What is the 'Compassionate Investigational New Drug Program'?

What is the 'Compassionate Investigational New Drug Program'?

Irvin Rosenfeld (Stock Broker) gives expert video advice on: Why do you get marijuana from the federal government?; How do you get your marijuana from the government?; What is 'medical marijuana'? and more...

The Federal Compassionate IND Program, which I'm under, was established in 1978, and was shut down in 1992 by George Bush Sr. And what it is, is the doctors... The government wasn't agreeing that marijuana, or cannabis, was a medical benefit. What they were saying is that doctors had convinced the government that there was no medicine for this patient, and that a qualified physician believed that cannabis would work, and so therefore out of the compassion of the federal government, they granted a Compassionate Care protocol. And in '92, we'd gotten up to thirteen patients. Another twenty-eight patients had been approved for the program. And we found that it worked for AIDS patients. We sent a protocol, basically a fill-in-the-blanks protocol, to AIDS organizations, and they bombarded the Bush administration with thousands of protocols. George Bush Sr., running for reelection against Clinton, didn't want to look soft on drugs, so he somehow arbitrarily shut the program down, grandfathering the thirteen of us in.