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...film called World Without Cancer. At the Illinois state house, some 300 Laetrile backers passed out blue-and-white bumper stickers that read: LAETRILE WORKS! YOU BET YOUR LIFE. In Massachusetts, supporters delivered to the legislature 40 shopping bags stuffed with more than 12.000 pleas for legalization of the drug...
Many of the bills' sponsors are cancer sufferers or relatives of patients, and fervently believe in Laetrile. New Jersey Assemblyman John Gregorio, whose father has cancer and whose mother and two uncles died from it, takes regular doses of the drug...
Making up for lost time, the FDA is busily assembling all of the evidence against Laetrile. To strengthen the case, the National Cancer Institute is considering testing the drug on cancer patients. FDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy has organized a team of four experts to fly off at a moment's notice to testify before state legislatures. In addition, says Richard Merrill, FDA chief counsel: "We are likely to be more aggressive in enlightening the general public." The agency's lawyers are preparing to mount court challenges against the sale or production of Laetrile under the new state laws...
Scarce Apricots. Moreover, backers have not yet figured out how to manufacture the drug legally in some states-even if there were enough demand to make production profitable-without crossing a state line. Indiana, for instance, has few apricot trees. But the state has plenty of peach trees, so proponents are giving some thought to producing the drug from peach pits...
Even if production does begin in the states that have legalized Laetrile, most doctors will probably refuse to prescribe it for their patients. The Texas Medical Association has already urged its members not to use Laetrile, and other state medical groups are expected to follow suit. The drug would be left in the hands of the same quacks and medical mavericks who have been promoting it for years-and who are slowly beginning to win their battle, state by state...