> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:54:14 -0700
> From: Allan Erickson <allan_e@...>
> Subject: MAP: US: PR (ACLU): Members of Congress Ask
> DEA to Stop Obstructing Medical Marijuana Research
>
> Members of Congress Ask DEA to Stop Obstructing
> Medical Marijuana
> Research
>
http://www.aclu.org/drugpolicy/medmarijuana/31863prs20070918.html
>
> A letter signed by 45 members of the U.S. House of
> Representatives will
> be delivered today to the U.S. Drug Enforcement
> Administration (DEA)
> demanding an end to the obstruction of scientific
> research aimed at
> developing marijuana as a legal prescription
> medicine.
>
> The bipartisan letter, co-sponsored by Reps. John
> Olver (D-MA) and Dana
> Rohrabacher (R-CA), urges DEA Administrator Karen
> Tandy to follow the
> February 2007 ruling of Department of
> Justice-appointed administrative
> law judge Mary Ellen Bittner, which found that it
> would be “in the
> public interest” for the DEA to grant a license to
> University of
> Massachusetts professor Lyle Craker to cultivate
> research-grade
> marijuana to be used in Food and Drug Administration
> (FDA)-approved
> studies. Judge Bittner’s ruling is non-binding and
> DEA has no deadline
> to decide whether to accept or reject it.
>
> "For the DEA, delay is victory. For patients, delay
> may be the
> difference between life and death," said Allen
> Hopper, Litigation
> Director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s
> Drug Law Reform
> Project, which has represented Craker since 2005.
> "It is encouraging to
> see growing political will to overcome DEA's
> inappropriate elevation of
> drug war politics over science and the public good."
>
> -snip-
>
> Today’s U.S. House of Representatives’ letter can be
> found online at:
> http://www.aclu.org/drugpolicy/medmarijuana/31861leg20070918.html



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