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Anti-Drug Group Applauds FDA Announcement Denying The Medicalization Of Smoked Marijuana

DAMMADD (DADS AND MAD MOMS AGAINST DRUG DEALERS) and other parent groups from all over the country have been petitioning the FDA to make a ruling on the medicalization of marijuana. After years of letter writing, the FDA agreed with arguments against legalization and with the 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science. In the report, there were six recommendations made, with recommendation number 5:

"If there is any future for marijuana as a medicine, it lies in its isolated components, the cannabinoids and their synthetic derivatives. Isolated cannabinoids will provide more reliable effects than crude plant mixtures. Therefore, the purpose of clinical trials of smoked marijuana would not be to develop marijuana as a licensed drug, but such trials could be a first step towards the development of rapid-onset, nonsmoked cannabinoid delivery systems."

Pro drug organizations such as the Drug Policy Alliance and the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) have worked to spin the truth to deceive the American public and ignore the new and upcoming cannabis medicine Sativex that has received phase III trial approvals from the FDA. In a statement issued April 21 on http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0421-06.htm, MPP Director of Government Relations Aaron Houston alleges the position adopted by the FDA is political, that it reflects "the decline of the FDA as an independent scientific agency," rather than a non-partisian decision-making authority.

DAMMADD Founder Steven Steiner said, "The bottom line is these organizations are using the medicalization issue as a stepping stone for full legalization of marijuana."

Steiner is calling on all Americans to join the fight against all organizations which, by virtue of this stance, work to erode and destroy family values and use sick people to further their agendas.

Further information is available in videos at Americans For Drug Free Youth Web site, www.afdfy.org, at the Otto Moulton memorial library.

For more information visit www.dammadd.org or at www.afdfy.org, call toll free 866-DAMMADD, or write to P.O. Box 95, Tioga Center, New York 13845.
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