Special Commentary: Advocating the rescheduling of marijuana in US federal and state drug law to permit the use of medical marijuana in the pediatric patient population

Phillip M. Rowell II

Abstract


Congress must pass the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States Act of 2015 in order to reschedule marijuana at the federal level to allow the progression of clinical research, general production, and prescription of medical marijuana to alleviate the suffering of pediatric patients with medical conditions that would benefit from use of the drug. 


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