts must act, and the public must demand **accountability**.

**Enough is enough.** It's time to **end the DEA's obstructionism** and put **public health over bureaucracy**.

MMJ is Represented by Attorney Megan Sheahan and Associates

**CONTACT:**  
Madison Hisey  
media@mmjih.com  
203-231-8583

**SOURCE: **MMJ International Holdings

 

 

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