Pot Addled Motherfuckers
Emergency contraception, global warming, and now pot—do the assholes running the federal government ver listen to their own scientists? From today’s New York Times:
F.D.A. Dismisses Medical Benefit From MarijuanaThe Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that “no sound scientific studies” supported the medical use of marijuana, contradicting a 1999 review by a panel of highly regarded scientists….
The Food and Drug Administration statement directly contradicts a 1999 review by the Institute of Medicine, a part of the National Academy of Sciences, the nation’s most prestigious scientific advisory agency. That review found marijuana to be “moderately well suited for particular conditions, such as chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting and AIDS wasting.”
Dr. John Benson, co-chairman of the Institute of Medicine committee that examined the research into marijuana’s effects, said in an interview that the statement on Thursday and the combined review by other agencies were wrong. The federal government “loves to ignore our report,” said Dr. Benson, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. “They would rather it never happened.”
Some scientists and legislators said the agency’s statement about marijuana demonstrated that politics had trumped science.
“Unfortunately, this is yet another example of the F.D.A. making pronouncements that seem to be driven more by ideology than by science,” said Dr. Jerry Avorn, a medical professor at Harvard Medical School.
Are the Bushies capable of telling the truth about, you know, anything? Anything at all?
Short answer: Nope.