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 materials over many_ many years in many_ many
 patients
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 Pilocarpine has been around 81nee the turn
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 of the century and has been used over all of these
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 years. So you can imagine how many patients have
 . 6 been _eated® So they're grand, fathered, all rlghtF
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 by whatever changes occurred over 1962_
 8 Since that time t=_ere have been criteria
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 applied to the development of any marketable drug,
 I0 and we' re not tal_ng simply _bout Timoptlc o We _ re
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 talking about any marketable drug, including, you
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 know, these ones Z carry around in my poqket_ and
 13 they have to go through accepted criteria for safety_
 14 efficacy, and proven utility in that disease process o
 15 Although we know _= and lwm not sitting
 16 here arguing the point, r would agree with you all
 17 the way down the llne -- the _tudles that have been
 _8 done to date with mar±juana_ by inhalations by
 19 intravenous a_mlnistratlon_ by oral adm__nistratlon,
 ....... 20 all sh˘_ that this materlal_ eŁther marijuana two
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 percent or higher -- and we have to be specific
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 because mainly it's been the Mexlcan variety of
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 marijuana that's been smoked_ not Turkish, not
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 Czeohoslovaklano It's mainly been Mexicans but e
 2_ minimum of two percent Delta-9 THC content -- orally
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