European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 a a the stars and stripes saturday january 30,1990dea marijuana decision appealed groups seeking of for medical use Washington apr groups trying to make marijuana available for medical uses such As controlling nausea in cancer patients on Friday appealed the drug enforcement administrations decision rejecting the move. The Dea acknowledges that marijuana has been used As a drug for centuries and its therapeutic potential has been noted by doctors for 150 years. But the drug has been illegal in the United states since 1937 a with Only a synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol. The available for medical use a and Dea administrators Lor 15 years have rejected bids to make marijuana itself available to patients most recently last month. On Friday the drug policy foundation acting As attorney for the National organization for the Reform of marijuana Laws and the Alliance for cannabis therapeutics. Took the Case again to the . Court of appeals. Quot this will be the fifth time Quot said Kevin Zeese. Counsel and co founder of the drug policy foundation who was with Normal from 1980 to 1986. The drug policy foundation advocates treating drug abuse As a health problem not a criminal problem. Quot each Lime we be won Quot Zeese said. A but this is the first time the Case is on the Issue of whether marijuana has medical advocates of allowing medical uses of marijuana want the Dea to change marijuana s status As a schedule i drug which is available Only for research to a schedule ii drug which would make it available for patient use. Previous court cases have been More on procedural matters such As whether the Dea held appropriate hearings before rejecting applications. On dec. 29, Dea administrator John c. Lawn rejected a Long standing petition to reclassify marijuana to schedule ii. Overturning a recommendation by Dea s chief administrative Law judge Francis l. Young who hid recommended that marijuana be sex supreme court Justice found dead Washington apr Arthur j. Goldberg former supreme court Justice labor Secretary and ifs. Ambassador to the United nations died thursday at the age of 81. His body was found Friday in his apartment Here. Goldberg s physician. Or. Michael Ness Man. Said Goldberg died late thursday or Early Friday of cardiac arrest from coronary artery Dis ease. Henry f Eish Goldberg or. A Long time Friend of Goldberg said the former Justice was found by a maid lying on a Sola where he apparently had been Reading a newspaper. Appointed to the supreme court on aug. 29, 1962. By president John f. Kennedy. Goldberg reluctantly stepped Down three years later at the urging of president Lyndon b. Johnson who named him . Ambassador following the death of Adlai e. Stevenson. By contrast. Goldberg s tenure at the United nations was frustrating. He resigned in april 1968, separated from the Center of Power in the administration and with the United states mired in the War in Vietnam. Goldberg after returning to the practice of Law in new York was Defeated by Republican Nelson a. Rockefeller in the 1970 race for governor of new York. In 1971, Goldberg left new York and returned to Washington to practice Law and teach at american University. While his name was Seldom in the news in later years he remained Active in Public life. Goldberg a Chicago native and one of 11 children of russian immigrants served As labor Secretary in the Kennedy administration for 19 months starting in 1961. Placed on the less restrictive schedule. Young called marijuana Quot one of the safest therapeutically Active substances known to Quot the evidence in this record clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted As capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people and doing so with safety under medical Young wrote. Quot it would be unreasonable arbitrary and capricious for Dea to continue to stand Between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in Light of the evidence in this Lawn wrote that Young had Quot failed to act As an impartial judge in this matter. He appears to have ignored the scientific evidence ignored the testimony of highly credible and recognized medical experts and instead relied on the testimony of psychiatrists and individuals who used in addition. Lawn said Young had a ignored any evidence presented by the synthetic the is available on schedule ii for use As a cancer chemotherapy anti Nau scant. Marijuana also has been touted As useful in the treatment of glaucoma. Or. C. Stratton Hill of the University of Texas . Anderson cancer Center in Houston said of the Quot the people i know who have used it say its not better ban other anti Emetics a or anti nausea anti vomiting drugs. A to be effective you usually have to give it in the dose that will cause the mind alterations Quot Hill said. A most patients who have cancer done to particularly like that because they re older folks. And that a disturbing to Hill said the use of marijuana a is More an emotional Issue than anything else it s so tied up with the psychological makeup of the person who wants to use it that its difficult to ferret out what its use actually but Zeese said studies by a half dozen states comparing marijuana and the synthetic the for their anti nausea properties have found Quot marijuana a much More effective and much safer As a with the you re taking the pure drug a much More mind Alt eng substance. You Sec god on that stuff. Its like tripping Quot Zeese said. A marijuana is something the patient can control. A cancer patient will take two smokes Oft a marijuana cigarette and that s All he needs. With the a patient takes the whole Pill and is stuck with the whole Pill whether he needs it or not. Quot swallowing a Pill when somebody is nauseous makes it More difficult to begin with and the Lack of control makes it worse Quot he said. Zeese said the biggest problem medical marijuana advocates arc Likely to face is a a general Rule of Law where the court of appeals will usually defer to the head of an Agency considering the Agency is an a one thing we re going to show is the Agency s Lon term Bias Quot Zeese said. We re also going to have to demonstrate Lawn s Bias As Well a his own All sorts of political pressures pressures from Field efforts his Law enforcement Dea spokesman Cornelius Dougherty said lawns personal background a including promises to the wife of slain Dea agent Enrique Camarina that Camarina s efforts against mexican marijuana traffickers would mean something a is not important. A this decision regarding marijuana has been consistent Over the years. With those of his predecessors Quot Dougherty said. A it goes Back to the 1970s that we be been denying those appeals. A the Point Here is that no one has proven. That marijuana docs have an accepted medical use unlike morphine and cocaine Quot which arc schedule ii drugs. Suspected sniper arrested two police officers cowed by a firearm wielding swat learn member restrain Charles Torres while watching people in his House. Torres was arrested thursday for an alleged sniper attack in which two people were shot in Elpaso Texas. The House s five occupants were not arrested but another Man was held for questioning in the shooting. Arson suspected in Forrestal Blaze Jacksonville Fla. Apr the Navy says arson is suspected in a fire aboard the aircraft Carrier Forrestal that injured 11 sailors and caused an estimated $2.5 million in damage a newspaper reported Friday. Quot most logically the fire was intentionally set Quot said the report which was obtained by the Florida times Union in a Freedom of information act request. But Navy investigators have not determined who set the fire which occurred oct. 9 while the ship was docked at naval station Mayport Northeast of Jacksonville. Investigators also said materials used to clean up a fuel spill from the Carrier four Days earlier were improperly stored on the ship. No arrests have been made and the Navy investigation is continuing. The fire broke Oul three Days before the Forrestal was to leave on a six month deployment to the Mediterranean. Repairs delayed the snarl of the deployment until nov. 3. The fire started in an air intake in the ship s no. I main machinery room on the second deck. Fuelled by the Oil clean up material the fire spread through ail electrical Cable to an aircraft elevator machinery room then ignited a fire off one of the Carrier s hangar Bays. Smoke spread through the Carrier forcing the evacuation of 1,000 sailors. T he fire Afi Eclid some navigation aircraft elevator control and weapons systems components and left some parts of the ship without electricity for several Days
