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FDA Accepts Protocol for Planned Study of Marijuana for PTSD
#14426387 - 05/09/11 07:23 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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On April 28, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted MAPS' protocol design for our study of marijuana for symptoms of PTSD in war veterans, stating that our revised protocol successfully addresses their previous concerns, pending information on the source of the marijuana to be used. Once again, the FDA has demonstrated its willingness to evaluate studies on the basis of scientific merit rather than political partisanship.
Although both MAPS and the FDA are satisfied with the protocol design, we cannot begin the study until it passes yet another review process with the National Institute on Drug Abuse/Public Health Service (NIDA/PHS). This redundant review, which may take another year or more, is required solely because NIDA has a monopoly on the supply of marijuana for research. NIDA/PHS must review and accept the protocol before allowing us to purchase marijuana from NIDA. This process is biased from the start, since NIDA's mission does not include exploring the potential beneficial uses of marijuana.
MAPS has been pressuring the federal government through hearings, lawsuits, and appeals for over a decade to allow us to grow our own marijuana. The DEA has refused to accept the recommendation of its own Administrative Law Judge that it would be in the public interest for Professor Lyle Craker of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to receive a license to grow marijuana for research regulated by the FDA. We're now waiting for the final ruling to come from the DEA. We will then sue yet again in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and make an even stronger case against the federal obstruction of research and for the need for state-level reform.
Many U.S. veterans already use medical marijuana to deal with their symptoms of PTSD. MAPS is seeking to conduct the first clinical trial testing the use of the smoked or vaporized marijuana plant in PTSD patients. Now PHS/NIDA will decide if MAPS can obtain marijuana for 50 suffering veterans.
http://www.maps.org/media/update/#1
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learningtofly
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Re: FDA Accepts Protocol for Planned Study of Marijuana for PTSD [Re: skatealex2]
#14426431 - 05/09/11 07:33 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Finally war has indirectly caused SOMETHING useful.
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destructo_low
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Re: FDA Accepts Protocol for Planned Study of Marijuana for PTSD [Re: skatealex2]
#14426484 - 05/09/11 07:44 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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NIDA/PHS must review and accept the protocol before allowing us to purchase marijuana from NIDA.
They better not try to deduct business expenses on their taxes for growing and selling the marijuana. With the IRS going after all the dispensaries doing that, that would seriously piss me off for them to get away with it. Goddamn our hypocritical country.
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Re: FDA Accepts Protocol for Planned Study of Marijuana for PTSD [Re: destructo_low]
#14428417 - 05/10/11 06:17 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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"waiting for the final ruling to come from the DEA"
'Final Ruling'? I didn't know that the DEA was a judicial branch of government.
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digitalemu
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Re: FDA Accepts Protocol for Planned Study of Marijuana for PTSD [Re: starfire_xes]
#14428926 - 05/10/11 09:09 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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starfire_xes said: "waiting for the final ruling to come from the DEA"
'Final Ruling'? I didn't know that the DEA was a judicial branch of government.
That's the big problem there..... A few guys in suits can magically decide a substance should be illegal without any proof that a substance is harmful. They always go based on something like news of one or two people being harmed by a drug that can get you high rather than truly scientific evidence. They don't care about the fact that more people are killed by Tylenol(acetaminophen) in a year than a drug under review by them. The only thing they care about is drugs that can get you high, in fact I really think they should be called the "Anti Getting High Police" because they do not care if a drug is harmless or not, only if it can make you get high. And what's wrong with getting high? Who does people getting high really hurt? Mainly big alcohol and pharma, and other consumer goods/services. Think how little you would need to buy if all the entertainment you needed is obtained from a pill or smoking marijuanna? People would not go out and buy alcohol because of it's harmful characteristics, people would not buy as many TV's, people would not go out to movies. The only thing the DEA is are an enforcement for profit organization, they are definitely not there for the good of the people.
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