throckmorton. dr. throckmorton. excuse me. are products available in state-regulated markets like edibles, concentrates, oils, wax, tropicals, for example, ets cetera, i mean, those particular products, are they commonly available to clinical investigatorsfederal through fe sources? and if not, how might that pose a risk to the public health? >> i wouldn't be able to comment on their availability to the non drug centers.s.>> that isn't part of what i regulate. i focus on the drug side.m on the drug side with the hey passage of the farm bill, hemp-derived compounds are now available for research.in any and we're eager to support that any way we possibly can. we think that's an exciting new avenue to get some of the questions we really desperately need answered. onenetor, more question.lnesse with the recent spate of lung illnesses related to illicit thc vaping products, what were some of the key takeaways, lessons learned, regarding the federal ? state of oversight and research into current products and consumption methods? >>

throckmorton. things like that and the ways these are being consumed and doses and populations and the perceived benefits are all changing. we as a federal architecture need to find some way to track that to understand and identify new risks as they emerge quickly and things like it. it is a challenge for all of us working in the area. >> i thank you very much and i agree. i am going to yield the rest of my time to mr. griffin. >> thank you. >> four years ago da accepted for the research grade marijuana in order to increase the diversity of products for scientists to study. as we heard earlier today da intends to propose new regulations that would govern for scientific medical research. can we have your assurance that the dea will work to review applications to produce marijuana for federally approved scientific research and will current applicants be amended to their applications to conform to the new rule. >> and your first comment is yes, we definitely will move expeditious ly. we appreciate you

. >> doctor throckmorton, you mentioned the fda, it is more about the safety of these products. among the list, with special populations like the elderly, children, adolescents and lactating women. can you elaborate more on this? >> the best data we have available comes from controlled trials used to approve dialects, product and procedure disorders. it was conducted largely in young children so we simply don't have any extensive randomized controlled trials in those populations. we acknowledge they are terribly important. we also posted on the web what we do know about demographics of response to the drugs so you can go on to drug trial snapshot page and it will show you the safety and effectiveness, have them broken down by sex, gender, age, ethnicity and you can see for yourself what you know about that but we need a lot more information to expand that to understand the impact, because they simply weren't in the trials. they haven't had that opportunity yet but it is something we are working to fill as quickly as we can. >> assuming you are working to get more diverse city in

ready for prime time and it can be used in a positive way but as many witnesses pointed out, miss throckmorton showed a case where a person was innocent yet put into jail based on false information which needs to be used in positive ways but also severely impact civil rights and liberties of individuals. at this point i would like to recognize my colleague from the great state of california for his statement because he was misidentified. he was one of 28 that american civil liberties union showed was misidentified. >> and and and we have a relationship with a lot of tech companies to have this strained. the benefit this technology could give us but overmarketing and lack of social responsibilities, i had a privacy bill in the legislature that was killed and it came from a district attorney, a district attorney told me about a serial rapist, to get victims information for third-party he was paying for and provided an opt out. he was killed dramatically in the first committee after i was able to get it out of the senate and to help mister gomez helped me but in that context if i had a dime for e