A congressional committee has approved a spending bill with an attached report that says researchers should be studying a broader range of marijuana products that better represent “the variety, quality and potency of commonly available cannabis strains” that consumers are actually using.
The House Appropriations Committee report approved on Tuesday covering Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LaborH) also expresses concerns about the lack of technology to detect impaired driving from marijuana and increased reported cases of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS).
One section of the report addresses marijuana research issues, with members stating that they’re concerned that development of a drug-impairment standard for marijuana remains unlikely in the near-term” and encouraging the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to “continue supporting a full range of research on the health effects of marijuana and its components.”
The report also says the committee is “aware that the majority of Federal research has been limited to marijuana from a single source and encourages NIH to undertake research that strives to encompass the variety, quality, and potency of commonly available cannabis strains within the current constraints of law.”
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