"Non-profit organization MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, announced Thursday it will receive a grant of over $2.1 million from the State of Colorado to study the whole cannabis plant"

Save the $2.1 million. I can tell you the results right now:

"Smoked cannabis provides excellent relief for those with PTSD. It also cures cancer and warts."

MAPS and it's founder, Rick Doblin‎, is a pro-marijuana group. They're also studying the use of Ecstasy, LSD, magic mushrooms, and other psychedelics for PTSD, depression and anxiety. They're a 30-year-old non-profit that sucks up millions in contributions, conducts hundreds of trials and studies, and has come up with zero results.

BUT, if you're looking for someone to say what you want them to say (for a price, of course), they're the ones.

I suspect the Big Pharm lawyers are already sharpening their knives.

They're a 30-year-old non-profit that sucks up millions in contributions, conducts hundreds of trials and studies, and has come up with zero results.

That sounds like the American Cancer Society and associates.

They're also studying the use of Ecstasy, LSD, magic mushrooms, and other psychedelics for PTSD, depression and anxiety.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

If it were up to you and your repulsive ilk, doctors would still be using leeches and drilling holes in patient's heads.

MAPS and it's founder, Rick Doblin‎, is a pro-marijuana group.

The DEA doesn't seem to have a problem with that.

They're a 30-year-old non-profit that sucks up millions in contributions, conducts hundreds of trials and studies, and has come up with zero results.

That sounds like the American Cancer Society and associates.

ZING!

How true.

"The DEA doesn't seem to have a problem with that."

The "E" in DEA stands for enforcement. They have nothing to do with research. The research received approval from the federal Health and Human Services Department.

According to MAPS, smoked cannabis with varying levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) will be administered in the placebo-controlled trial to evaluate efficacy and safety for 76 veterans with treatment-resistant PTSD.

Right. One joint is 22% THC Kosher Kush and the other is the placebo -- 0% THC ditchweed hemp.

Now, we're not allowed to tell you which is which, but you tell us which one makes you feel better.

Now, we're not allowed to tell you which is which, but you tell us which one makes you feel better.

yukon prefered 'DIC' for some reason. As an opinion, he was very weird person.

The "E" in DEA stands for enforcement. They have nothing to do with research. The research received approval from the federal Health and Human Services Department.

"while it [MAPS] received the OK from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2011 and from the U.S. Public Health Service in 2014, it still had to wait for the DEA’s approval in order to proceed." - fortune.com/2016/04/22/dea-medical-marijuana/

it still had to wait for the DEA’s approval

Approval to allow federally grown marijuana to be used for the study. You left that out.

Oh, and you also apparently missed (deliberately or otherwise) the following from the article you linked. "So far, DEA has not rejected any research studies involving marijuana products that met FDA standards, the agency’s spokesperson added."

Far from being the first-ever DEA approval of marijuana research, it turns that the DEA has NEVER rejected an FDA compliant pot study.

How embarrassing for ya.

Approval to allow federally grown marijuana to be used for the study. You left that out.

You left out the relevance of this detail.

Oh, and you also apparently missed (deliberately or otherwise) the following

I included the part relevant to misterwhite's implication that DEA approval wasn't required and omitted what wasn't.

from the article you linked. "So far, DEA has not rejected any research studies involving marijuana products that met FDA standards, the agency’s spokesperson added."

Far from being the first-ever DEA approval of marijuana research, it turns that the DEA has NEVER rejected an FDA compliant pot study.

How embarrassing for ya.

It would have been, had I ever claimed or implied otherwise, which I haven't. How embarrassing for ya.

You left out the relevance of this detail.

Are you really so dim? The Drug Enforcement Administration oversees the federal government's production of marijuana used for research.

clouds of tangential bullshit

Facts. You know, those things you're always fleeing from while gibbering ad hominem evasions.

"I included the part relevant to misterwhite's implication that DEA approval wasn't required and omitted what wasn't."

DEA approval was not required to conduct the study.

Approval to allow federally grown marijuana to be used for the study. You left that out.

For me to "leave it out" it must have been in the article - go ahead and quote the text that states the DEA approved the use of federally grown marijuana.

DEA approval was not required to conduct the study.

The Fortune link says the opposite - feel free to provide evidence for your claim as I've provided evidence against it.

Facts.

Irrelevant facts.

Irrelevant facts.

Relevant facts

The Fortune link says

I know I'm casting pearls before rtards, but...

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regulates the cultivation of marijuana for research purposes and does background checks on FDA research applicants.

Here's what MAPS stated, "Our efforts to initiate medical marijuana research have been hindered by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) since our founding in 1986. NIDA's monopoly on the supply of marijuana for research and the DEA's refusal to allow researchers to grow their own has restricted medical marijuana research for decades."

"The Fortune link says the opposite"

The same Fortune link states that the DEA is considering rescheduling marijuana. They don't have the authority to do that.

The DEA might approve the marijuana used in the study, but they don't approve the study.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regulates the cultivation of marijuana for research purposes and does background checks on FDA research applicants.

So their approval was required to conduct the study, contrary to misterwhite's claim.

Here's what MAPS stated,

Not in the posted article nor my link so I didn't "leave it out" contrary to your lie.

"Our efforts to initiate medical marijuana research have been hindered by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) since our founding in 1986. NIDA's monopoly on the supply of marijuana for research and the DEA's refusal to allow researchers to grow their own has restricted medical marijuana research for decades."

The DEA might approve the marijuana used in the study, but they don't approve the study.

So it's your position that MAPS could have conducted the study without the marijuana?

So it's your position that they could have conducted the study without the marijuana?

Your collapse was predictable.

Not in the posted article nor my link

So now you know better.

Roscoe, --- it is cute how you try to obscure your little buddy (misterwhite) misstatements in clouds of tangential bullshit. Hope he gives you a beer ... or something. --- CS

Our two paranoid buttbuddies have been trying to be cute together for years now, on these sites since freerepublic.

Sadly, paranoid stigmatization of cannabis has dictated drug policy and law for decades through the utterly failed war on drugs.

So now you know better.

Now all readers of this thread know better than to believe your lie, "You left that out."

"So it's your position that MAPS could have conducted the study without the marijuana?"

I stated my position way back in post #1. Perhaps you missed it?

MAPS has already completed the study. They are a pro-legalization group and will conclude that smoked marijuana is God's miracle drug for PTSD.

I cannot imagine them saying otherwise.

"You left that out."

You did leave that out. You've been reduced to claiming you did so solely out of ignorance. That's your best defense.

MAPS has already completed the study. They are a pro-legalization group and will conclude that smoked marijuana is God's miracle drug for PTSD.

What a pathetically feeble dodge - a predetermined conclusion as you allege is NOT the same as a completed study.

You did leave that out. You've been reduced to claiming you did so solely out of ignorance.

You've been reduced to pretending that to not declare a tangential and previously unstated fact is to "leave it out."

a predetermined conclusion as you allege is NOT the same as a completed study.

My money is on the two being the same.

The same Fortune link states that the DEA is considering rescheduling marijuana. They don't have the authority to do that.

Like he cares.

My money is on the two [a predetermined conclusion and a completed study] being the same.

Your $3 bills? A study is an activity - the two by definition can't be the same. So whatever MAPS' conclusion and whenever they determine it, they can't complete a study of marijuana's effect on PTSD without marijuana - so approval for the use of marijuana WAS required to conduct the study, and that approval had to come from the DEA.

The rest is Kabuki theater.

The DEA holds the keys to the U.S. stage.