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#328 The Spin Doctors Spit On Science
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006
Subject: #328 The Spin Doctors Spit On ScienceTHE 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.htmlThe 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.htmlSan Francisco Chronicle FDA’s Missive Against Medical Pot URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n495/a10.htmlIsland Packet (SC) FDA Rejects Marijuana for Medical Uses URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n495/a09.htmlSeattle Post-Intelligencer FDA Rejects Medicinal Use of Marijuana URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n495/a08.htmlSalt Lake Tribune FDA Says Marijuana Has No Medicinal Value URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n497/a05.htmlChicago Tribune FDA Declares Marijuana Has No Medical Value URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n497/a04.htmlWatertown Daily Times (NY) FDA Says Pot Not Medicine URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n499/a07.htmlArizona Republic Rebuffing Scientists, FDA Says Marijuana Has No
Medical Value URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n500/a03.htmlPhiladelphia Inquirer FDA: No Benefit in Medical Marijuana URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n500/a04.htmlIndianapolis Star FDA Says Marijuana Has No Medicinal Value URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n506/a07.htmlOakland Tribune FDA Says No Studies Support Marijuana for Medicinal
Use URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n508/a08.htmlSpartanburg Herald Journal (SC) FDA Dismisses Medical Benefit From
Marijuana URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n508/a07.htmlAtlanta Journal-Constitution Marijuana Useless As Medicine, FDA Says
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a01.htmlGainesville Sun (FL) F.D.A. Dismisses Medical Benefit From Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a03.htmlDetroit News FDA: No Sound ‘Proof’ For Medical Marijuana URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a07.htmlThe Register-Guard (OR) FDA Joins Opponents of Medicinal Pot URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n514.a07.htmlPublished 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.htmlNew York Times
Editorial: The Politics of Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n500/a01.htmlSeattle Times Marijuana Has No Medical Use, FDA Says URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n500/a05.htmlGadsden Times (AL) FDA’s Report Illuminates Wide Divide on Marijuana
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n507/a02.htmlGainesville Sun (FL) F.D.A.’s Report Illuminates Wide Divide on
Marijuana URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a02.htmlPublished Sunday, 23 April 2006
Chicago Tribune
Editorial: Dissembling On Medical Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n506/a03.htmlThe Oregonian
Column: In The Bush Administration, The Spin Doctors Spit on Science
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a05.htmlPublished Monday, 24 April 2006
International Herald-Tribune
Editorial: The Politics of Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a06.htmlClayton News Daily (Jonesboro, GA)
Column: FDA Marijuana Stance Good for Anti-Drug Movement
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n509/a08.htmlLos Angeles Daily News
Editorial: See No Evil
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n513.a07.htmlNews Journal (DE)
Editorial: FDA’s Credibility Goes Up in Smoke by Mixing Pot and Politics
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n513/a08.htmlHonolulu Star-Bulletin
Editorial: FDA Loses Credibility With Jab At Medical Pot
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n514.a03.htmlThe Republican (Springfield, MA)
Editorial: Marijuana Research? Don’t Hold Your Breath
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n515/a06.htmlThe Oracle (U of South FL) OPED: Medical Marijuana Is Nothing to Huff
and Puff About URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n516.a08.htmlPublished Tuesday, 25 April 2006
New York Times
Column: Potheads and Sudafed
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n516.a04.htmlRocky Mountain News (Denver)
Column: Follow the Drug War Money
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n516.a05.htmlSt. Paul Pioneer Press
Column: Twisting Science to Serve Political Ideology
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n516.a06.htmlMinnesota Daily (U of MN, Minneapolis)
Editorial: FDA Says No to Medicinal Weed
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n516.a07.htmlTracy Press (CA)
Editorial: Blowing Smoke at the White House
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n516.a09.htmlThe Journal Times (Racine, WI)
Editorial: FDA Ignores Science In Marijuana Holding
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n517.a01.htmlAdditional 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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Prepared by: Richard Lake, http://www.drugnews.org