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70 YEARS AGO, AMA TOLD CONGRESS MEDICINAL MARIJUANA WAS OKAY
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 1937 - I have been instructed by the board
of trustees of the American Medical Association to protest on behalf of
the association against the enactment in its present form of so much of
H.R. 6906 as relates to the medicinal use of cannabis and its
preparations and derivatives. . . There is no evidence. . . that the
medicinal use of these drugs has caused or is causing cannabis
addiction. As remedial agents, they are used to an inconsiderable
extent, and the obvious purpose and effect of this bill is to impose so
many restrictions on their use as to prevent such use altogether. Since
the medicinal use of cannabis has not caused and is not causing
addiction, the prevention of the use of the drug for medicinal purposes
can accomplish no good end whatsoever. How far it may serve to deprive
the public of the benefits of a drug that on further research may prove
to be of substantial value, it is impossible to foresee.
The American Medical Association has no objection to any reasonable
regulation of the medicinal use of cannabis and its preparations and
derivatives. It does protest, however, against being called upon to pay
a special tax, to use special order forms in order to procure the drug,
to keep special records concerning its professional use and to make
special returns to the Treasury Department officials, as a condition
precedent to the use of cannabis in the practice of medicine. in the
several States, all separate and apart from the taxes, order forms,
records, and reports required under the Harrison Narcotics Act with
reference to opium and coca leaves and their preparations and
derivatives.
http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/AMA_opposes_1937.html
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70 YEARS AGO, AMA TOLD CONGRESS MEDICINAL MARIJUANA WAS OKAY
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 1937 - I have been instructed by the board
of trustees of the American Medical Association to protest on behalf of
the association against the enactment in its present form of so much of
H.R. 6906 as relates to the medicinal use of cannabis and its
preparations and derivatives. . . There is no evidence. . . that the
medicinal use of these drugs has caused or is causing cannabis
addiction. As remedial agents, they are used to an inconsiderable
extent, and the obvious purpose and effect of this bill is to impose so
many restrictions on their use as to prevent such use altogether. Since
the medicinal use of cannabis has not caused and is not causing
addiction, the prevention of the use of the drug for medicinal purposes
can accomplish no good end whatsoever. How far it may serve to deprive
the public of the benefits of a drug that on further research may prove
to be of substantial value, it is impossible to foresee.
The American Medical Association has no objection to any reasonable
regulation of the medicinal use of cannabis and its preparations and
derivatives. It does protest, however, against being called upon to pay
a special tax, to use special order forms in order to procure the drug,
to keep special records concerning its professional use and to make
special returns to the Treasury Department officials, as a condition
precedent to the use of cannabis in the practice of medicine. in the
several States, all separate and apart from the taxes, order forms,
records, and reports required under the Harrison Narcotics Act with
reference to opium and coca leaves and their preparations and
derivatives.
http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/AMA_opposes_1937.html
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