The federal government has spent millions of dollars over the last 30 years in a vain attempt to demonstrate marijuana is a health hazard.  No researcher, no matter how flawed the methodology of his proposed experiment or inconclusive his findings, has had trouble getting grant money from the feds to find the dangers of marijuana.

Independent science has steadfastly refused to accept this politically motivated nonsense.  Yet it is widely quoted by anti-marijuana use advocates.

The federal government has also obstructed research into marijuana's medical properties.  The reason the Federal Drug Administration hasn't completed research on this drug is political.  In the meantime, patients who could be helped have gone without.  This, to me, seems to be the crime.

Tracy Ryan, Chairperson-Libertarian Party of Hawaii
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