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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Elizabeth Warren Urges Feds To Support Research On Medical Marijuana's Benefits 🌿Elizabeth Warren Urges Feds To Support Research On Medical Marijuana's Benefits
Millions of Americans can now get medical weed under state law, but we still haven't done much research into the drug's positive effects.
The federal government has a "responsibility" to facilitate sensible research into marijuana's medical benefits, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and seven other senators urged in a letter issued last week to multiple federal drug and health officials.
"While the federal government has emphasized research on the potential harms associated with the use of marijuana, there is still very limited research on the potential health benefits of marijuana -- despite the fact that millions of Americans are now eligible by state law to use the drug for medical purposes," the letter reads.
The senators praised the White House's recent lift of what was a mandatory bureaucratic review process, long criticized by researchers and lawmakers alike, that had stifled scientific research into the plant. But, they also encouraged the federal drug and health...
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