Max: Group Says Pot Policy Based on Fraud
Group challenges feds on medical pot
Armed with a new study showing the drug can ease pain in some HIV patients, medical-marijuana advocates sued the federal government Wednesday 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.'
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,' Joe Elford, said chief counsel for Americans for Safe Access.
Armed with a new study showing the drug can ease pain in some HIV patients, medical-marijuana advocates sued the federal government Wednesday 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.'
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,' Joe Elford, said chief counsel for Americans for Safe Access.
posted by Max Dobberstein at 2/21/2007 08:21:00 PM
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