The University of Mississippi lost its contract with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) that allowed it to cultivate marijuana for federally approved studies, Cannabis Wire first reported.
Ole Miss was the only institution in the U.S. allowed to grow cannabis for research purposes for over five decades under an exclusive contract it’s held since 1968.
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That contract will now end in 2028, and the school will not seek to renew it, a university spokesman told Marijuana Moment.
That’s despite opening a new Resource Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research earlier this year.
In 2021, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) started licensing more cultivators to provide more variety of research-grade cannabis and improve product quality.
But even with the new licenses,
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