Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006
Subject: #328 The Spin Doctors Spit On Science
THE SPIN DOCTORS SPIT ON SCIENCE
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DrugSense FOCUS Alert #328 – Tue, 25 April 2006
Last Thursday the Food and Drug Administration distributed a press
release “Inter-Agency Advisory Regarding Claims That Smoked Marijuana
Is a Medicine” which you may read at http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01362.html
The reaction in the press has been interesting, and worthy of your
letters to the editors. Below we have listed links to a collection of
the press responses as of today, Tuesday morning.
If you need facts to support your letters we suggest these
webpages:
http://www.mpp.org/medical/ Please note the Common Questions about
Medical Marijuana (answered by the Institute of Medicine)
and
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/medicalm.htm
One of the editorials says “If the FDA won’t listen to the scientists,
Congress should take steps to see that it does.” Please contact your
members of Congress and ask them to take those steps.
Thanks for your effort and support.
It’s not what others do it’s what YOU do
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Published Friday, 21 April 2006
New York Times F.D.A Dismisses Medical Benefit From Marijuana URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n495/a01.html
San Francisco Chronicle FDA’s Missive Against Medical Pot URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n495/a10.html
Island Packet (SC) FDA Rejects Marijuana for Medical Uses URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n495/a09.html
Seattle Post-Intelligencer FDA Rejects Medicinal Use of Marijuana URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n495/a08.html
Salt Lake Tribune FDA Says Marijuana Has No Medicinal Value URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n497/a05.html
Chicago Tribune FDA Declares Marijuana Has No Medical Value URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n497/a04.html
Watertown Daily Times (NY) FDA Says Pot Not Medicine URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n499/a07.html
Arizona Republic Rebuffing Scientists, FDA Says Marijuana Has No
Medical Value URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n500/a03.html
Philadelphia Inquirer FDA: No Benefit in Medical Marijuana URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n500/a04.html
Indianapolis Star FDA Says Marijuana Has No Medicinal Value URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n506/a07.html
Oakland Tribune FDA Says No Studies Support Marijuana for Medicinal
Use URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n508/a08.html
Spartanburg Herald Journal (SC) FDA Dismisses Medical Benefit From
Marijuana URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n508/a07.html
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Marijuana Useless As Medicine, FDA Says
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a01.html
Gainesville Sun (FL) F.D.A. Dismisses Medical Benefit From Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a03.html
Detroit News FDA: No Sound ‘Proof’ For Medical Marijuana URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a07.html
The Register-Guard (OR) FDA Joins Opponents of Medicinal Pot URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n514.a07.html
Published Saturday, 22 April 2006
New York Times F.D.A.’s Report Illuminates Wide Divide on Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n500/a02.html
New York Times
Editorial: The Politics of Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n500/a01.html
Seattle Times Marijuana Has No Medical Use, FDA Says URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n500/a05.html
Gadsden Times (AL) FDA’s Report Illuminates Wide Divide on Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n507/a02.html
Gainesville Sun (FL) F.D.A.’s Report Illuminates Wide Divide on
Marijuana URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a02.html
Published Sunday, 23 April 2006
Chicago Tribune
Editorial: Dissembling On Medical Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n506/a03.html
The Oregonian
Column: In The Bush Administration, The Spin Doctors Spit on Science
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a05.html
Published Monday, 24 April 2006
International Herald-Tribune
Editorial: The Politics of Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a06.html
Clayton News Daily (Jonesboro, GA)
Column: FDA Marijuana Stance Good for Anti-Drug Movement
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a08.html
Los Angeles Daily News
Editorial: See No Evil
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n513.a07.html
News Journal (DE)
Editorial: FDA’s Credibility Goes Up in Smoke by Mixing Pot and Politics
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n513/a08.html
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Editorial: FDA Loses Credibility With Jab At Medical Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n514.a03.html
The Republican (Springfield, MA)
Editorial: Marijuana Research? Don’t Hold Your Breath
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n515/a06.html
The Oracle (U of South FL) OPED: Medical Marijuana Is Nothing to Huff
and Puff About URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n516.a08.html
Published Tuesday, 25 April 2006
New York Times
Column: Potheads and Sudafed
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n516.a04.html
Rocky Mountain News (Denver)
Column: Follow the Drug War Money
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n516.a05.html
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Column: Twisting Science to Serve Political Ideology
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n516.a06.html
Minnesota Daily (U of MN, Minneapolis)
Editorial: FDA Says No to Medicinal Weed
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n516.a07.html
Tracy Press (CA)
Editorial: Blowing Smoke at the White House
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n516.a09.html
The Journal Times (Racine, WI)
Editorial: FDA Ignores Science In Marijuana Holding
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n517.a01.html
Additional news clippings on this issue may be found at this link as
they are MAP archived:
http://www.mapinc.org/topics/Food+and+Drug+Administration
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Center
http://www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides
Or contact MAP Media Activism Facilitator Steve Heath for personal
tips on how to write LTEs that get printed.
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Prepared by: Richard Lake, http://www.drugnews.org