{"id":7770,"date":"2017-10-04T23:40:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T23:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2811148&amp;preview_id=2811148"},"modified":"2017-10-04T23:40:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T23:40:20","slug":"fda-hints-it-may-crack-down-on-marijuana-products-that-claim-health-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/fda-hints-it-may-crack-down-on-marijuana-products-that-claim-health-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA hints it may crack down on marijuana products that claim health benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/fda-hints-it-may-crack-down-on-marijuana-products-that-claim-health-benefits\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Oct 3, 2017, 3:12 pm \u2022 Updated: Oct 4, 2017, 8:19 am<span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>Drew Armstrong and Michelle Fay Cortez<\/strong>, <em> Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may start cracking down on claims that marijuana has health benefits that haven\u2019t been proven, the agency\u2019s commissioner said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see people who are developing products who are making claims that marijuana has antitumor effects in the setting of cancer,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/04\/05\/fda-scott-gottlieb-opioid-epidemic-trump\/76693\/\">FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb<\/a> said at a hearing before Congress on a separate matter. \u201cIt\u2019s a much broader question about where our responsibility is to step into this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to start looking at rules around the plant, which some states have legalized for medicinal or recreational use, the commissioner said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll have some answers to this question very soon because I think we do bear some responsibility to start to address these questions,\u201d Gottlieb said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may start cracking down on unproven claims that marijuana has health benefits, the agency&#8217;s commissioner said Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[460,531,330,7153,6892,77,6999,56,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[3034,3105,2908,7155,6893,2655,7000,2636,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}