Medical Marijuana: Review and Analysis of Federal and State Policies
Mark Eddy, "Medical Marijuana: Review and Analysis of Federal and State Policies," Congressional Research Service, RL33211 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Sept. 20, 2007).
This report, prepared by the public policy research arm of the U.S. Congress, provides a comprehensive overview of medical marijuana policy developments since 1937. The report includes many interesting nuggets rarely reported in the U.S. news media, including information about use of vaporizers and this telling quote from the American Medical Association's legislative counsel, who opposed the first federal ban on marijuana in 1937: "Since the medicinal use of cannabis has not caused and is not causing addiction, the prevention of the use of the drug for medicinal purposes can accomplish no good end whatsoever."
This report is available by request through your Congress member: CRS does not provide a readily accessible means of public access to this report, but an earlier version of this document is available without charge at http://opencrs.com/document/RL33211/
