Psychologists push government to review research marijuana applications 

The American Psychological Association is urging the federal government to deal with the backlog of applications to grow marijuana for scientific research. The University of Mississippi has long been the only site allowed to grow marijuana for research, but the DEA announced in 2016 it would consider licensing new suppliers. It got more than two dozen applications — but the APA says those have been "languishing" at the Department of Justice. "Scientific research cannot hope to keep pace with the ever expanding recreational and medicinal cannabis marketplace" without access to more approved cannabis products, the APA writes in a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr.