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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2006 98(13):888-889; doi:10.1093/jnci/djj288
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NEWS

Despite Research, FDA Says Marijuana Has No Benefit

Renee Twombly

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The Food and Drug Administration issued a statement in April that no sound scientific studies support the medicinal use of marijuana for treatment. This conclusion left some researchers puzzled.

"I don't understand where that came from," said John Benson, M.D., a professor of medicine at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, who chaired an Institute of Medicine panel that wrote a 267-page report, Marijuana and Medicine, Assessing the Science Base, published in 1999. "We found sufficient evidence that [smoking marijuana] had benefits for some patients, such as to help with nausea and chemotherapy for cancer treatment. We recommended that further research be done, but it hasn't been."

These researchers say that such studies do exist and point to benefits both from smoked marijuana and its derivatives. Although everyone agrees that more research is needed, some who want to study smoked marijuana charge that new work has been hampered by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Limited Studies and Government Regulation

Angst and Frustration Limit Research


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