¹  Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Marihuana Reconsidered (second edition) (San Francisco: Quick American Archives, 1994), p. 11.

²  Grinspoon, p. 11; 'The Hemp Industry in the United States' in USDA Yearbook (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901), pp. 541-2.

³  Grinspoon, p. 12; John Roulac, Industrial Hemp: Practical Products -- Paper to Fabric to Cosmetics (Ojai, California: Hemptech Publishing, 1995), p. 8; Rowan Robinson, The Great Book of Hemp (Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1996) pp. 129-133.

⁴  Wayne D. Rasmussen, ed., Readings in the History of American Agriculture (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1969), p. 296; Roulac, p. 7

⁵  Grinspoon, p. 17.

⁶  Robinson, p. 147.

⁷  U.S. Congress, House, Ways and Means Committee, Taxation of Marihuana, Hearings on H.R. 6385, 75th Cong., 1st sess., April 27, 1937, statement of Clinton Hester.

⁸  Charles H. Whitebread, II, The History of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the United States: A Speech to the California Judges Association 1995 Annual Conference, (reprinted not for profit by Iowa NORML, 1997).

⁹  U.S. Congress, House, Ways and Means Committee, Taxation of Marihuana, Hearings on H.R. 6385, statements of Harry Anslinger and Clinton Hester.

¹⁰  U.S. Congress, House, Ways and Means Committee, Taxation of Marihuana, Hearings on H.R. 6385, statements of William C. Woodward and Rep. Robert L. Doughton.

¹¹  U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Congressional Record, 75th Cong., 1st sess., June 14, 1937, p. 5575.

¹²  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Office of Applied Studies, Preliminary Estimates from the 1995 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1996), pp. 56-60.

¹³  Ibid.

¹⁴  Ibid.

¹⁵  American Civil Liberties Union, National Surevy of Voters' Opinions on the Use and Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Purposes (Washington, DC: March 31, 1995 - April 5, 1995).

¹⁶  National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding, (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972).

¹⁷  Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports, Crime in the United States: 1972 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973).

¹⁸  National Research Council, An Analysis on Marijuana Policy (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1982).

¹⁹  Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports, Crime in the United States: 1982 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983).

²⁰  Stephen Sidney, M.D. et al., "Marijuana Use and Mortality," American Journal of Public Health, April 1997, p. 5.

²¹  Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports, Crime in the United States: 1995(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996).

²²  Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports, Crime in the United States (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992-1996).

²³  National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Citizens' Guide to Marijuana Laws (Washington, DC: NORML Reports, 1994).

²⁴  Ibid.

²⁵  John Morgan, M.D. and Lynn Zimmer, Ph.D., Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence (New York City: Lindesmith Center, 1997).

²⁶  Adam Smith, "Pot of Trouble," Reason Magazine, May 1997, pp. 47-48.

²⁷  Morgan and Zimmer, Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence.

²⁸  J. Treaster, "Miami Beach's New Drug Weapon: Will Fire Off Letters to the Employer," New York Times, February 23, 1991, p. 9.

²⁹  "Thou Hath No Shame: The Czuprynski Affair," The Champion, September/October 1995, pp. 27-29.

³⁰  Daryl Kelley, "Investigation of Deputy Urged in Fatal Drug Raid," Los Angeles Times, March 31, 1993, p. B4.

³¹  Morgan and Zimmer, Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence.

³²  Ibid.

³³  Ibid.; Illinois Department of Corrections, personal communications with Drs. Morgan and Zimmer, October, 1, 1996.

³⁴  Ibid.; California Deptartment of Justice, Crime and Delinquency in California, 1994 (Sacramento, 1995).

³⁵  Ibid.; New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, Characteristics of 1995 Adult Arrestees for Marijuana (New York City, 1996).

³⁶  Maria L. La Ganga, "DEA Agents Raid Marijuana Club," Los Angeles Times, April 22, 1997, p. A3.

³⁷  United States Sentencing Commission, 1994 Annual Report (Washington, DC: U.S. Sentencing Commission, 1995.), p. 54.

³⁸  Steven R. Donziger, ed., The Real War on Crime: The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission (New York City: HarperPerennial, 1996).

³⁹  Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Drug Control Strategy, 1997 (Washington, DC: ONDCP, 1997).

⁴⁰  Office of National Drug Control Policy, State and Local Spending on Drug Control Activities, Report from the National Survey on State and Local Governments (Washington, DC: ONDCP, 1993)

⁴¹  Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports, Crime in the United States: 1995 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996).

⁴²  Michael Aldridge and Todd Mikuriqy, M.D., "Savings in California Marijuana Law Enforcement Costs Attributable to the Moscone Act of 1976 -- A Summary," Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, January/March, 1988.

⁴³  Ibid.

⁴⁴  In the Matter of Marihuana Rescheduling Petition, Docket 86-22, Opinion, Recommended Ruling, Findings of fact, Conclusions of Law, and Decision of Administrative Law Judge, September 6, 1988 (Washington, DC: Drug Enforcement Administration, 1988).

⁴⁵  R.C. Randall, Cancer Treatment & Marijuana Therapy (Washington, DC: Galen Press, 1990), pp. 217-243; Kevin Zeese, Marijuana: Medical Effectiveness Is Proven By Research (Falls Church, Virginia: Common Sense for Drug Policy, 1997.)

⁴⁶  Rick Doblin, et al., "Marihuana as Anti-emetic Medicine: A Survey of Oncologists' Attitudes and Experiences," Journal of Clinical Oncology: July 1991, pp. 1275-80.

⁴⁷  Lester Grinspoon, M.D., et al.,Marihuana, The Forbidden Medicine (second edition) (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1997); Richard Kaslow, M.D., et al., "No Evidence for a Role of Alcohol or Other Psychoactive Drugs in Accelerating Immunodeficiency in HIV-1 Positive Individuals," Journal of The American Medical Association, June 16, 1989, pp. 3424-29.

⁴⁸  National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, Marijuana and Health (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1982.)