Late last week, in a speech at a medical marijuana conference flagged by Think Progress, Caltech theoretical physicist John H. Schwartz blasted the federal government's treatment of marijuana research. Schwartz described the Catch-22 situation set up by the "tag team" of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the National Institute on Drug Abuse: At the same time the government says there is insufficient research to change marijuana's designation from "a dangerous substance with no medical value," government bodies systematically block such research from taking place.Think Progress cited passages from Schwartz's pointed remarks:The most blatant example of this behavior [from the government] came last year, when NIDA blocked an FDA-approved clinical trial testing marijuana as a remedy for post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. It’s especially sad to note that the study participants were veterans, with PTSD deemed untreatable by other means. After 12 years of war, this is how we treat them.Continue Reading... … Read More
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