PUBLISHED WED, JAN 6 202111:10 AM Charlotte Morabito@MORABITOCM Every ballot initiative involving the decriminalization or legalization of marijuana passed in the 2020 election. Voters in New Jersey and Arizona chose to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use. Mississippi voted to legalize medical marijuana use, and South Dakota legalized the drug for...
Certainly, the compromise legislation for Utah’s Prop 2 initiative to legalize Medical Marijuana is better than the legislature repealing the initiative in their next session. For consistency’s sake, however, if the compromise was offered because of inherent weaknesses the opponents to Prop 2 expressed fear over, then weaknesses in the...
Misplaced Trust: Why FDA Approval Doesn’t Guarantee Drug Safety By Michelle Llamas When 37-year-old Timothy “Woody” Witczak’s doctor gave him a few Zoloft (sertraline) samples to help him sleep in 2003, neither he nor his wife, Kim, was alarmed. “Woody and I never once questioned the drug. Why would we?...
By Charles Piller, Jia You Originally Published Jul. 5, 2018 at Sciencemag.com Hidden Conflicts? On a sweltering July day in 2010, seven medical researchers and one patient advocate gathered in a plush Marriott hotel in College Park, Maryland, to review a promising drug designed to prevent heart attacks and strokes by limiting blood...
The Opioid Crisis Response Act falls short of curtailing Big Pharma’s stake in opioids. On September 17, 2018, a new opioid bill known as The Opioid Crisis Response Act, geared towards Big Pharma, passed with an unprecedented 99 to 1 in the Senate. The bill seems to be more of...
Cost Savings of Medical Marijuana has more to do with why pharmaceutical companies are fighting legal marijuana than any other reason they advertise. There’s a body of research showing that painkiller abuse and overdose are lower in states with medical marijuana laws. These studies have generally assumed that when medical marijuana is available,...
It’s inconsistent to oppose Medical Marijuana because of insufficient testing and not demand that the FDA and DEA reclassify it to allow more testing. We need a Medical Marijuana friendly Attorney General. We also need to have Medical Marijuana treated the same as Alcohol and Tobacco–legal federally and regulated by...
Even as many states and Washington, DC, allow marijuana, the federal government still strictly prohibits pot. Under the scheduling system, the federal government classifies marijuana as a schedule 1 drug, meaning it’s perceived to have no medical value and a high potential for abuse. The classification puts marijuana in the same category as...
