Funding discrepancies, halted children's study & pot: NIH grilled
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
As Capitol Hill budget hearings tend to go, it was a free-for-all at the 3 March House hearing of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies where top officials from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were grilled on everything from why the agency halted the congressionally authorized National Children's Study to the legalization of marijuana.