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...federal government gave proponents of the medical use of marijuana a small boost on Friday when the Department of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the White House?s hard-nosed Office of National Drug Policy, issued new guidelines that make it easier for researchers to obtain marijuana. The department said it will now provide legitimate scientists with top-grade marijuana grown on government land on a "cost-reimbursement basis." The new government rules are far less than some researchers might wish -- no funding accompanies the new policy, evidently -- and they are certainly much less than what Californians voted...
...latest rules are a baby step but a necessary first step," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. "If you want to study the medical benefits of marijuana, you can?t just buy it off the street. You can?t prove anything about the drug without some standardization, which means utilizing pure research-grade samples." There is evidence, for example, that marijuana can help fight glaucoma and help stem the nausea associated with chemotherapy. The new HHS policy will loosen the rules enough to make top-grade marijuana available without hassles to study these and other possible benefits -- and to help...
Just in time for all those Memorial Day barbecues and picnics: margarine that can help cut your cholesterol. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new cholesterol-reducing margarine called Benecol, which is made with a substance found in pine trees. Available next week, it follows on the heels of Take Control, a spread containing a natural soybean extract, which hit the shelves last week. The two new products are among the first of a new series of foods that are designed to act like drugs and promote health or prevent disease. "The studies show that these products...
ODDEST ARTIFACT A drug boss's diamond-studded Colt .45 handgun...
...HISTORY Museums are there to remind us of higher things. Maybe this is why the Drug Enforcement Administration is opening a museum this week. By next year when the Museum of Sex opens, the archiving of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll will be complete...