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Lecturer in Public Policy Mark A. R. Kleiman,who worked with Jurado for several months in thelate 1980's, said his friend told him that he hadfought against the growing financial influence ofdrug cartels while setting up a stock exchange inColombia in the first half of the decade...
...Kleiman, who testified for Jurado before theLuxembourg court, said he thinks that what he sawof the prosecution's evidence was weak and thatthe judges were prejudiced against Jurado...
...Based on the process I saw in Luxembourg, thefact that he was convicted doesn't do very much tochange my belief that he's probably innocent,"said Kleiman, an expert in criminal justice at theKennedy School...
Furthermore, one of the DEA's tests of whether a drug should be available by prescription asks whether it has "currently accepted medical use." A current study by Kennedy School Lecturer Mark A.R. Kleiman showed that 54 percent of surveyed oncologists thought smoked marijuana should be available by prescription. Forty-four percent said they had already recommended pot to a patient...
According to Kennedy School lecturer Mark A.R. Kleiman, co-author with Doblin of the Kennedy School study, the government's foot-dragging will continue to be at the expense of the public interest. "All of these issues could've easily been resolved five years ago with a little experimentation. This is really a case where the war on drugs has cost us something," Kleiman says. "If I were the czar--not just the drug czar, but the czar--marijuana would be available tomorrow...