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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (7324)4/26/2006 10:41:21 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Respond to of 71588
 
"Just how much do politics play a roll in FDA...?"

HEre are a few posts about it:
Message 21059041
Message 22233242
Message 20629229
Message 14578840

This sums it up nicely: "Marijuana as a medicine—whatever its risk and benefits are eventually determined to be—may turn out to be much less important than the question of whether we can count on agencies like the FDA to be honest in their dealings."