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Newsbrief:
Dr.
Donald
Abrams
Receives
FDA
Approval
for
First
Human
Vaporizer
Research
12/5/03
from the e-mail bulletin
of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, http://www.maps.org
FDA has approved Dr. Donald
Abrams' study comparing cannabinoid blood levels, carbon monoxide levels,
and subjective effects in human subjects who smoke marijuana and (at a
different time) inhale vapors from the same amount of marijuana in the
Volcano vaporizer (http://www.vapormed.de).
This historic study will begin in early 2004.
The only remaining milestone
that is required before it makes financial and political sense to initiate
a major medical marijuana drug development effort is for NIDA's monopoly
on the supply of marijuana that can be used in FDA-approved research to
be broken. MAPS hopes to accomplish this by either obtaining a DEA
license for the UMass Amherst project (most desirable) or by obtaining
a DEA permit to import marijuana from the Dutch Office of Medicinal Cannabis
(less desirable). DEA is still leisurely reviewing applications for
both of these sources of supply.
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