The Feds. (sad smiley face)

[beachguy in thongs]

THE FEDS SAY THEY WANT SCIENTIFIC
PROOF THAT MARIJUANA IS MEDICINE.

BUT DO THEY?

Three years ago scientists from the University of Massachusetts and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies* applied to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for a license to grow a research plot of marijuana.

No response.

A year ago, they asked the DEA for permission to import 10 grams from the Dutch Office of Medicinal Cannabis.

No response.

Then they asked the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to sell 10 grams from NIDA's marijuana farm at the University of Mississippi.

Still no response.

The researchers could, of course, get all the marijuana they need from any high school or college campus in the country but that's not legal. NIDA has a monopoly on the supply of marijuana that can be used for research.** The Institute seems to be using that monopoly to obstruct the very research they're supposed to be facilitating.

So the researchers are suing the DEA, NIDA, Health and Human Services and the National Institute of Health for "unreasonable delay" resulting in the obstruction of scientific research.

Science should be in the hands of scientists, not political ideologues.

Common Sense for Drug Policy
www.CommonSenseDrugPolicy.org www.DrugWarFacts.org
Mike Gray, Chair; Robert Field, Co-Chair

http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v15n1-html/mapsmmj.html

{The article was from Spring 2005. It looked pretty cool, so I posted it.}

[lemonboy]

Thanks for posting that. This is one of my favorite issues right now. More from December.
Oxford, MS -- University of Mississippi leaders are battling a legal challenge that threatens to end the school's legal monopoly to grow marijuana for research purposes.

"We will not give up without a fight," said Andy Mullins, executive assistant to Ole Miss Chancellor Robert Khayat. Critics of the Ole Miss research are just trying to get the federal contract, he said Friday.

For 36 years, Ole Miss has been the only school nationwide with the federal government's OK to manufacture marijuana under the supervision of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

But the Washington Post reported this week that some researchers are complaining about the quality of the Ole Miss-produced pot. They want a federal judge to allow others to legally produce pot for research.

During a hearing this week, DEA attorneys defended the marijuana at Ole Miss. Research professor Mahamoud ElSohly, who runs the program, said the marijuana inventory is more than adequate.

A decision on the case before Drug Enforcement Administration Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner is months away.

Professor: End The Monopoly

University of Massachusetts professor Lyle Craker is part of the group asking the judge to stop the federal government's marijuana monopoly.

"The government's marijuana just isn't strong enough," said Richard Doblin, a Craker supporter who directs the Massachusetts-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

Mullins said the accusations of low-quality marijuana at Ole Miss simply are unfounded.

"We know it is not the case and the federal government knows it is not the case," he said. "The government is arguing to keep it here.

"We feel like we are doing an excellent job and have a long history of doing an excellent job," Mullins said when reached by phone at his Oxford office.

The marijuana research program is a key component of the Ole Miss School of Pharmacy. Ole Miss grows the pot on a field west of the main campus. The university uses dedicated scientists with a worldwide reputation, he said.

Retired Ole Miss history professor David Sansing said the Oxford-based university has studied the pharmacology of plants for decades before it was awarded the first marijuana contract about 1970. "Our pharmacy school has always been recognized as a first-rate school," he said.

It also didn't hurt Ole Miss that the late 1st District U.S. Rep. Jamie Whitten was chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee when federal government grants for research programs were doled out. In the 1970s Whitten "was at the apex of his power at that time," Sansing said.

Appeared originally in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 12/17/2005 8:00:00 AM, Section A , Page 1

[Whos Carl]

I am confused. I read that 1st post did something else came back and it looked different. Whats going on?

[lemonboy]

He added formatting to it. :)

[beachguy in thongs]

I am confused. I read that 1st post did something else came back and it looked different. Whats going on?
Hah, lmao.


He added formatting to it. :)
Thanks, lemonboy. I needed to read that. Also, wasn't there something about the U. of Vermont?

[bonsaiguy]

Kind of makes you wonder if all those conspiracy stories about Dupont corp being responsible for it being outlawed to protect their nylon/petrochemical monopoly are true.

Universities are notorious for wanting the exclusive right to research things. It's a huge source of revenue for them and in the case of Ole Miss...guaranteed government walfare for years to come. The low quality weed could explain why we never hear of anyone trying to steal it.

[Canadabis]

Kind of makes you wonder if all those conspiracy stories about Dupont corp being responsible for it being outlawed to protect their nylon/petrochemical monopoly are true.

Universities are notorious for wanting the exclusive right to research things. It's a huge source of revenue for them and in the case of Ole Miss...guaranteed government walfare for years to come. The low quality weed could explain why we never hear of anyone trying to steal it.

Having a truck too crappy to steal can be a bonus...but having weed so crummy teenagers wouldnt dream up plots to grab it...thats a special kind of sad.

[Purplekush]

If weed becomes legal it will fuck everything up. So far in California it has fucked up, so many people grew the plants the people that didn't like marijuana complained because of pot smells, also it flooded the market. Weed became so cheap and shitty because of a bunch of new growers that were seeking profits only messed it up. No offence to the new growers (There's a new start to everything) but damn man, it really messed it up for the true growers.

[beachguy in thongs]

What ever happened to the 80% of American people supporting marijuana poll from two years ago?

[justinsane]

thanks beachguy for posting another eye opening thread

[beachguy in thongs]

:smokin: No, thank you.

I, usually, post and then see.

[SomeGuy]

Kind of makes you wonder if all those conspiracy stories about Dupont corp being responsible for it being outlawed to protect their nylon/petrochemical monopoly are true.


Thats not a rumor. Andrew Mellon who was the secretary of treasury at the time appointed Anslinger who stated the whole reefer madness, anti-marijuana period. Andrew Mellon had a lot of money invested in the DuPont chemical company who was responsible for most of the paper...ect...All of a sudden a new method of using Hemp became known which would have crashed the Dupont monopoly so Mellon appointed Anslinger....I think Anslinger was his nephew in-law but im gonna have to check.

[LovelyTasha]

The suits suck. Maybe one day they'll see it our way.. Unlikely it seems.

<3 Tasha

[gangagirl]

The FEDS SUCK. They challenged the rights of a liscenseholder in colorado and won because growers will allegedly sell their weed and it would enter into the Commerce of the whole US. So now I can smoke and grow in colorado unless the DEA wants to bust me. Good thing I'm small time and they won't bother. Connisour not commercial, that me. Long live Colorado!