The drug-scheduling system, peculiarly the attack to rescheduling, should beryllium reformed to guarantee each beneficial medicines, including marijuana and psilocybin, are disposable to scientists and patients.
Even much concerning, the analyzable enactment betwixt CSA enforcement, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) support and the patent strategy creates a pharmaceutical scenery that privileges high-cost synthetic compounds implicit people occurring substances, portion curtailing wide research. This strategy inhibits contention by granting monopolies to companies that make proprietary therapeutics portion discouraging consequent probe due to the fact that of the challenges of gaining entree to patented substances.
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Marks, M., Shachar, C. Drug scheduling limits entree to indispensable medicines and should beryllium reformed. Nat Med (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-02169-4
Published: 27 January 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-02169-4
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