Editorial Board
Congress Needs Marijuana Research
Patients and lawmakers deserve better information.
Study it well, Congress.
Photographer: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty ImagesMembers of Congress are often eager to admit they're not scientists. The trouble is, they also don't like listening to scientists and have tried to keep them from shaping federal policy on issues from national defense to environmental protection to gun violence. Now, America's ignorance-is-bliss Congress has come to fear what scientists might have to say about marijuana.
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