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................. _.- Additional _esear_h _.
Despite the cohesive and consistent reports by patients
that marijuana works in the treatment of spasticity_all of the
government's affiants addressing this issue contend that
insufficient research has been conducted to determine whether or
not marijuana has medical utility° _12J _nere is no question that
additional research is always important with respect to drug
..... utility_ Dro Zinberg, for example, agreed that he would like to
see additional research -- one small study -- to absolutely
confirm marijuanaes utility in the treatment of spasticityo 713/
However_ it appears that as long as marijuana remains an illegal
Schedule I drug, this research will not be conducted° Dr. Steven
Reingo!d, Assistant Vice President for Research and the Director
of Grants Management for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society_
testified proudly that the Multiple Sclerosis Society had spent
$105 million on research regarding the treatment of multiple
sclerosis. _14/ Despite this enormous e_enditure, not a penny of
research money has been spent to confirm whether or not the
reports of patients and doctors regarding marijuana_s medical
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utility are correct. Most shocking of all, the United States
Government, while funding over $50 million of studies in an
effort to prove that marijuana is unsafep has likewise failed to
712/ Seer _a,, Affidavit of Dr° Donald Silberbergs at 7 (need
for additional double-blind studies to confirm medical utility);
Affidavit of Dr. Kenneth Po Johnson_ at '7 (same).
__13/ Cross-examination of Dr. Norman Zinberg, Tr. i1-193-& ii-194_
714/ Affidavit of Dr. Steven Reingold, at 2.
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