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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (19304)	4/15/2008 10:47:05 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Re: "right - pass the bong." What was that... er, Dweeb, was it? <g> (Sounds like you may have been 'partaking' of some sort of mind-altering substance already yourself to be so blissfully unaware of how the federal government has exercised it's blocks against medical research for decades in this area.) Do you even know that NO RESEARCH is permitted until and unless the FDA issues it's prior approval? Or that the FDA CANNOT legally even formally consider issuing an approval of a medical or scientific research proposal dealing with the study of marijuana UNTIL the DEA has FIRST issued an approval? (And the DEA --- naturally enough, protecting it's own policy statement and bureaucratic turf --- ALMOST NEVER issues any approvals for research proposals. that is, unless they feel confident that the investigation is structured in some kind of a way so as to be likely that it may come out with a finding of 'harmful'. :-) Or, are you aware that --- if by a miracle of miracles some research proposal passes BOTH the DEA and then the FDA's approval processes... the DEA can still even then most likely screw-up the study's results because legally the investigators are ONLY ALLOWED TO USE whatever material the government gives them in their study. They CANNOT source it anywhere else. (And many researchers have complained that the material the government has supplied is so variable and inconsistent as to render the study results unreliable.....)