Center for Drug Evaluation and Research growing crisis around HIV testing and treatment and an inter-agency dispute between officials from the former Bureau of Drugs and officials from the former Bureau of Biologics over whether to approve Genentech's Activase (tissue plasminogen activator) led to the split. In its original form, CDER was composed of six offices: Management, Compliance, Drug Standards, Drug Evaluation I, Drug Evaluation II, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Research Resources. The Division of Antiviral Products was added in 1989 under Drug Evaluation II due to the large amount of drugs proposed for treating AIDS. The Office of Generic Drugs was also formed. In 2002,
Cannabis (drug) in the United States and several U.S. states have legalized recreational or medical use. Private use of cannabis was legalized in September 2018 after a unanimous decision by the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. South Africa is the world's third largest producer of cannabis and the plant has historically been used by traditional healers and Rastafari. Footnotes Citations Cannabis (drug) Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the "Cannabis" plant used for medical or recreational purposes. The main psychoactive part of cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of 483 known compounds in the plant, including at