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05/03/2006: "Medical Marijuana and the FDA"
April 27: NY Congressman Maurice Hinchey Leads Bipartisan House Coalition In Calling For FDA To Explain Baseless Anti-Medical Marijuana Policy
Twenty-Four Members Say Agency Needs To Start Responding To Science & Not To Political Pressure
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny22_hinchey/morenews/042706medmarijuanafdaletter.html
The National Review agrees, saying
"The FDA has proclaimed that there is no scientific support for the
medicinal benefits of marijuana. Yet the pronouncement appeared to be
driven more by politics than by science. The FDA's statement conflicts
with earlier studies, most notably one done in 1999 by the Institute
of Medicine, a non-profit medical advisory group. And then there are
experts such as Dr. Jerome Kassirer, a former editor of The New
England Journal of Medicine who says of the FDA's claim: "I think it's
ridiculous. The fact is there are circumstances where smoked marijuana
may be helpful to patients who are desperately ill." Such sparring may
be interesting, but in the end it is tangential to the policy
question: If some suffering patients believe they can find comfort in
smoking dope, and they don't interfere with anyone else, what
legitimate interest does the state have in prosecuting them?"
The left and the right are coming together on this issue. Eleven states have taken the lead and have medical marijuana laws on the books. Libertarians believe no one should be prosecuted for smoking pot, but let's at LEAST agree to take the patients out of the line of fire, OK?
As they say..."consider the source"
The FDA Awaits a Cure for Its Malaise
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fda30apr30,1,6025000.story?track=crosspromo&page=2&coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true
Ex-Head of F.D.A. Faces Criminal Inquiry
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/washington/29fda.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1146283200&en=488e5d05bb70e967&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin
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on Sunday, May 7th, Robert Robinson said
On April 20 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made an official statement regarding medical marijuana. The FDA did no new study or analysis; they simply rehashed the federal government’s longstanding position that marijuana is not a medicine.
It is a tragedy that we cannot depend on the information provided by our own Food and Drug Administration in this country. The FDA was created to protect the citizens of the United States from the harms associated with drugs by providing us with a scientific analysis of a drug's benefits versus risks.
NY NORML is disappointed, saddened and shocked by the FDA's misrepresentation about the medicinal use of marijuana. The FDA contention that: "no sound scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana" is misleading to say the least. The truth is that scientific studies done by many, including the US Institute of Medicine (1999), concluded that marijuana does indeed have medical uses.
If our own FDA cannot be trusted to make accurate, scientific analysis of drugs, and instead makes its decisions and policy based on politics, then who can we trust? It is time the federal government (FDA, DEA etc) stop using patients as pawns in this failed war on drugs. The science is already in on medical marijuana. Let doctors and scientists decide, not politicians.
