<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/44e120c6-ad39-461d-9e8c-26e6dec8c16a/5D5CF77F-7016-4E9D-A529-18ADF971454D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/viewresource.asp?resourceID=3068" href="http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/viewresource.asp?resourceID=3068" style="font-size: 11px;">medicalmarijuana.procon.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/viewresource.asp?resourceID=3068"><DIV class="title">US Government Seeks Applications to Grow Marijuana for Federal Research</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/viewresource.asp?resourceID=3068"><DIV><TABLE align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><IMG border="0" src="http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/files/mj images/tinduo.jpg" alt="" /></TD></TR><TR><TD><P align="center"><SPAN>Tin of medical marijuana cigarettes provided to IND patients by the federal government. Source: ProCon.org</SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>On Aug. 5, 2009, the <A href="http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/viewsource.asp?ID=000260">National Institute on Drug Abuse</A> (NIDA) announced its request for proposal (RFP) seeking someone to grow marijuana for government research and for the <A href="http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/viewanswers.asp?questionID=000256">Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) program</A>. Submission deadline is Oct. 9, 2009.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/viewresource.asp?resourceID=3068"><DIV>The one to five year contract requires the grower to produce a minimum of 125,000 marijuana cigarettes in four potencies from "placebo" (0% THC) to "high" (3.5-5% THC), plus 500-1,000 cigarettes at greater than 5% THC. NIDA has the option to request either 1.5 or 6.5 acres of marijuana per year under the contract.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5D5CF77F-7016-4E9D-A529-18ADF971454D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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