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...fine and up to a year in prison. He had the firm support of the Justice Department, but the medical men of the Food and Drug Administration were opposed on the ground that an anti-LSD law would be about as enforceable as the Volstead Act. Chief adversary was FDA Commissioner James L. Goddard, who four months ago complained publicly about the harshness of existing antimarijuana laws. In a surprising turn last week, Dr. Goddard reluctantly endorsed the Johnson LSD bill during a congressional hearing before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce...
...month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration acknowledged that there are many solvents and cleaning agents just as effective as carbon tet but less likely to cause serious illness. It began a series of legal moves to forbid the interstate shipment of carbon tet for retail trade. If the FDA's drive succeeds, it will be up to the individual states to stop intrastate sales of a useful but dangerous chemical. One straw in the wind: the U.S. Coast Guard recently withdrew approval of carbon tet fire extinguishers on boats...
...right to treat his patient any way he thinks best. Dr. Dameshek reluctantly conceded that governmental restriction might be necessary. Whether the Government already has the right to impose restrictions is a matter of dispute within the Food and Drug Administration. So far, the faction which holds that FDA can only give information to doctors has prevailed. Now there is mounting pressure from the subcommittee chairman, Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson, for more stringent measures to control prescription of the drug...
Goddard's opinion, which carries considerably more weight than that of any private physician, was particularly surprising because the FDA director has been so strict in demanding that drug companies show clear proof of the efficacy and safety of their products before he allows them on the market. There is still almost no research, however, into what marijuana does-and does not do-to the human mind and body and no scientific evidence that proves or disproves that it is better or worse than alcohol...
...Thus the FDA director was in the contradictory position of approving-if only off the cuff-a drug that has not had thorough scientific inspection. He had previously complained that American families waste money on unneeded vitamin pills and had roundly condemned children's candy cigarettes-which he thinks might lead them eventually to the real thing. Last week, though he later qualified his remarks enough to note the legal and possible long-term hazards of marijuana, Goddard's basic equation of pot and liquor still stood. Immediate outrage followed. Among the most incensed was Dr. Robert...