The Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is touting the cancellation of another marijuana-related federal grant—this time targeting a program that's long tracked cannabis potency levels in seized illicit products.
The contract has historically been awarded to the University of Mississippi, which for decades was the sole federally authorized cultivator of marijuana for research purposes. But it's also received funding through the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to monitor cannabinoid content such as THC and CBD in confiscated cannabis.
That contract has now been ended as part of DOGE's mission to make significant government spending cuts.
"In the last two days, agencies terminated 148 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $420M and savings of $198M, including a $143K HHS contract for the 'potency monitoring of confiscated marijuana samples,'" DOGE said in an X post on Monday.
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