In 1970, psychedelic drugs were classified as drugs of abuse, with no medical value.
It is no surprise that the Food and Drug Administration dismissed the medical value of cannabis.
"The fact is there is absolutely no medical value in circumcising girls," she says.
Thus, early in its modern history, the French government lectured mothers on the medical value of dietary control.
Faigman likens the acceptance of fingerprint evidence to the way leeches were once assumed to be of great medical value.
The EFPTOZ chart (pictured here) has practically become iconic, undermining its medical value, Colenbrander says.
Scientists are far from done determining music's impact, and there are certainly those who are skeptical about its medical value.
"But in this case, his administration is upholding a failed drug war approach instead of looking at real, existing evidence that marijuana has medical value".
Will Mr. Bush also ignore the National Institutes of Health report on the dazzling medical value of embryonic stem cell research?
But fruit fly genes are of no direct medical value, and the two sides were able to share credit and make their data public without acrimony.
But until science concludes that smoking marijuana has a true medical value, the agency is mandated by law to stop trafficking of this drug.
