Pubdate: Sun, 31 Aug 2014
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA)
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Author: Bob Goodlatte
Page: E2

MEDICAL MARIJUANA TESTS ARE TAKING PLACE

The Times- Dispatch's premise in a recent editorial that "we can't 
run tests until we reclassify marijuana" is inaccurate. According to 
the National Institute on Drug Abuse ( NIDA), as of Jan. 31, there 
were 28 active research grants on the possible therapeutic uses of marijuana.

The NIDA, the Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA) and the Food and Drug 
Administration ( FDA) all have a clear course of action available for 
those applying to conduct this type of research. In May, the DEA even 
upped the amount of marijuana that can be produced for research 
purposes in the United States.

Regardless of the federal government's classification of marijuana as 
a Schedule 1 drug, clinical research can be conducted on marijuana 
and is being done today. To state otherwise is inaccurate.

REP. BOB GOODLATTE,

6TH DISTRICT, CHAIRMAN, HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. WASHINGTON.
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