Katelyn Baker
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A bipartisan group of USA lawmakers has introduced legislation they say would make it easier for researchers to study the "medical effectiveness and safety" of marijuana.
The bill would allow private manufacturing and distribution of marijuana for the sole goal of research. That's consistent with the numbers before marijuana was legalized in 2014, and about the same as the national rate. "Our drug policy was never meant to act as an impediment to conducting legitimate medical research. This legislation is crucial to that effort because it removes the unnecessary administrative barriers that deter qualified researchers from rigorously studying medical marijuana". We need empirical scientific evidence to clearly determine whether marijuana has medicinal benefits and, if so, how it would be used most effectively. Currently, the only marijuana available to be used in research legally comes from a single contract the National Institute on Drug Abuse holds with the University of Mississippi. It is now a Schedule I drug, meaning the agency does not consider it to have any medical benefits, and considers it to have a high potential for abuse. If a parent thinks it's wrong to use marijuana, their child is four times less likely to use it, he says. As for using marijuana for medicinal purposes, Harris said the question is still out there on what specific illnesses - beyond a handful of known benefits to those who suffer with illnesses including cancer and glaucoma - it could help treat.
"There are countless reports of marijuana's medicinal benefits, but patients, doctors, pharmacists, and policymakers must have more to rely on than anecdotal evidence", Griffith said in a statement.
"This in no way changes my opinion at all of legalization of recreational marijuana", Harris said.
"Statutory, regulatory, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers have paralyzed science and threatened the integrity of research freedom in this area", according to a Brookings Institute report issued in the fall that called on the United States government to end its "war on medical marijuana research".
But marijuana clubs have proven a harder sell here than legalizing the drug in the first place.
Representative Harris told The Washington Post that regardless of what the DEA decides, he's doing what he can do now to open the door for more research, essentially creating a "carve-out" within Schedule 1 for marijuana research.
A noted difference in the survey shows 13 percent of students under the age of 13 in Mesa county admitted to trying marijuana at least once as compared to nine percent in the rest of the state.
The bill is also being sponsored by Oregon Democrat U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Virginia Republican U.S. Rep. H. Morgan Griffith and California Democrat U.S. Rep. Sam Farr. "It's outrageous", Blumenauer said in a statement, according to the Sentinel. Colorado's constitution doesn't allow nor ban public use.
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The bill would allow private manufacturing and distribution of marijuana for the sole goal of research. That's consistent with the numbers before marijuana was legalized in 2014, and about the same as the national rate. "Our drug policy was never meant to act as an impediment to conducting legitimate medical research. This legislation is crucial to that effort because it removes the unnecessary administrative barriers that deter qualified researchers from rigorously studying medical marijuana". We need empirical scientific evidence to clearly determine whether marijuana has medicinal benefits and, if so, how it would be used most effectively. Currently, the only marijuana available to be used in research legally comes from a single contract the National Institute on Drug Abuse holds with the University of Mississippi. It is now a Schedule I drug, meaning the agency does not consider it to have any medical benefits, and considers it to have a high potential for abuse. If a parent thinks it's wrong to use marijuana, their child is four times less likely to use it, he says. As for using marijuana for medicinal purposes, Harris said the question is still out there on what specific illnesses - beyond a handful of known benefits to those who suffer with illnesses including cancer and glaucoma - it could help treat.
"There are countless reports of marijuana's medicinal benefits, but patients, doctors, pharmacists, and policymakers must have more to rely on than anecdotal evidence", Griffith said in a statement.
"This in no way changes my opinion at all of legalization of recreational marijuana", Harris said.
"Statutory, regulatory, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers have paralyzed science and threatened the integrity of research freedom in this area", according to a Brookings Institute report issued in the fall that called on the United States government to end its "war on medical marijuana research".
But marijuana clubs have proven a harder sell here than legalizing the drug in the first place.
Representative Harris told The Washington Post that regardless of what the DEA decides, he's doing what he can do now to open the door for more research, essentially creating a "carve-out" within Schedule 1 for marijuana research.
A noted difference in the survey shows 13 percent of students under the age of 13 in Mesa county admitted to trying marijuana at least once as compared to nine percent in the rest of the state.
The bill is also being sponsored by Oregon Democrat U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Virginia Republican U.S. Rep. H. Morgan Griffith and California Democrat U.S. Rep. Sam Farr. "It's outrageous", Blumenauer said in a statement, according to the Sentinel. Colorado's constitution doesn't allow nor ban public use.
News Moderator: Katelyn Baker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Teen Marijuana Use In Colorado Found Lower Than National Average
Author: Jodi Jackson
Photo Credit: None Found
Website: The Comment
