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Nature Medicine 12, 1335 (2006)
Published online: 29 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nm1206-1335b

US marijuana laws clamping the lid on pot research

Brian Vastag1

  1. Washington DC


There are few large-scale studies on medical marijuana users.


A decade after California became the first US state to legalize medical marijuana, one small survey estimates that doctors have recommended the drug to about 350,000 patients. But continuous legal wrangling with the federal government has scared researchers away from tapping into this vast pool to understand how the drug works.

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