Pubdate: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 Source: Wall Street Journal (US) Page: A15 Copyright: 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Contact: http://www.wsj.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/487 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n367/a08.html Author: Allan Erickson QUESTIONS FROM OTHER SIDE OF MEDICAL-MARIJUANA ISSUE So, former drug czar Lee Dogoloff says cannabis has no medical value: "I have always maintained that drug policy in this country should follow science" (Letters, March 23). He believes science shows no pharmacological efficacy for cannabis. Why then does Sativex, a whole cannabis extract, exist as the only approved prescription medicine for treating peripheral neuropathy of multiple sclerosis patients in Canada? Why does the U.S. supply tins of 300 prerolled cannabis cigarettes -- grown at the University of Mississippi -- once a month, as medicine, to the five remaining patients enrolled in the federal Compassionate Investigative New Drug program? Marijuana provided, evidently, during Mr. Dogoloff's tenure? Allan Erickson Drug Policy Forum of Oregon Eugene, Ore. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake