Health Freedom

"They grabbed the door and jerked it open," says one patient who spoke to KAKE News on a condition of anonymity. "And then they grabbed my left arm and pulled it up behind me. They said we can do this the easy way or the hard way."

“There is nothing wrong, unethical, illegal, immoral about any of this. … This is an attack on my fundamental liberty to do our work,” Reynolds told The Associated Press.

The DEA is blocking medical marijuana research -- while citing a lack of research to justify its continuing campaigns against medical marijuana users and state medical marijuana laws.

Right now is a unique window of opportunity to end the federal government's decades-long stranglehold on research into marijuana's potential as an FDA-approved prescription medicine. On May 15, 2007, DEA Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner issued an Opinion and Recommended Ruling to DEA in favor of Prof. Craker's application to grow research-grade marijuana at the University of Massachusetts--Amherst. Prof. Craker's facility would end NIDA's decades-long monopoly on the supply of marijuana that can be used in FDA-approved research, and is the focal point of the struggle to bring medical marijuana before the FDA to evaluate whether it meets federal standards for safety and efficacy as a prescription medicine.

Other critics are lambasting federal agencies for not having done enough to stop Speaker. Stop him from what? Getting on a plane when he had broken no law? Do we really want the government to be able to detain someone simply because he may have a disease that is serious but is not a threat to others? Should a citizen's own government be allowed to turn him away at the border as he seeks to re-enter his country, just because someone decided to place him on an advisory "watch list"? I think not.

The Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117, introduced by Rep. Ron Paul, M.D., (R-TX), would stop the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from censoring truthful claims about the curative, preventative, or mitigative effects of dietary supplements

Efforts continue in state legislatures across the country to force twelve-year old girls to submit to a regimen of vaccines for certain strains of the Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV. This drive to coerce families into submitting to yet another state-mandated round of vaccinations has illustrated just how reckless legislators can be with the health of citizens while bringing to the fore the immense power exercised by drug companies supposedly regulated by the FDA.

For years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have continued to censor and engage in heavy-handed attempts to restrict access to supplements and educational information for Americans, even when courts have ruled the public has a right to information about dietary supplements and should judge the merits of health claims for supplements for themselves rather than having the FDA make such decisions.