Allen Hopper of the American Civil Liberties Union illustrates the type of extensive research that must be made so that marijuana can be approved by the FDA as a medicinal drug.
Hopper explains that the monopoly that National Institute of Drug Abuse has over marijuana is preventing vital research to be made in order to manufacture the drug into a prescription drug. (1:06)
August 22, 2005
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