$MJ Congressional Committee Considers Marijuana Am
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By Tom Angell | July 12, 2017
First, Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) offered an amendment that would have expanded research on marijuana’s potential medical benefits.
Due to its current status as a Schedule I drug, scientists who wish to study cannabis must overcome extra procedural hurdles that don’t exist for research on other substances.
“It seems ludicrous to me that any notion of conservative limited government would put the federal government between someone who was ailing in pain and something that could potentially help them,” said Gaetz, who is also cosponsoring a separate standalone bill to move marijuana to Schedule III. (cont'd)
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