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 invest a penny in research to determine _rijuana_s medical
 utility in the treatment of _his debilitating condition_
 Most significant of all, for purposes of this pro-
 ceeding_ none of the Government witnesses has introduced a
 scintilla of evidence suggesting that marijuana does not work, or
 that it:is somehow unsafe vis-a-vis the other drugs available to
 treat epamticity. They simply repeat the worn-out refrain that
 additional research is necessary knowing full well that
 marijuana_s current scheduling will never permit this research to
 actually occur.
 The Hpurported_ lack of interest by most physicians in
 .....
 conducting research projects of this types alleged by Dr.
 Reingold, is not hard to understand. As Harvard Professor Norman
 Zinber_ testified, physicians are extremely reluctant to get
 involved with a Schedule I drug--particularly marijuana. 715/ Dr_
 Regeison of the University of Virginia concurred, stating
 emphatically that peer pressure, if nothing else_ would deter
 researchers who were, at the same time, trying to develop their
 careers o 716 /
 Thus_ unless marijuana is rescheduled_ it is quits
 unlikely that additional research in this vital area will be
 conducted® Tragically, despite the fact that the United States
 Government and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society have been
 aware for the past ten years that marijuana has great medical
 715/ Cross=examination of Dr. Norman Zinberg_ Tr. Ii_211.
 716/ Cross-examination of William Regelson_ Tr. 13-32, 13-59_
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