© Cancer Monthly 2006 -- The FDA is getting the reputation of letting drug company representatives make decisions for the country (see "Financial conflict of interest disclosure and voting patterns at Food and Drug Administration Drug Advisory Committee meetings"), approving dangerous drugs (see Frontline interview with Sidney Wolfe, MD), and not performing follow-up on approved drugs (see "FDA says firms still lagging on follow-up drug studies"). Now, add to this list the fact that the FDA throws science out the window and makes decisions that have no basis in reality. This bureaucracy recently stated that "smoked marijuana has no currently accepted or proven medical use in the United States..." This statement was made apparently without any research and demonstrates that the needs of cancer patients play little if any role in the decisions of this disgraceful organization.

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