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This advertisement appeared in the National Review, the The New Republic, the Weekly Standard, The Nation, Reason Magazine and The Progressive in the spring of 2001.

It Is Time For The Federal Government To Provide Safe Access To Medical Marijuana The Facts Are In In March 1999, the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine concluded "there are some limited circumstances in which we recommend smoking marijuana for medical purposes." The report noted, "Nausea, appetite loss, pain and anxiety . . . all can be mitigated by marijuana." Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A. Benson, Jr., "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base," Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, Institute of Medicine, (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999). "Federal authorities should rescind their prohibition of the medicinal use of marijuana for seriously ill patients and allow physicians to decide which patients to treat." Editorial, New England Journal of Medicine, January 30, 1997. Among the organizations that have endorsed medical access to marijuana are: American Academy of Family Physicians: American Bar Association: American Public Health Association: American Society of Addiction Medicine: AIDS Action Council: British Medical Association: California Academy of Family Physicians: California Medical Association: California- Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church: Consumer Reports Magazine: Institute of Medicine: Kaiser Permanente: Lymphoma Foundation of America: Multiple Sclerosis California Action Network: National Association of Attorneys General: National Association of People with AIDS: National Nurses Society on Addictions: New Mexico Nurses Association. The Public Has Spoken: Between 1996 and 2000, seven states passed voter initiatives legalizing the medicinal use of cannabis (AZ, CA, ME, OR, WA, NV and AK). These states encompass 20 percent of the US population. Every time US citizens have voted on medical marijuana they have voted for medical marijuana: support has ranged from 54 to 65 percent. A nationwide Gallup poll taken on March 19-21, 1999, found that 73% of American adults are for "making marijuana legally available for doctors to prescribe in order to reduce pain and suffering." The Federal Government Should Stop Treating Seriously Ill Americans As Criminals. For more information, visit Drug War Facts: Medical Marijuana Common Sense for Drug Policy Kevin B. Zeese, President 3220 N Street NW #141, Washington, DC 20007 703-354-9050 -- 703-354-5695 (fax) www.csdp.org -- www.DrugWarFacts.org info@csdp.org

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		Introduction Supreme Court Justice Questions Marijuana Policy Meet the Drug War Winners and Losers Iraq Vets Victims of the Drug War A Letter to Mom The Blue Ribbon Report Richard Nixon Chose to Bury Good News for Doctors and Pain Patients The Man Who Gave Us the Drug War The Devil Weed and Harry Anslinger Why Not Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Is It Sound Policy to Jail Expectant Mothers A Riveting 12-Minute Documentary Mexico Is Becoming the Next Colombia Suffering from Chronic Pain Another Drug Baby Media Scare Methamphetamine Crisis - Hype Or Fact They're telling the Attorney General to butt out How can judges and jurors dispense justice and mercy without relevant information? Urine drug testing fails at school and work Isn't rewarding achievement the American way? Are we addicted to drug war money? Who says we are winning the drug war? Shafer Commission 30th Anniversary The public is saying 'No More Drug War!' Now we are in a real war . . . isn't it time to abandon the war on ourselves? Is the funding of terrorism another unintended consequence of drug prohibition? Should Coerced Treatment Replace Prison For First Time, Non-Violent Drug Offenders? Change of Tune on drug policy? UK Police End Cannabis Seizures White Kids Use and Sell, Black Kids Go To Prison Time for the Government to Provide Safe Access to Medical Marijuana Annual Causes of Deaths in the US Pregnant Women: Drug War Casualties? Bush Offers Hope Clinton Interview Drug Czar Wanted Voting Rights Drug Courts A Real War in Colombia? What We Know About Ecstasy How We Judge a Fallen Hero Crooked Cops Findings of the British Police Foundation Just Say Not Guilty? The More We Escalate, The More Die Protecting Kids? What Should We Tell Our Kids? Happy Valentine's Day? McCaffrey Resign Drug Problem in Perspective Ending the Drug War Is Popular Time to admit the War on Drugs has failed Mandatory Sentencing is Bad Controlled Access to Heroin Do Drug Laws Focus on the Dangerous Drugs? Arizona Stops Jailing Drug Users We Are Deeply Troubled A Police View on the War on Drugs Dutch Drug Policy Even More Effective Treatment More Effective Than Enforcement It's as Simple as 123 Has the Drug Czar Bought the Media? Compromising Integrity and Prestige? Constitution a Victim of the Drug War? Marijuana Myths/Marijuana Facts Dutch Drug Policy Works Pinocchio McCaffrey