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When the Means Clash with the Ends!
Posted by FoM on April 01, 1999 at 11:33:06 PT
Source: LA Times
While I was off examining my navel in Indiana, the results of two important studies that arrived at uncomfortable conclusions were made public.   The first, conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, said flatly that marijuana eases pain and quells nausea in cancer and AIDS patients and that there is no clear evidence that smoking it leads to consumption of heroin, cocaine or other narcotics. 
The "drug war" commandos are going to have a tough time ignoring this study since it was commissioned by Barry McCaffrey, head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and its findings are backed by an impressive panel of 35 experts who spent 18 months taking public testimony and evaluating scientific studies on marijuana.   But authorities already are running away from their own study because its conclusions don't square with conventional thinking or administration policy. This is a very good editorial, I believe!
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