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US: Medical Marijuana Advocates Sue Federal Government
KCBS News
Wednesday 21 Feb 2007 SAN FRANCISCO -- Armed with a new study showing cannabis can ease pain in some HIV patients, medical-marijuana advocates sued the federal Department of Health and Human Services over its claim that pot has no accepted medical uses. The lawsuit, filed in federal court by Americans for Safe Access, accuses the government of arbitrarily preventing ``sick and dying persons from seeking to obtain medicine that could provide them needed and often lifesaving relief.'' A spokesman for the group tells KCBS’ Bob Melrose that until the Food and Drug Administration rethinks its opinion on the possible health benefits of medical marijuana, the U-S Government can not make informed decisions regarding the drug. The Food and Drug Administration's position on medical marijuana ``is incorrect, dishonest and a flagrant violation of laws requiring the government to base policy on sound science,'' said Joe Elford, chief counsel for Americans for Safe Access. California voters made marijuana use legal for people with a doctor's recommendation in 1996. But because the U.S. government does not recognize pot's medical benefits, federal authorities can still arrest patients who use the drug with a prescription. Last week, researchers from the University of California at San Francisco reported in the journal Neurology that a test involving 50 HIV patients showed that those who smoked pot experienced much less pain than those given placebos. http://kcbs.com/
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