Who Really Controls Lara And Medical Marijuana In Michigan?

[bobandtorey]

How do you know that ?

[bobandtorey]

http://www.inquisitr.com/2269768/michigan-medical-marijuana-review-panel-postpones-vote-on-cannabis-for-autism-parents-upset-over-why/ few more details.

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[Restorium2]

How do you know that ?

The assurances I was given about the people who were tasked to carry out the logistics gave me full confidence that the petition would be forwarded in it's entirety.

With these new revelations about holding back scientific data I started asking around and that's when I found out that my petition lacked the scientific studies I included. 

[GregS]

Tu salud Dave.

[bobandtorey]

The assurances I was given about the people who were tasked to carry out the logistics gave me full confidence that the petition would be forwarded in it's entirety.

With these new revelations about holding back scientific data I started asking around and that's when I found out that my petition lacked the scientific studies I included. 

 

 

Thanks

 

i don't see you just letting it go i know i wouldn't after doing all that work you did because it could make all the difference in getting it Ok ed 

[t-pain]

The assurances I was given about the people who were tasked to carry out the logistics gave me full confidence that the petition would be forwarded in it's entirety.

With these new revelations about holding back scientific data I started asking around and that's when I found out that my petition lacked the scientific studies I included.

wow thats messed up. what can we do to get this fixed?

gotta find some newspaper guy to make a stink about this.

[bobandtorey]

I can ask them what happen to it when i go up their for my 3 minutes if you like ?

[t-pain]

will they let in more public comments?

 

i'm not sure if THIS panel was the one that rejected athsma , so dont accuse them of doing it.

 

but yeah someone should mention it to them that the last panel didnt get the scientific data either.

[GregS]

I have sent the pertinent information to mlive, asking that they report on the issue. Perhaps a press release from the MMMA would get results. How about it zap?

Edited July 24, 2015 by GregS

[GregS]

And I've now sent it to the Lansing State Journal, and will send it to the Free Press and Detroit News.

[GregS]

Oops. The Free Press already has it:
 

Medical pot review panel: State omits autism documents

By Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press 9:41 a.m. EDT July 21, 2015

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State officials on Monday acknowledged they'd omitted hundreds of pages of medical studies from packets supplied to a state review panel slated to consider medical marijuana for treating autism.

The panel will reconvene July 31 to reconsider autism, officials said.

"I became aware several weeks ago that we hadn't received a huge number of documents, maybe six or eight hundred pages," said David Brogren, 61, a retired insurance agent who treats his multiple sclerosis with medical marijuana.

Brogren notifed state officials of the omission two weeks ago and was assured that the materials would be added to panel members voting packets, he said. Yet, at Monday's hearing in a state office building in Lansing, "I brought in this thick pile of documents that they still hadn't given to us" — he got them from the petitioner's lawyer — "and I tossed it on the table," said Brogren, who moved recently from Bloomfield Hills to Mason, near Lansing.

Related: Pot for kids? Some parents say it's good medicine

Staffers of LARA — the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs — called for a 15-minute recess, met with lawyers from the Michigan Attorney General's Office, then offered to provide the missing studies if the panel postponed its hearing to July 31 at 1 p.m., panel member Robert Noiva of Rochester said.

Panel members voted 5-0 to postpone as "the only fair thing to do," said Noiva, associate dean for medical education at Oakland University's William Beaumont School of Medicine in Auburn Hills.

"Licensing and Regulatory Affairs provided the information we were supposed to provide and David Brogren wanted the department to provide the reference materials cited" in the petition, said LARA spokesman Michael Loepp. The Michigan Attorney General's Office referred questions to LARA.

Related: Medical marijuana for autism? Committee to consider it

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Attorney General Bill Schuette (Photo: Kim Mitchell/Detroit Free Press)

Some in the audience, including parents of autistic children, labeled the omission an intentional obstruction by the Michigan Attorney General's Office, headed by Bill Schuette, a strong opponent of medical marijuana. Schuette's staff lawyers initially blocked the autism petition, first filed in May 2014, in a lengthy court fight before dropping opposition in April, said Michael Komorn, a Southfield attorney who successfully argued the case in Ingham County Circuit Court.

Contact Bill Laitner: 313-223-4485 or blaitner@freepress.com.

Edited July 24, 2015 by GregS

[t-pain]

Tell that reporter about the athsma petition that didn't get the research materials given to the panel either