Professor: Medical Marijuana Grown By the Fed. Government Isn’t Very Good

UMASS Professor: Medical Marijuana Grown By the Federal Government Isn’t Very Good
December 13th, 2005

Lyle Craker, a horticulturist who heads the the medicinal plant program at UMASS, is “challenging the government’s 36-year-old monopoly on research marijuana. Craker’s suit claims government-grown marijuana lacks the potency medical researchers need to make important breakthroughs.”

“The government’s marijuana just isn’t strong enough,” said Richard Doblin, a Craker supporter who heads the Massachusetts-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

A hearing before a federal administrative judge at the Drug Enforcement Administration got under way Monday and is expected to last all week.

Craker’s suit also alleges there isn’t enough of the drug freely available for scientists across the country to work with.

The DEA contends that permitting other marijuana growers would lead to greater illegal use of the drug. They have also said that international treaties limit the United States to one marijuana production facility.

A lab at the University of Mississippi is the government’s only marijuana growing facility.

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which, IMO, removes all their credibility on the subject.

Some that produce such wild, pshychodelic hallucinations they can back up their reefer madness war on drugs mentality, and then the ones that they send medical rsearchers, so impotent it's useless in medicinal research.

K&R!