What was the recent FDA decision and what does it mean?
The recent FDA decision can be found at the following link: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01362.html. The FDA is claiming that there is no evidence for the medical use of cannabis under any circumstances. The FDA issued this report in response to many inquiries from Capital Hill. This has been described as political move since many supporters have been petitioning the FDA to help with the current stance of the Administration and the DEA. Although the FDA has issued this report, it is thought that it will be unlikely that the agency will issue any enforcement of this stance since this is the job of the DEA. The DEA has already made it known that it will and can arrest anyone in possession of cannabis for any reason. In this regard this report doesn’t appear to be drastically new. The only result of this is that we now know that the FDA will not enter the argument of cannabis as a medicine on the side of its supporters. The FDA’s failure to support the use of medical marijua
