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"In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

Helen Keller

"Laws do not persuade just because they threaten."

Seneca, AD 65

Major Studies and Reports

UK

The Advisory Council on the Mis-use of Drugs, 2006
Further consideration of the classification of cannabis under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
Association of Chief Police Officers, 2002
Statement On Enforcement Strategy
Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2002
Enforcing Reclassification
Home Affairs Select Committee, 2002
The Government's Drugs Policy: Is It Working?
Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2002
The policing of cannabis as a Class B drug
The Runciman Report, 1999
Drugs and the Law
House of Lords, 1998
Report on Medical Cannabis
The Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence, 1968
The Wootton Report
The Indian Hemp Drugs Commissionm 1894
Centenial Thoughts

USA

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1994
A Wiser Course: Ending Drug Prohibition
National Research Council of the National Academy of Science, 1982
DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Ruling on medical marijuana
- An Analysis of Marijuana Policy
The Drug Abuse Council, 1980
The Facts About Drug Abuse
The Shaffer Commission, 1973
Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding
The National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, 1972
Drug Use In America: Problem in Perspective
The Consumers Union Report, 1972
Licit and Illicit Drugs
Inquiry into the Legal History of American Marihuana Prohibition, 1970
The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge
The La Guardia Committee Report, 1944
The Marihuana Problem in the City of New York

Worldwide

Canada: Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, 2002
Discussion Paper on Cannabis
- Excerpts
Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland
Cannabis 2002 Report
Jamacia, 2001
A Report of the National Commission on Ganja
Australian Government, 1994
Legislative options for cannabis use in Australia
Cannabis Control Policy, 1979
A Discussion Paper
The Canadian Government Commission of Inquiry, 1972
The Non-Medical Use of Drugs (cannabis report)
Panama Canal Zone, 1933
Marijuana Smoking in Panama