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San
Mateo
County
Votes
to
Study
Medicinal
Marijuana:
Says
Research
Will
Provide
Access
for
Patients
5/15/98
As municipalities all over
California struggle to find appropriate ways to implement proposition 215,
officials in San Mateo County, which includes part of San Francisco, think
they might have found a way to bypass the legal complications of the buyer's
clubs and provide marijuana directly to those who need it most. Last
week, county supervisors voted three to one to develop a research study
into the medicinal uses of marijuana. If it goes forward, the project
would run for three years and include as many as 2,000 patients who suffer
from a variety of ailments thought to benefit from marijuana. And
if it is successful, county supervisors hope the results could lend support
to 215 and even lead to a change in federal laws.
The biggest hurdle facing
the proposed study now is approval from the FDA, DEA and other regulatory
agencies, who control access to the US' only legal source of marijuana.
For the past twenty years, the government has approved access only for
those clinical studies which seek to show the harmful effects of marijuana.
Researchers who want to study the potential benefits of the drug have been
rejected outright or stalled in red tape for years. Nevertheless,
proponents of the San Mateo project hope their chances will be improved
by the conclusions of an expert panel convened by the National Institutes
of Health last February, which acknowledged the need for further clinical
research on medical marijuana.
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Issue #42, 5/15/98
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