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House
Judiciary
Committee
holds
hearings
on
medical
marijuana
10/3/97
On October 1, proponents and opponents of medical marijuana testified
before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime. Reportedly,
attendance by the Subcommittee members was poor, and the event did not
receive extensive media coverage.
According to the NORML Foundation, medical marijuana proponents testifying
at the hearing included Dennis Peron, Director of the San Francisco Cultivators'
Club, Dr. Lester Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School, and Roger Pilon,
Ph.D., J.D., Director of the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional
Studies. Subcommittee members Bob Barr (R- GA) and Asa Hutchinson (R-AR)
opposed government sponsored research on medical marijuana.
Dr. Grinspoon's testimony can be found on the NORML web site at http://www.norml.org/medical/grin1097.hr1782.shtml.
Roger Pilon's testimony can be found at http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-rp100197.html
on the Cato Institute's web site.
HOT OFF THE PRESS: The revised, expanded edition of Marihuana, The Forbidden
Medicine, by Lester Grinspoon and James Bakaler, is now available. Visit
your local bookstore and ask them to stock and display it.
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Issue #14, 10/3/97
Web Magazine Rates Drug Library a Perfect Five | DPF Conference This Month: The 11th International Conference on Drug Policy taking place in New Orleans | Swiss Vote Overwhelmingly Against Zero-Tolerance | House Judiciary Committee holds hearings on medical marijuana | Needle Exchange Funding: Grant info for large, small and start-up needle exchange programs | Substance Abuse Research Grants: Call for proposals from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | McCaffrey and Methadone | British Newspaper Launches Campaign to Legalize Cannabis | Rash of Overdoses in Australia | Colombian President Defends His Drug War Record | Link of the Week: Monitoring the Colombia situation | Quote of the Week: An about face by ex-general McCaffrey on the public's ability to decide the medical marijuana issue | Editorial: The Swiss opt out of another war
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