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Marijuana grown by the US government will now be made available to scientists
for privately funded medical studies. In the past, the government-grown crops
could only be used for the handful of studies sponsored by the National
Institutes of ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ. Officials made the policy change in response to the
Institute of Medicine’s call for more research in this area
(This Week, 27 March, p 14),
and medical marijuana proponents say they feel cautiously
optimistic. “These guidelines will make things a little easier than they have
been,” says Chuck Thomas of the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington DC.