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Three Cannabis Cigarettes Equals Twenty Tobacco Cigarettes?

• 2005,2006 - Professor Lyle Craker tries to use something other than NIDA stems-n-seeds for research. The ongoing struggle to use real pot and not stems and seeds (see illustrations) for medical marijuana research. ...

• December 2004 - ''Any researcher attempting to study marijuana must obtain it through the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The U.S. research crop, grown at a single facility, is regarded as less potent--and therefore less medicinally interesting--than the marijuana often easily available on the street. Thus, the legal supply is a poor vehicle for studying the approximately 60 cannabinoids that might have medical applications.'' Marijuana Research, Scientific American, Dec. 2004

• February 2003 - Dr. Ethan Russo speaks about NIDA "marijuana" Chris Bennett asks Cannibinoid expert Dr. Ethan Russo about the possibility that NIDA "standardized" cannabis is a spray-on THC product, and the importance of a full range of canabinoids in effective medical marijuana.

• November 2002 - British Lung Foundation Cons Media. Blaming Cannabis for Problems Caused By Prohibition. Tripping Over the Party Line. But The Media Fell For It, As Usual. Analysis by Richard Cowan

Is the US Government Testing Cannabis, or just Stems and Seeds?

May 2002 - US CA: Medical Marijuana Researchers Bummed About Poor Mississippi Pot Quality ''sticks, seeds and stems ... stale, low-potency ditch weed.''