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Old 04-30-2006, 12:47 PM   #11 (permalink)
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FDA Denies Medical Value of Marijuana *
Source: Monitor View April 30, 2006 Texas*
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, for reasons that are far from clear, chose to enter the debate over medical marijuana with a thoroughly unscientific — one might even say anti-scientific — blanket denial that marijuana has any medical value at all. Specifically, the grandiosely titled “Inter-Agency Advisory Regarding Claims That Smoked Marijuana Is a Medicine” referenced a “past examination” that “concluded that no sound scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human data supported the safety or efficacy of marijuana for general medical use.”
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