Do you think the US government will bring back the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program?
I wish the Federal Government would bring back the Compassionate Program. What I've suggested, and it's fallen on deaf ears, is that if you're my enemy, and you're against me, and you're right that marijuana / cannabis is harmful to you, and it's detrimental, well then I'm willing to take a chance and prove it. Why don't we do this? Why don't we take fifty of our top research centres in the country - pick one from each state - let them pick fifty patients-- Crohns patients, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, whatever, ok? All the different diseases, take fifty patients, and let's use it for two years. Now, if the person that is against me is right, then we are only going to harm 2500 patients, and we are going to know how harmful it is. Because we are going to have 2500 patients that are going to be worse off, because they have used cannabis, than their peers with the same diseases. However, if I'm right and these people A) have not been harmed; and B) are better than their peers that aren't using it, then I would hope that a knowledgeable and educated person would finally say wait a minute, maybe you are right maybe we need to readdress the situation. But that hasn't happened. That's a logical step. That's something logically that could be done. But the government doesn't want to know logic. They don't want to know it works. They are scared because of the lobby organizations and the money behind all this that keeps it illegal.
