DOST not yet researching on marijuana medicine
>> Wednesday, January 2, 2019
BAGUIO
CITY -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in Cordillera, at
this time, is not yet doing a research on the medicinal quality of marijuana,
DOST Regional Director Nancy Bantog said.
“Wala pa akong naririnig
sa agency namin (I have not heard of it in our agency),” she said on
ongoing researches about marijuana, which was abundant in the Cordillera based
on the number of plantations already raided by authorities.
House Bill 6517 or the
Act Providing Filipinos Right of Access to Medical Marijuana was filed by
Isabela Rep. Rodito Albano in June.
Bantog,
however, said the problem now is the absence of a protocol for research on
marijuana.
“Kailangan hanapin namin
ang protocol ng office kasi regulated yan. One thing, it is a regulated
material, sino ba ang dapat gumawa ngresearch? Is it just anybody doing a
research, or will there be a specific institution? Yun siguro ang
dapat in place and I still have to verify pa (We need to find out if the
office [DOST] has a protocol because it is a regulated material. Who should do
the research? Is it just anybody or an institution should do it, I will still
verify),” she said.
Bantog said the DOST has
a research arm and one of the thrusts of the DOST-Cordillera is health, the
reason it could do the research as long as it is guided by a protocol.
“Wala tayong control
kung may magsa-submit sa amin. But from our end, we need to refer that to
the higher authorities kung ano angprotocol natin,” she said.
Aside from the DOST, the
Department of Health (DOH) also has a research component.
But Bantog said she has
no idea if there are plans to research on marijuana's medicinal uses. --
PNA
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