As proposals take shape for a medical marijuana program in Maryland, the state is considering an approach that would put academic centers such as the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland at the helm as a way of closely monitoring the drug — and studying whether it is effective or safe for wide use.
A state panel met Wednesday for the first time since being formed by the General Assembly with a relatively narrow focus: to study ways to regulate medical marijuana through a licensing agreement with a university. That conservative approach addresses objections from the state health secretary, who has cited concerns about the drug's effectiveness and the uncertainty of federal law.
What??? After hundreds of studies and several states with an already active and flourishing medical marijuana system in place, we need to appoint someone new to study it some more? What is THEIR salary going to be and how many people are going to have a new job and position (at taxpayer expense, of course) to regurgitate the same information? Man! The shuck and jive NEVER stops with politicians.
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