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...vote came after almost two hours of debate and testimony from doctors, activists and medicinal marijuana smokers. With this petition, the council asks the state legislature to authorize Cambridge to take advantage of a now-defunct Food and Drug Administration (FDA) program which has allowed patients to smoke cannabis under heavy supervision...
Marijuana is useful in treating multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, AIDS, herpes and the side effects associated with chemotherapy, Grinspoon said. However, the FDA currently classifies the drug as a Schedule I drug, which means it can only be used in government experiments, and cannot be prescribed by doctors. Heroin and LSD are also Schedule I drugs...
...experimental FDA program, which has recently been phased out, made cannabis available to individuals in some states for medical purposes, under very tight supervision...
...will continue to offer free pills to those who cannot afford the drug or obtain insurance coverage. Another worry is side effects, including inflammation of the pancreas, numbness in the hands and feet, and diarrhea. Most important, DDI has yet to pass the rigorous testing usually required by the FDA. "We are giving DDI a status it has not earned, and we are lowering the scientific standards for drug approval," complains Dr. Deborah Cotton of Harvard, who reviewed the DDI approval application. FDA chief David Kessler justifies the decision by saying that "people are dying." Whether DDI can forestall their...
...counteract existing cancers. Rosenberg, however, maintains that he has ongoing animal experiments to support his work and that he submitted extensive unpublished research data before obtaining permission to proceed: "This was reviewed for eight months by about 50 scientists on at least five committees at the NIH and FDA...