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US: Anti-Drug Group Applauds FDA Announcement Denying The Medicalization

EWorldWire.com

Saturday 22 Apr 2006

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ALBANY, N.Y./EWORLDWIRE/April 22, 2006 --- DAMMADD (DADS AND MAD MOMS
AGAINST DRUG DEALERS) and other parent groups from all over the country
have been petitioning the FDA to make a ruling on the medicalization of
marijuana. After years of letter writing, the FDA agreed with arguments
against legalization and with the 1999 report by the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academy of Science. In the report, there were
six recommendations made, with recommendation number 5:

"If there is any future for marijuana as a medicine, it lies in its
isolated components, the cannabinoids and their synthetic derivatives.
Isolated cannabinoids will provide more reliable effects than crude
plant mixtures. Therefore, the purpose of clinical trials of smoked
marijuana would not be to develop marijuana as a licensed drug, but such
trials could be a first step towards the development of rapid-onset,
nonsmoked cannabinoid delivery systems."

Pro drug organizations such as the Drug Policy Alliance and the
Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) have worked to spin the truth to deceive
the American public and ignore the new and upcoming cannabis medicine
Sativex that has received phase III trial approvals from the FDA. In a
statement issued April 21 on
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0421-06.htm, MPP Director of
Government Relations Aaron Houston alleges the position adopted by the
FDA is political, that it reflects "the decline of the FDA as an
independent scientific agency," rather than a non-partisian
decision-making authority.

DAMMADD Founder Steven Steiner said, "The bottom line is these
organizations are using the medicalization issue as a stepping stone for
full legalization of marijuana."

Steiner is calling on all Americans to join the fight against all
organizations which, by virtue of this stance, work to erode and destroy
family values and use sick people to further their agendas.

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