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    Joe Wilson
    Salem, OR
About this Petition Petition Letter

There is a lack of transparency with the FDA & DEA when it comes to issues like marijuana.. The government has a patent on cannabinoids as an antioxidant & and neuroprotectants, which can be found here http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507.html .  Whall they claim that marijuana has no health benefits, why would they have a patent making claims there is health benefits?  I also found that Professor ElSohly of Mississippi has a Federal license to exclusively produce marijuana for the pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt, a subsidiary of Tyco International, when the patent for Marinol is up. Which is due to go off-patent in 2011. Making the Professor a very rich man off tax payers money. I am calling for a transparency within the DEA & FDA under the Data Quality Act set forth by President Obama. Which would give the people all the research that they have conducted on marijuana pertaining to his health benefits or lack thereof. We are told that there is no health benefits from marijuana whall they themselves put out medication, creating patents and filling their wallets at tax payers expense behind the scenes.. We deserve to know the truth, when it comes to all drugs, even the ones in our medicine cabinets... thank you...

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Transparency in the FDA/DEA

Dear Representative

Not only is the synthetic drug marinol a prime example that government knows that marijuana has benefits to ones health. it's patent is up in 2011. The FDA have given professor ElSohly of Mississippi a federal license to exclusively produce marijuana for the pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt, a subsidiary of Tyco International. His arrangement appears to be for the purpose of bringing to market a generic form of Marinol. All of this is going on while the general public is told that Marijuana has no health benefits. It would be nice if these agencies such as the FDA & DEA had the transparency that they are suppose to have under the Data Quality Act set forth by President Obama. I believe that we the people should know all the scientific research information and the methods they went about to get that information that they claim to have done research on, so we can come to a conclusion that they are doing their job right and fully for the benefit of the general public and are not lining their own wallets with billions of dollars of the tax payers hard earned money. Not only are they lining their own wallets with the tax payers money through Big Pharm, but hundreds of thousands of people are going to jail every year and losing their jobs, children and education loans. They're having more trouble getting a job etc at tax payers expense. It really does add up to too much money, so when I hear Obama say it wont benefit the economy to uplift the ban on marijuana, I have to disagree. Thousands die every year and hundreds end up losing everything in their life and possibly spending years in jail over something they already know is okay for the general public. I call for transparency in the FDA & DEA under the data quality act & the removal of the prohibition of marijuana, if such data can not be provided. One can not have it both ways and produce drugs from marijuana and tell the public there is no health benefits.

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