Last week the trusty and ever reliable folks over at the Food and Drug Administration released one of their handy-dandy reports. Somehow they have mysteriously, without providing any documented testing or research, made a report materialize out of thin air that states that it had "definitively established that marijuana has no medical use or value." Really?
I think somebody's high.
Yes, to all of the eager minds who have been asking for so long, then again, some of you might have forgotten the question quite some time ago, the never political FDA has said they have made their absolute, positive, locked-up-tight-in-the-vault decision about the medicinal value of marijuana. Put away your bong grandma, the FDA said you're not fooling anybody.
According to Slate.com article All Smoke,
The FDA's statement implies that the agency reached its conclusion about marijuana after conducting a new serious analysis of the existing scientific literature on the drug. But of course no such analysis was reported in the medical literature and, in fact, no identifiable official at the FDA took responsibility for last week's advisory. It was just put out there as a statement of fact.
They go on to provide this link to a 288 page report of actual in depth documented medical studies and research conducted by National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine (an organization chartered by Congress to provide independent, nonpartisan scientific and technological advice).
Nonpartisan scientific advice. I like the sound of that. About the only thing the FDA's oh so stern "Inter-Agency Advisory" is useful for is backup rolling paper.
Puff.
See Article: Slate.com article All Smoke
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