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members of the California Legislature wanted the Panel to create
a wholely intrastate program of medical access to marijuana_ .a
,_,._ program devoid of complicating federal involvements. One central_
element in this approach involved avoiding the federal marijuana
supply system run by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Under
this approach, California would utilize .internal sources of
marijuana. The Panel strongly opposed _e use of confiscated
stocks of marijuana because of potency and other complications°
i_._ According to the Panel Uthe most reliable source of research
grade or medical grade marijuana has been the National Institute
on Drug Abuse .... m2_2_/
In discussing the need for such a program, the Panel
group stated:
[A] state-wide pilot project was prompted by
the absence of a truly effective drug to
control the nausea and vomiting of cancer
chemotherapy, and the promise of improved
results offered by Cannabis .... State
sponsored trails were deemed necessary
because marijuana is a Schedule I controlled
261/ (...continued)
marijuana research projects invoiving
glaucomas asthma and cancer patients. For
example, prior to the introductions of SB 184
the Panel had approved five separate research
projects employing marijuana and/or THC
involving as many as 500 cancer patients
suffering from severe nausea or vomiting from
the cancer treatments.
ACT Official State Reports_ Vol. I, Exhibit I, Tenth Annual
Report for 1979 to the Governor & Legislaturer California
Research Advisory Panel (nCRAPH)r San Francisco, 1980, at 4.
Despite this impressive record, the California legislature, by
its enactment of S.B. 184_ determined the Panel's previous
marijuana research efforts, however laudatory, were inadequate to
the immediate needs of seriously ill Californians.
_62/ /_. at 5.
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