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Like a lot of people who support marijuana use, psychiatrist Tod Mikuriya had detractors. (His work was called "the Cheech and Chong show" by Bill Clinton's drug czar, General Barry McCaffrey.) The longtime Republican believed in the therapeutic effects of the drug on more than 200 ailments and in 1996 saw a bill he crafted, Proposition 215, pass in California, legalizing the use of pot for the seriously ill. The "grandfather" of the medicinal-marijuana movement said his fight to "restore cannabis" stemmed from a backlash against its medical use following the late-'30s film Reefer Madness...
...Mikuriya was especially critical of the involvement of the federal government in poisoning marijuana--and American citizens--with the herbicide paraquat. Instead he recommended limiting the government to regulating "the purity and freedom from contaminants, which is an appropriate function of government...
Federal law currently recognizes no valid medical uses for cannabis, placing it in a class with toxic addictive narcotics such as heroin. In general the speakers at the Marijuana and Health Symposium recommended the revision of public policy to bring it into line with medical understanding. Dr. Tod Mikuriya, formerly in charge of cannabis research for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), asserted that we have--"not a drug problem--we're dealing with a problem based upon ignorance, denial, hypocrisy, and special-interest greed." He recommended comprehensive drug law reform, including the "repeal of all exemptions from product...
First, you seen unsportsmanlike and stingy in your appraisal of credentials Dr Mikuriya who spoke about "Cannabis and the politics of Health Care is eminently qualified speak on this subject. He has served as director of cannabis research for the National Institute of Mental Health, and as a consultant to the treatment center at the New Jersey: Neuropsychratric Institute His anthology of key paper in the field of Western cannabis research--Marijuana Medical Papers (1839-1972 is an invaluable resource lot scholars and will undoubtedly remains so of many years...
However, the time for a choice is already past, argues a growing band of responsible advocates of legalization, among them Psychiatrist Mikuriya and Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan. They do not argue that marijuana is harmless, and they are seriously concerned that the open sale of pot would almost certainly increase its use and abuse, producing greater numbers of "pot lushes" and even pot skid rows. They defend ultimate legalization only because they believe that its probable costs to society are outweighed by the disadvantages of continued prohibition. They point out that as long as marijuana is forbidden it will...