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House appropriators have a bipartisan curiosity about pot.
Lawmakers added a provision to the fiscal year 2016 Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill that would direct the Drug Enforcement Administration to research how well medical marijuana works.
Outspoken House members from both sides of the medical marijuana debate back the effort because both sides expect the science to support their position.
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., a physician and House Appropriations Committee member who last year said, “This is not a medicine,” in a floor debate, worked to include the provision in the bill. The language became part of the $51.4 billion C-J-S bill in an 11-page manager’s amendment on Wednesday.
“He believes that our drug policy should be based on sound science, which is sorely lacking in the medical efficacy of marijuana,” Harris spokeswoman Shelby Hodgkins said. “More research needs to be done on the medical efficacy of marijuana.”
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