Former FDA chief Scott Gottlieb is calling for the federal government to regulate marijuana so it can assess the medical value of a plant whose use has skyrocketed as states legalize or decriminalize it
It's time for the federal government to regulate marijuana sensibly so it can assess the medical value of a plant whose use has skyrocketed as states legalize or decriminalize it, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a speech obtained by POLITICO.
that has killed seven so far. Meanwhile, fantastic but untested medical claims are being made for the plant and its components."If we believe that cannabis has medicinal potential, we should enable suitable research rather than bypass these norms through wholesale legalization," he said in remarks during a Pellegrino Award luncheon at Samford University's School of Pharmacy.
“Cannabis has been around a long time. There’s been plenty of time to develop rigorous science to affirm its purported medicinal benefits,” Gottlieb told researchers at the conference. Still, the body of evidence is “thin” — and the existing research would never pass muster with the FDA, he said.
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