Monday, April 15, 2013

Adequate and Well-Controlled Studies Proving Medical Efficacy of Cannabis Exist but Are Ignored by Marijuana Schedulers 

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Huff Post-politics by: Sunil Aggarwal, M.D., Ph.D. and Amanda Reiman, Ph.D., M.S.W. -

 

 ... "In the U.S., federal agencies have set-up onerous roadblocks that limit researchers' abilities to access marijuana -- the very impetus for private marijuana research to get started overseas, licensed by friendlier governments. A DEA judge actually ruled that the U.S. marijuana supply monopoly was not in the public interest in 2007, but this decision has been ignored. Many major medical societies want marijuana rescheduled or are urging a scheduling review be undertaken, including the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, and the Massachusetts Medical Society, publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine. In fact, there has been ongoing resistance to marijuana's placement in Schedule I ever since Congress first attempted it in 1970." ...

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