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The DEA and the National Institute for Drug Abuse block serious research on medical uses of marijuana, creating a ridiculous circle of denials.<\/h2>\n

A pro-marijuana group lost its legal battle this week when a federal appellate court ruled that marijuana would remain a Schedule I drug, defined as having no accepted medical value and a high potential for abuse.\u00a0(Alan Berner \/ Seattle Times \/ MCT\u00a0\/\u00a0January\u00a024, 2013)<\/h2>\n

For a muscular agency that combats vicious drug criminals, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration acts like a terrified and obstinate toddler when it comes to basic science. For years, the DEA and the National Institute forDrug Abuse<\/a>\u00a0have made it all but impossible to develop a robust body of research on the medical uses of marijuana.<\/p>\n

A pro-marijuana group\u00a0lost its legal battle<\/a>\u00a0this week when a federal appellate court ruled that marijuana would remain a Schedule I drug, defined as having no accepted medical value and a high potential for abuse. The court deferred to the judgment of federal authorities, quoting the DEA’s statement that “the effectiveness of a drug must be established in well-controlled, well-designed, well-conducted and well-documented scientific studies…. To date, such studies have not been performed. Read the full story>>\u00a0Latimes<\/a><\/p>\n

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The DEA and the National Institute for Drug Abuse block serious research on medical uses of marijuana, creating a ridiculous circle of denials. A pro-marijuana group lost its legal battle this week when a federal appellate court ruled that marijuana would remain a Schedule I drug, defined as having no accepted medical value and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalize","category-marijuana","category-medijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alaskahemp.com\/420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}