Possession: A Bill to Outlaw Small Amounts for Personal Use Is Before the Legislature. JUNEAU -- Gov. Frank Murkowski on Friday asked the Legislature to overrule a court ruling that adult Alaskans have the right to possess marijuana for personal use in their homes. Murkowski introduced a bill that challenges the state court's ruling and that would significantly tighten other state marijuana laws -- making a lot more pot crimes into felonies. "The Legislature finds that marijuana poses a threat to the public health that justifies prohibiting its use in this state, even by adults in private," the bill declares. [continues 502 words]
Appeals court willing to reconsider Ravin conclusion if new evidence is compelling enough The state is going after the 1975 Alaska Supreme Court decision that says adults can possess up to 4 ounces of marijuana for personal use in their own homes. In an action supported by Gov. Frank Murkowski, the Anchorage district attorney has asked a judge to re-examine the 1975 Ravin v. state conclusion that marijuana in small amounts is essentially harmless to adults and not dangerous enough to override Alaska's constitutional right to privacy at home. [continues 614 words]
To the editor: The political philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote: "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so with be wise, or even right." [continues 272 words]
The political philosopher, John Stuart Mill wrote: "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right." [continues 270 words]
Fifty-nine percent of Alaska voters supported legal medical marijuana in 1998. They wanted people with cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and other debilitating illnesses to have safe, legal access to this valuable herbal medicine. The Alaska Legislature did not follow the electorate's will. It established marijuana possession limits for medical patients lower than those set for Alaska adults generally by the Ravin decision. It also established an empty system of state "approval," demanding patients and caregivers give up their Fifth Amendment rights by requiring them to register with the state, admitting in writing that they are breaking a federal law. Alaska patients are required to grow their own (very difficult), buy it on the black market, or receive it as a gift. Under the current system, each of these involves an illegal act. There is no legal source of marijuana. The promise and intent of the medical marijuana initiative was essentially gutted. Ballot Measure 2 would fix this, allowing easier, safer access of medical marijuana for Alaskans undergoing the racking nausea of chemotherapy or painful muscle spasms of multiple sclerosis, and perhaps restoring the promises of the 1998 medical marijuana initiative. James P. Welch Eagle River [end]
The November Ballot Will Have Voters Answering the Question: Should Marijuana Be Legalized in Alaska? In the 1850s, Abraham Lincoln kept hammering away on a few basic points about American law and society. One of those often-overlooked points was a fairly simple one: Laws instruct citizens. Even if the citizens create them, over time, laws inform public sentiment and eventually alter social mores. So what do citizens do when their laws send them mixed messages? How do conflicting laws instruct a body politic? [continues 1566 words]
Some Question the Need After 2003 State Court Ruling. Alaskans will decide next month whether to overturn a state law making marijuana possession illegal, but a court decision in 2003 may make the effort moot. Legalization advocates are pumping hundreds of thousands in campaign dollars from outside Alaska to promote passage of Ballot Measure 2, while an opposition group in Anchorage operates on a shoestring budget of about $10,000. The marijuana initiative is one of four ballot questions voters will decide on in the Nov. 2 election. [continues 800 words]
Pot advocates are back with an initiative to legalize dope in Alaska, and it's not as half-baked as it was four years ago. Had he been invited to a recent kickoff party for the Proposition 2 initiative to legalize marijuana, even Wev Shea - former U.S. Attorney for Alaska and notorious anti drug-crusader - wouldn't have felt too out of place. Sure, there were the usual suspects - some dread-locked bongo drummers, the occasional tie-dye-clad college student, a girl wearing a pot garland and a spacey smile - the dopers, as Shea is fond of calling them. [continues 2226 words]
This Year's Measure Drops Amnesty For Marijuana Crimes, Allows For Taxation ANCHORAGE - A November ballot measure to support and regulate marijuana in Alaska is being bolstered by an organized campaign of the initiative's backers. The group, called Yes on 2, has taken a different strategy from that employed in 2000, when a similar initiative was defeated. Organizers are asking less of voters in an attempt to make the measure more appealing, they have enlisted a more carefully selected group of spokespeople and they have launched a statewide campaign of television and radio advertisements. [continues 551 words]
Pro-pot side offers 'professional' ads, well-chosen speakers A group calling itself Yes on 2 has begun campaigning in earnest for a November ballot measure to legalize and regulate marijuana in Alaska and has a strategy different from what voters saw for a similar, unsuccessful initiative in 2000. This time around, organizers are asking less of voters in an attempt to make the measure more appealing in the Nov. 2 election. They also have enlisted a more carefully selected group of spokespeople to help make their pitch, including a biomedical professor, a former high-ranking state corrections officer and a prominent Republican Party official. [continues 1284 words]
You published an article ("Privacy wins in pot ruling") Aug. 28 describing the recent Alaska Court of Appeals decision in State v. Crocker (that a search warrant may not be issued for a small amount of personal marijuana in the home -- a crime prohibited by the 1975 Ravin case). You quoted the state attorney general as saying, "At this point the only way to get a search warrant is for someone to testify to the size of the crop." You concluded, "Renkes said he plans to ask the U.S. Attorney's Office to be more aggressive in busting marijuana growers." [continues 141 words]
State Ruling: Federal Anti-Drug Laws on Possession Remain In Place. The Alaska Supreme Court has upheld the right of adult Alaskans to possess up to four ounces of marijuana in their homes for personal use. The high court accomplished this by letting stand a lower court opinion issued last year, which breathed life into a 1975 ruling thought by many to be obsolete. Attorney General Gregg Renkes and Fairbanks defense attorney Bill Satterberg agreed Tuesday that the four-ounce personal-use allowance is now indisputably the law, although it does not immunize Alaskans against federal drug statutes. [continues 838 words]
The Alaska Supreme Court denied on Thursday a petition by the state attorney general's office seeking reconsideration of a decision allowing personal marijuana in the home. The Supreme Court upheld last year's Court of Appeal unanimous ruling in Noy v. State of Alaska that solidified the argument a person's constitutional right to privacy is greater than a voter initiative making marijuana illegal. The Court of Appeals decision was based largely upon a controversial 1975 Alaska Supreme Court opinion handed down in Ravin v. State allowing adults to possess marijuana for personal use in their home. [continues 849 words]
For Some Students, Drugs, Alcohol, And Addiction Are A Way Of Life MELROSE -- Tony Colella, wearing a blue shirt from the carwash where he works part time, cradles his guitar onstage while his childhood friend Dave Crespo introduces the song "Killing Amy." "This song," Crespo says, "is about drug addiction." What Crespo doesn't mention is that he wrote it about Colella. Time was when Colella would have performed the set stoned on marijuana, with pills in his pocket for after the gig. He'd come to practice so wasted on pills that Crespo threatened to throw him out of Ravin Klaim, the band they founded. [continues 2650 words]
I understand that this vote will reinforce what already is the case, but it is clear that under Ravin, as restated this year, personal marijuana possession and cultivation is already legal in Alaska. That would be possession of four ounces and cultivation of up to 25 plants. I find it odd this was not mentioned in your article. I suspect it is because it is a reality many power brokers and gatekeepers find hard to accept. Some seem to think if you stick your head in the sand long enough, reality will just flitter away. [continues 128 words]
Marijuana: Decision Shoots Down State; Earlier Personal Use Ruling Stands. JUNEAU -- The Alaska Court of Appeals has refused to reconsider a case in which it ruled that adults have the right to have marijuana in their homes for personal use. The state appeals court on Friday afternoon denied Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes' petition for a rehearing in the case of David Noy, a North Pole man who was arrested in 2001 after he was found with marijuana in his home. Renkes said that the next step is to ask the Alaska Supreme Court take up the case. [continues 546 words]
The Alaska Court of Appeals will not reconsider its August decision allowing adults to possess as much as a quarter-pound of marijuana in their home. In an opinion released Friday, the court denied the Alaska attorney general's petition to rehear the case, which invalidated a 1990 voter initiative criminalizing all amounts of marijuana by calling the resulting ban on personal pot use in the home unconstitutional. The court rejected all the assertions the attorney general's office made in arguing that the decision was flawed in the case of Noy v. State, which resulted in Attorney General Gregg Renkes instructing all state law enforcement agencies not to arrest or cite adults for personal marijuana use in their home. [continues 765 words]
Juneau, Alaska -- Wev Shea has been fighting Alaska's marijuana laws for more than two decades. And what a long strained trip it's been. As a U.S. attorney in Alaska a decade ago, Shea took a tough stand against illegal drugs and was often criticized for it. In 1990, he backed the initiative that criminalized pot in the state. In 1998, he unsuccessfully fought a voter initiative for medical marijuana. And in 2000, he helped defeat what he called a "bizarre" attempt to legalize marijuana and consider reparations for some drug convicts. [continues 990 words]
Pot vs. Privacy Oct. 14 - David Noy doesn't deny he had a few ounces of marijuana in his house. He doesn't even deny he had some plants growing in his basement. He just doesn't think he should go to jail over it. And the second-highest court in Alaska has agreed with him. The state Court of Appeals cited the right to privacy as the reason for its decision, and the ruling has thrown drug enforcement officials into confusion. [continues 1029 words]
MARIJUANA: Attorney General Wants Police To Investigate Cases Regardless Of Amount Of Drug. JUNEAU -- State troopers and local police should work to build federal cases out of marijuana use that a state appeals court has declared to be legal under state law, Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes said Tuesday. In a memo to state prosecutors and the head of the Alaska State Troopers, Renkes said that law enforcement agencies should not make arrests or cite people for possessing modest amounts of marijuana for personal use at home. [continues 807 words]
Attorney General Gregg Renkes instructed state law enforcement Tuesday not to arrest or cite adults for personal marijuana possession in their home. Renkes' announcement came in light of a recent Alaska Court of Appeals decision that called a portion of the state's marijuana laws unconstitutional. "I am advising the Alaska State Troopers and directing that the district attorneys advise their local law enforcement not to arrest or cite any adult for a violation of state law under the circumstances protected by the Court of Appeals," Renkes wrote in a memo to the Department of Public Safety and the state's district attorneys. [continues 903 words]
In Mr. Barton's letter "Appeals Court ruling on marijuana places police agencies at odds" (Sept. 9) he exemplifies part of the problem in police forces today. Surely Mr. Barton, being a law enforcement officer, knows something about constitutional and legal processes. Therefore I assume he also knows a constitutional right cannot be voted in or out with a simple voter initiative. The Ravin decision has been the supreme law in Alaska concerning adult possession of small amounts of cannabis in the home since 1975. [continues 154 words]
No surprise: 1990 ban is invalid Surprise: APD will ignore ruling The state Court of Appeals made headlines last week with its ruling in a marijuana case. The justices said the right of privacy in Alaska's Constitution gives adult Alaskans the right to possess a small amount of marijuana for personal use in their own homes. The ruling shouldn't be a surprise. The Alaska Supreme Court has never reversed its ruling in Ravin v. State, a 1975 case that established a constitutional right to possess up to four ounces of marijuana in the privacy of one's own home. [continues 565 words]
A couple years ago David Noy was smoking some fish at his house in North Pole. Or rather he was grilling some salmon and smoking some herb in a recipe that was detectable if not delectable to the local police, and he got busted. Not for the barbecue -- for the pot. David Noy was convicted of sixth degree misconduct involving a controlled substance -- a misdemeanor -- possessing an amount of marijuana that is statutorily defined as for personal use. He had pot plants in his house and the things to make them grow and the stuff to smoke 'em when they did. [continues 611 words]
Law enforcement authorities on the Kenai Peninsula are in a holding pattern right now with regard to a recent appellate court ruling involving the state's marijuana possession law. In an opinion overturning a jury's verdict in a Fairbanks case, the Alaska Court of Appeals ruled Alaskans may possess less than 4 ounces of marijuana in their homes for personal use. Essentially the decision changes the state possession law back to the way it was before Alaska voters took a zero tolerance stance on pot in 1990. [continues 526 words]
Law Enforcement Dazed and Confused, Suffering Denial "Alaska citizens have the right to possess less than four ounces of marijuana in their home for personal use." - Alaska Court of Appeals, Noy v. State, August 29, 2003 The Alaska Court of Appeals ruled August 29 that Alaska residents may possess up to four ounces of marijuana in their own homes without any criminal or civil penalty. The ruling, which cites a 1975 Alaska Supreme Court finding that the Alaska constitution's privacy provisions protect the personal possession and use of marijuana in the home, once again makes Alaska the only state in the country with legal marijuana in the home. (After the 1975 Ravin v. Alaska decision, the Alaska legislature eventually removed criminal penalties for possession of less than four ounces, but a 1990 voter initiative cheerlead by then drug czar William Bennett recriminalized simple pot possession. It has taken until now for the appeals courts to rule on a case that challenged the constitutionality of the 1990 vote.) [continues 967 words]
BUSTS: Anchorage police to enforce ban on marijuana in home, but troopers will not. JUNEAU -- So, is pot legal in Alaska now? Alaska law enforcement agencies are split in their reaction to last week's state appeals court decision that adult Alaskans have the right to possess a modest amount of marijuana in their homes for personal use. Anchorage police will continue to enforce a pot ban. But the Alaska State Troopers will not, according to Public Safety Commissioner Bill Tandeske. [continues 858 words]
Adults can legally possess as much as a quarter pound of marijuana in their home, the Alaska Court of Appeals declared in an opinion released Friday. The opinion, which stemmed from an appeal in a Fairbanks case, called personal marijuana use in the home by an adult a right guaranteed by the state constitution. "With regard to possession of marijuana by adults in their home for personal use, (the law) must be interpreted to prohibit only the possession of 4 ounces or more of marijuana," wrote Court of Appeals Judge David Stewart in the conclusion of the unanimous decision. [continues 1170 words]
When a Fairbanks judge last month dismissed a local man's conviction for marijuana possession based on a claim that he has a state constitutional right to possess small amounts of pot in his home, the man's argument was far from original. Ever since voters in 1990 passed an initiative to criminalize possession of any amount of marijuana in any location, attorneys, defendants and privacy advocates have asserted that the law is unconstitutional as determined by the 1975 state Supreme Court decision made in Ravin v. State. [continues 566 words]
The fate of an argument that the Alaska Constitution gives adults the right to possess small amounts of marijuana in their homes could be decided by a local case being considered by the Alaska Court of Appeals. A lawyer for a North Pole man convicted in 2001 of possessing marijuana in his home has appealed the conviction based on a claim that a nearly three-decade-old Alaska Supreme Court decision declaring personal pot possession a state constitutional right is still the law. [continues 1067 words]
Judicial Day of Reckoning Coming An Alaska Superior Court judge in Fairbanks has dismissed a man's conviction for marijuana possession on the grounds that the Alaska state constitution's privacy provisions guarantee the right to possess marijuana for personal use. Judge Richard Savell dismissed the conviction against Scott A. Thomas on June 25. He had been charged with three counts of felony fourth-degree misconduct for growing pot plants in his home last summer, but a jury found him guilty of only one count of misdemeanor marijuana possession, and now that has been thrown out. [continues 600 words]
MARIJUANA: Judge Rules State Constitution Allows Possession If There's No Intent to Sell. FAIRBANKS -- A Superior Court judge dismissed a man's marijuana conviction, ruling that the Alaska Constitution guarantees the right to possess marijuana for personal use in the home. Judge Richard Savell of Fairbanks dismissed Scott A. Thomas' conviction. Thomas was charged with three counts of felony fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance for allegedly growing pot plants in his home last summer. A jury found him guilty of one count of a misdemeanor charge of sixth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance for possessing 2.6 ounces of marijuana. [continues 266 words]
A Fairbanks judge ruled the Alaska Constitution guarantees a local man the right to possess marijuana for personal use in his home. In a decision rendered last week, Superior Court Judge Richard Savell dismissed the Fairbanks man's conviction for pot possession, ruling that a 1975 Alaska Supreme Court decision legalizing personal marijuana use by an adult in their home is still the law. Savell agreed with arguments made by an attorney for Scott A. Thomas, 42, who was charged with three counts of felony fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance for allegedly growing pot plants in a Tonsina Drive residence last summer. [continues 536 words]
Four times in the last week the Daily News has mentioned the late Chief Justice Jay Rabinowitz without mentioning that he was the author of the Ravin decision. In 1975, the Alaska Supreme Court unanimously ruled that our constitutional right to privacy includes the right to use marijuana. The Daily News editorial board even quoted from this landmark decision without referencing it. On June 23 the Voice of the Times chose to laud Justice Rabinowitz but they too chose to ignore the decision for which he is probably most famous. Is this omission just an oversight? Or could it be that the Daily News and the Voice of the Times do not wish to publicize the fact that the Ravin decision is still law and that everyone busted for small amounts of marijuana since 1990 have had their constitutional rights violated? [continues 97 words]
I am amazed at the gross irresponsibility of our Anchorage Police Department. I am angry at the moronic waste of city resources. The recent raids on local businesses ("Cops raid shops for 'paraphernalia,' " March 19) are prime examples of moral fascism, and will have absolutely no effect on the amount of marijuana smoked in Anchorage. All it does is show how out of touch our elected and public safety officials are. In America last year, we spent over 18 billion taxpayer dollars in a failed attempt to stem the use of drugs. Between 1997 and 1999, more than two million Americans were arrested for marijuana offenses, and most of those arrests were for possession. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, one out of every three adults has used marijuana. Tens of millions have used marijuana in the past year. [continues 114 words]
The recent raids by the Anchorage police of legitimate merchants for the crime of "selling drug paraphernalia" is an egregious waste of valuable police resources and an affront to the rights of all Alaskans, especially those who use marijuana as medicine. Thanks to this action, merchants who pay thousands of dollars in property taxes and employ dozens of workers are facing financial ruin. Why? Have we done such a good job in solving violent and property crimes that busting vendors of glass pipes has moved to the top of the agenda? Police, including five detectives, spent from noon to 11 p.m. just confiscating property from one very small store. Another 30-plus police man-hours was spent at the Black Market. What a waste. [continues 105 words]
Marijuana proponents were taking a hard hit from voters who were rejecting the proposition that not only would have legalized the drug for adults, but would have opened jail doors and urged restitution for marijuana offenders. With about half the precincts reporting, the measure was failing by a nearly 2-to-1 ratio. But supporters hadn't given up victory. "We knew it'd be uphill," said Al Anders, chairman of Free Hemp in Alaska. "At least we got the chance to educate voters that the Ravin decision is still the law, and all these small marijuana busts are unconstitutional." [continues 598 words]
Millions of Americans who are highly productive and stable secretly choose marijuana over martinis, saying that marijuana is less toxic to their bodies than alcohol. But while the government classifies both substances as drugs, mysteriously one is legal while the other is not. The scientific evidence does not justify this distinction. The National Academy of Sciences has concluded that marijuana is one of the least dangerous drugs, legal or otherwise. More than a dozen commissions in the U.S. and other countries have found that its dangers have been exaggerated and that moderate use is rarely harmful. [continues 604 words]
The articles "Alaska's top crop" (Oct. 15) and "Details cloud debates for, against Prop. 5" (Oct. 16) failed to mention an important aspect pertaining to our current debate over the legalization status of marijuana in Alaska. ADN reporters S.J. Komarnitsky and Liz Ruskin both attempted to delineate a chronology of events regarding the convoluted history of marijuana legalization in Alaska. Unfortunately, and in my opinion, irresponsibly, neither reported the fact that the 1990 recriminalization law was specifically deemed unconstitutional in a Superior Court in 1993 (State vs. McNeil). [continues 133 words]
ADN reporters S.J. Komarnitsky and Liz Ruskin both attempted to delineate a chronology of events regarding the convoluted history of marijuana legalization in Alaska. Unfortunately, and in my opinion, irresponsibly, neither reported the fact that the 1990 recriminalization law was specifically deemed unconstitutional in a Superior Court in 1993 (State vs. McNeil). McNeil's possession conviction was reversed because the 1990 initiative was "inadequate to overrule" the 1975 Alaska Supreme Court decision in Ravin vs. State. Our Supreme Court has not reversed Ravin, and the basis of their decision, the privacy clause of Alaska's constitution, has never been amended or deleted. [continues 78 words]
The citizens initiative to legalize marijuana, which will appear as Proposition 5 on the ballot next month, will do much more than legalize marijuana. And it's the details that have some opponents up in arms. "What they're asking for is the moon and everything in it," said Aaron Harrop, a substance abuse counselor who is co-chairman of the No on 5 campaign. Len Karpinski, the Anchorage man who drafted the proposed law, said Proposition 5 began as a bill proposed years ago by Californian Jack Herer, author of the pro-hemp primer "The Emperor Wears No Clothes." "I just took the text, and where it said 'California' I put 'Alaska,' " Karpinski said. " 'Secretary of State' became 'lieutenant governor.' " [continues 1592 words]
The citizens initiative to legalize marijuana, which will appear as Proposition 5 on the ballot next month, will do much more than legalize marijuana. And it's the details that have some opponents up in arms. "What they're asking for is the moon and everything in it," said Aaron Harrop, a substance abuse counselor who is co-chairman of the No on 5 campaign. Len Karpinski, the Anchorage man who drafted the proposed law, said Proposition 5 began as a bill proposed years ago by Californian Jack Herer, author of the pro-hemp primer "The Emperor Wears No Clothes." [continues 1591 words]
I recently attended the Prince Rupert Trade Show with Const. Josee Valiquette. During the weekend, the most commonly asked question of me was "what is ecstasy?" Ecstasy has hit the news lately because of the growing popularity of the Rave Scene that is the rage of young people all across the country. It has become a 1990's way to recapture the peace, love, unity and respect (PLUR) of the 1960's. A Rave is an all night dance party where the people dance to techno dance music. Raves do not sell liquor and are suppose to be "drug free". [continues 422 words]
Underground revellers preach how to party People in the city's rave underground say they're taking their own steps to stop overdoses and rampant drug abuse at the popular dance parties. Several rave-goers got together over the winter to form Rave-Safe, a volunteer group that hands out pamphlets on recreational drug use at raves around town. "Being ravers ourselves, we started seeing a decline in the number of happy people showing up," said Rave-Safe spokesman Mike Peebles. [continues 334 words]
In the Nov. 26 Daily News story "Battling from the fringe," an Alaska state legislator said he was dismayed because we are again facing the issue of decriminalizing cannabis. Many of his fellow Alaskans have been dismayed because Alaska state legislators often bring up the same issues again and again. Key issues of "decriminalization" should be: Does it have safeguards against children and other unauthorized people getting possession of cannabis, and, as important, does it protect the privacy rights of Alaskans as cited in the court case Ravin and reaffirmed in McNeil? [continues 181 words]
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN respondent and CHRISTOPHER CLAY and JORDAN KENT PRENTICE Applicants Heard at London: April 28, 29, and 30, and May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20 and 22, 1997. McCART J.: (Delivered orally August 14, 1997) The accused were jointly charged that on or about the 17th day of May, 1995 at the City of London did unlawfully traffic in a narcotic, namely cannabis sativa, contrary to s.4(1) of the Narcotic Control Act and further, that on or about the 17th day of May, 1995 at the City of London did unlawfully possess a narcotic, namely cannabis sativa, for the purpose of trafficking contrary to s.4(2) of the Narcotic Control Act. In addition, Clay alone was charged that on the same date he did unlawfully traffic in a narcotic, namely cannabis sativa; that he did unlawfully possess a narcotic, namely cannabis sativa for the purpose of trafficking; and did unlawfully cultivate marijuana contrary to s.6(1) of the Narcotic Control Act. [continues 8128 words]
B E T W E E N: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN Respondent -and CHRISTOPHER CLAY Applicant I, LESTER GRINSPOON M.D., of the City of Boston in the State of Massachusetts, MAKE OATH AND SAY AS FOLLOWS: 1. I am currently an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School in Boston and have been a professor at Harvard since 1973. I have written approximately 29 articles on various aspects of the use of cannabis, and I have been studying the social and medical aspects of cannabis use since 1967. In addition, I have authored two books on cannabis; namely, Marihuana Reconsidered (1971, Harvard University Press. 1st ed.; 1977, 2nd ed.; classic ed. 1994) and Marihuana.. The Forbidden Medicine (1993, Yale University Press). My book, Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine has been translated into eight languages. In 1990, I was awarded the Alfred Lindesmith Award for Achievement in the Field of Scholarship. Attached hereto as Exhibit "A" is a true copy of my curriculum vitae. Attached hereto as Exhibit "B" are copies of the two books noted in this paragraph. [continues 2640 words]
