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one hundred Phase _, Phase I_ and large-scale Phase Xll IND
programs authorizing marijuana_s use by human beings. 3_9/
Ignoring these facts, the actions of federal agencies
and the testimony of many of its own witnesses_ DEA illogically
claims marijuana is too nvariable_ to be medically useful. As
DEA states:
Modern drug research is based on the use of
well-defined preparations of p_e compounds
which_ when a_ministe_ to patients allow
reproducible results, a_I
DEA is confusing the utopian scientific quest for the
"Holy Grail" -- the perfect drug that has no side effects and is
better than all other drugs _/ -- with the realities of medicine
as it is practiced "in treatmento u in practice, medicinef modern
or ancient, seeks to resolve immediate physical problems.
Medicine is not a quest for the mHoly Grail_ _ it is an effort to
find an appropriate therapy for a particular patient at a
particular time. While scientists like Green pursue the nHoly
....... Grail, _ physicians like Drs_ Silverberg_ North and Petro must
meet the immediate medical needs of patients like Keith Nutt_
Robert Randall and Valarie Cover with dz_gs that are admittedly
imperfect, even dangerous°
___/ Affidavit of Edward Tocus, Ph.D., _ 5-7. According to
Tocus, FDA has approved over ll0 Phase I_III iND's permitting
marijuana's use by humans° Thirty of these INDs are active. _
..... ares.
_uq/ DEA Brief _ 25 at 16.
if/ Cross-examination of Eeith Green, Ph.D., Tr. 9-151 & 9-152_
Green conceeds this quest is not always realized. _ also ACT
Brief at 179.
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