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[1] Mike Tidwell, IN THE SHADOW OF THE WHITE HOUSE: DRUGS,
DEATH, AND REDEMPTION ON THE STREETS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL,
(1992), 40, ("What, you've never heard a gun go off at night
before? ... They're not shooting at you, man. Those dope
fiends shooting at each other. Stay out of their way and be
cool -- that's all you've got to do. You're in the ghetto
now, man. You've got to get used to it."); Life in a Shooting
Gallery. Mother, Girls Pray a lot in Deadly Neighborhood,
MIAMI HERALD, Feb. 9, 1997 at 1A, ("'Bullets fly through this
neighborhood every day,' says 13-year-old sister, Bertha ...The
area ...was named Germ City more than 20 years ago
because of crowding and unsanitary conditions.").
[2] The annual survey of student drug use sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is "Monitoring
the Future," conducted by the Institute for Social Research
of the University of Michigan. Current use of drugs is considered
use at least once in the past 30-days. The percentage of 8th
graders reporting use of marijuana in the past 30-days increased
from 3.2% in 1991 to 11.3% in 1996. The percentage of 10th
graders increased from 8.7% in 1991 to 20.4% in 1996, and
the percentage of 12th graders increased from 13.8% in 1991
to 21.9% in 1996. The percentage of 8th graders reporting
use of "any illicit drug" in the past 30-days increased from
5.7% in 1991 to 14.6% in 1996. The percentage of 10th graders
reporting use of "any illicit drug" in the past 30-days increased
from 11.6% in 1991 to 23.2% in 1996. The percentage of 12th
graders reporting use of "any illicit drug" in the past 30-days
increased from 16.4 % in 1991 to 24.6% in 1996. Alcohol consumption
by children in junior high and high school is illegal in all
states, and this is a part of most anti-drug education programs.
This fact may effect this answer even though the researchers
define illicit drug in terms of 10 classes of drugs, and self-reporting
of alcohol consumption by such students exceeds the use of
"any illicit drug" for all age groups and years. See infra
note 11 for a discussion of statistics relating to alcohol
consumption by minors.
[3] Daniel D. Polsby at, Ending the War on Drugs and Children,
31 VAL. U. L. REV. (1997).
[4] Dr. Trebach began his 1982 opus on heroin by quoting
Peter G. Bourne, MD, then advisor to presidential-hopeful,
Jimmy Carter:
What was once the "American Disease" has become a worldwide
affliction. Heroin addiction has become a major problem
in a dozen countries, with the number of addicts continuing
to increase by several thousand every month. Not only are
those who are becoming addicted for the most part the children
of the social and intellectual elite of these countries,
but the massive amounts of money now involved in trafficking
have corrupted many high level officials and undermined
already unstable economies.
ARNOLD S. TREBACH, THE HEROIN SOLUTION, 1 (1982). Trebach
then commented:
The years that have passed since that time [1976] have
shown, sadly enough, that Dr. Bourne's remarks understated
the dimensions of the problem. The number of new addicts
in the world every month is becoming enormous, unknown to
be sure, but certainly more than "several thousand." In
any event, there is no doubt that heroin addiction has become,
as Dr. Bourne said, a worldwide affliction.
Id.
This is hardly a lack of an appreciation of the problem of
heroin addiction. Trebach frequently has described the problems
of the abuse of drugs, noting, for example, the shock of parents
in discovering that their children are abusing drugs. ARNOLD
S. TREBACH, THE GREAT DRUG WAR 136 (1987). He notes that in
his concept of "drugpeace," the police would "continue ...
to apprehend the often despicable people involved in the illicit
drug trade." Id. at 355.
Dr. Nadelmann reflects that "all the benefits of legalization
would be for naught, however, if millions more Americans were
to become drug abusers." Ethan A. Nadelmann, The Case of
Legalization, THE PUB. INTEREST, Summer 1988, at 3, 24.
He observes that "China's experience with the British opium
pushers of the nineteenth century, when millions became addicted
to the drug, offers one worst-case scenario." Id. at
28. "There is no question that legalization is a risky policy,
one that may indeed lead to an increase in the number of people
who abuse drugs. But that risk is by no means a certainty."
Ethan A. Nadelmann, Drug Prohibition in the United States:
Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives, 245 SCI. 939, 946
(1989).
[5] Polsby, supra note 3, at 537.
[6] Id. at 538.
[7] Eric E. Sterling, The Sentencing Boomerang: Drug Prohibition
Politics and Reform, 40 VILL. L. REV. 383, 399-405 (1995).
[8] THOMAS SZASZ, OUR RIGHT TO DRUGS: THE CASE FOR A FREE
MARKET (1992).
[10] See Seth Schiesel, On the Web, This Bud's
for Your Children, NEW YORK TIMES, Mar 7, 1997, at
A1.
[11] Very high percentages of teenagers report that they
used alcohol (redefined as a "drink" instead of "more than
a few sips" in 1993) in the past 30-days, and these percentages
have increased over the past four years: for 8th graders from
24.3% in 1993 to 26.2% in 1996; for 10th graders from 38.2%
in 1993 to 40.4% in 1996; and for 12th graders from 48.6%
in 1993 to 50.8% in 1996. Asked whether they have been drunk
in the past 30-days, last year an astonishingly high percentage
of teenagers responded affirmatively: 9.6% of 8th graders,
21.3% of 10th graders, and 31.3% of 12th graders. University
of Michigan News and Information Services, The rise in
drug use among American teens continues in 1996, Press
Release, Dec 19, 1996 (11), Table 1. Asked if they engaged
in binge-drinking at any time in the past two weeks (defined
as consuming 5 or more drinks at one occasion), 15.65 of 8th
graders, 24.8% of 10th graders, and 30.2% of 12th graders
responded affirmatively last year. Id. Table 1a. Asked,
"How difficult do you think it would be for you to get alcohol
if you wanted some?" The percentages responding, "fairly easy"
or "very easy" to get were 75.3% for 8th graders, and 90.4%
for 10th graders. 12th graders weren't asked. Id. Table
10.
[12] Liquor law violations constituted only 15.5% of all
alcohol offense arrests in 1994. There was a very wide variation
in the rate among the states. BUREAU OF JUSTICE STAT., U.S.
DEP'T OF JUSTICE, 1995 SOURCEBOOK OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STATISTICS
431 tbl. 4.29 (1996).
[13] See Bruce Horovitz & Melanie Wells, Ads
for Adult Vices Big Hit With Teens, USA TODAY, Jan 31,
1997, at A1.
[14] "Just one year after California raised its cigarette
tax 25 cents in 1989 -- earmarking some of it for anti-smoking
campaigns -- per capita consumption declined 9%. Researchers
estimate that a 50-cent tax increase would result in 2.5 million
fewer smokers." INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POL'Y, BRANDEIS U., SUBSTANCE
ABUSE: THE NATION'S NUMBER ONE HEALTH PROBLEM, KEY INDICATORS
FOR POLICY 54 (1993).
[15] MARK MOORE, BUY AND BUST, (1977 ).
[16] For an extensive discussion of the factors comprising
heroin availability, see Charles Faupel, SHOOTING DOPE (1991).
[17] National Transportation Safety Board, Accidents,
Fatalities, and Rates, 1982 through 1996, U.S. General Aviation,
(visited Feb. 21, 1997) <http://www.ntsb.gov/Aviation/Stats.htm>
.
[18] University of Michigan News and Info. Servs., supra
note 2, at 6.
[19] Polsby supra note 3, at 538.
[20] See Native American Church, 21 CFR § 1307.31
(1995).
[21] J.H. Brown et al., Students and Substances: Social
Power in Drug Education. 19 EDUC. EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS
65, 79-80 (1997). See also Marianne D'Emidio-Caston
& Joel H. Brown, The Other Side of the Story: Student
Narratives on the California Drug, Alcohol, Tobacco Education
Program, (unpublished manuscript, on file with author).
[22] See Brown et al., supra note 21, at 79.
[23] MARK HELPRIN, MEMOIR FROM ANTPROOF CASE 273 (1996).
[24] Polsby, supra note 3, at 539.
[25] See Thomas B. Roberts, Academic and Religious
Freedom in the Study of the Mind, in ENTHEOGENS AND THE
FUTURE OF RELIGION 137, 141 (Robert Forte, ed., 1997) at 141,
and Eric E. Sterling, The Bill of Rights: A Casualty of
the War on Drugs, VITAL SPEECHES OF THE DAY (52:2), Nov
1, 1990 at 45-46.
[26] Eric E. Sterling, Law Enforcement Against Entheogens:
Is it Religious Persecution?, in ENTHEOGENS AND THE FUTURE
OF RELIGION (Robert Forte, ed.) (1997) at 165-170.
[27] Jay Stevens, STORMING HEAVEN: LSD AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
276 (1987).
[28] 5 MAPS BULL., Summer 1994, at 43 (reporting a telephone
conversation between Dr. Kary Mullis & Rick Doblin in
the Spring of 1994).
[29] See Tidwell, supra note 1,
at 67-71.
[30] See Dorothy K. Hatsukami and Marian W. Fischman,
Crack Cocaine and Cocaine Hydrochloride: Are the Differences
Myth or Reality, 276 JAMA 1580, 1583 (1996).
[31] Paul J. Goldstein, et al., Crack and homicide in
New York City, 1988: A Conceptually Based Event Analysis,
16 Contemp. Drug Probs. 651, 652-53 (1989); Paul J. Goldstein,
et al., Volume of Cocaine Use and Violence: A Comparison
Between Men and Women, 21 J. Drug Issues 345-67 (1991).
[32] See Miller v. California , 413 U.S. 15, 34-36 (1973);
Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 484-85 (1957).
[33] A "mission" is a "trip out of the crackhouse to obtain
crack; a visual mission is to look for possible sale locations
or for a person from whom crack-cocaine or freebase can be
acquired (term from Star Trek)," Terry Williams, CRACKHOUSE:
NOTES FROM THE END OF THE LINE 150 (1992).
[34] Polsby, supra note 3, at 540-41 (emphasis added).
[35] 18 U.S.C. § 1385 (1994).
[36] Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, Pub. L. No. 99-570, 100
Stat. 3207 (1987).
[37] Five year mandatory minimum. Anti-Drug Abuse Act of
1986 §1002, 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B) (1994).
[38] Ten year mandatory minimum. 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A).
[39] Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Pub.
L. No. 100-690, §6470, 102 Stat. 4377 (codified at 21
U.S.C. §§ 846, 963 (1994)).
[40] See Pub. L. No. 100-690, § 6454, 102
Stat. 4372 (1986) (directing the Sentencing Commission to
set certain penalties). See also Juvenile Drug Trafficking
Act of 1986, Pub. L. No. 99-570, § 1102, 100 Stat.
320 (codified as amended at 21 U.S.C. § 861 (1994)).
[41] Alfred Blumenstein, Youth Violence, Guns, and the Illicit-Drug
Industry, 86 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 10 (1995); Eric
E. Sterling, Anti-Crime Strategies for the 1990s: A Report
on the Campaign for An Effective Crime Policy Conference,
NEWSBRIEFS, Dec. 1994 at 10.
[42] Mark A. R. Kleiman, Reducing the Prevalence of Cocaine
and Heroin Dealing Among Adolescents, 31 VAL. U. L. REV.
551 (1997).
[43] PHILIPPE BOURGOIS, IN SEARCH OF RESPECT: SELLING CRACK
IN EL BARRIO, (1996).
[44] Id. at 142-43.
[45] Id. at 265-266.
[46] Id. at 263.
[47] Id.
[48] Id. at 335.
[49] Kleiman, supra note 41, at
558.
[50] See Joel H. Brown & Marianne D'Emidio Caston, On
Becoming "At Risk" Through Drug Education: How Symbolic Policies
and Their Practices Affect Students, 19 Evaluation Rev. 451
(1995). The authors posit:
[B]y implementing mass-application services, [school} district
personnel can say they have complied with DATE [Drug, Alcohol,
and Tobacco Education] service delivery requirements. This
study supports other recent evidence showing that formative
policy language provides the symbolic rationale for mass
delivery of ineffective services like those found in DATE...it
is difficult to escape the conclusion that use of the risk-based
model of substance use and abuse does not appear to help
these students [who individually need help].
[51] Bourgeois makes this point clear:
Street dealers tend to brag to outsiders and to themselves
about how much money they make each night. In fact their
income is almost never as consistently high as they report
it to be. Most street dealers, like Primo, are paid on a
piece-rate commission basis. In other words, their take-home
pay is a function of how much they sell. When converted
into an hourly wage, this is often a relatively paltry sum.
According to my calculations, Ray's workers, for example,
averaged slightly less than double the minimum wage --
between seven and eight dollars an hour . . . It took me
several years to realize how inconsistent and meager crack
income can be.
BOURGOIS, supra note 43 at 91-93. The author reported
that Primo earned $40 for a long night's work. Id.
[52] Bourgois also speaks to this point:
. . . [w]orking conditions are also often inferior to those
found in the legal economy. Aside from the obvious dangers
of being shot, or of going to prison, the physical work
space of most crackhouses is usually unpleasant. The infrastructure
of the Game Room [the principal crackhouse in which Bourgois
did his research], for example, was much worse than that
of any legal retail outfits in East Harlem: There was no
bathroom, no running water, no telephone, no heat in the
winter and no air-conditioning in the summer . . . . Indeed,
the only furnishings besides the video games were a few
grimy milk crates and bent aluminum stools. Worse yet, a
smell of urine and vomit usually permeated the locale.
Id. at 93- 94
[53] Girl's Expulsion for Legal Drug. Is Reduced,
WASH. POST, Oct. 8, 1996, at A4.
[54] James Hannah, School Cuts Term of Suspension on Same
Day It Is Named in Bias Suit, WASH. POST, Oct. 9, 1996,
at A3. Teen Barred for Legal Pills, WASH. POST, October
3, 1996, at A18. At about the same time, another case near
Houston, Texas involved the suspension of a junior high school
honor student, Brooke Olson, for inadvertently carrying the
over-the-counter pain medication, Advil, in her backpack.
The school principal, Steve Busch said that Advil was
"just the tip of a potentially lethal drug iceberg." Student
Suspended for Carrying Advil; Girl Says Punishment 'Too Severe';
Texas School Defends Policy, WASH. POST, October 10, 1996,
at A13.
[55] Steve Lopez, As Bullets Whiz By, A Priest Stands
Up In a Parish No Stranger to Violence, PHIL. INQUIRER,
Nov. 17, 1996, at A3, ("On Thursday, the bullets flew once,
then stopped, then flew again. You duck, you say thanks, and
you go about your day...Without better schools and more jobs,
the neighborhoods, and the cities, are doomed."); Heidi Van
Zant, Gunshot Detectors May Stay, SAN JOSE MERCURY
NEWS, Dec. 18, 1996 at 1B ("...[T]here is anecdotal evidence
that the number of random gun firings has dropped since the
sensors were installed.").
[56] See BOURGOIS, supra note 43, at 57-74;
Larry Bivins, 'The Killing and Stuff Can Be Right Beside
You,' DET.FREE PRESS, Dec. 27, 1991, at 6G ("The neighborhood
[in Washington, D.C.] of renovated row houses and restored
mansions...has seen 15 homicides since January. [Residents
are frustrated at the failure of the police] to take back
their middle-class neighborhood from the drug dealers who
hawk their goods openly.")
[57] KATHLEEN O'LEARY MORGAN ETAL., CRIME IN METROPOLITAN
AMERICA, 60tbl. 12 (1995).
[58] Id. The murder rate increased by more than 100%
in Oklahoma City, OK; Eugene-Springfield, OR; Spokane, WA;
Lafayette, IN; Boise, ID. It increased by more than 50% in
Trenton, NJ; Tucson, AZ; Green Bay, WI; Minneapolis-St. Paul,
MN. It increased by more than 15% in Boulder-Longmont, CO;
Naples, FL; Charlottesville, VA; Phoenix-Mesa, AZ; Honolulu,
HI; Binghamton, NY; Madison, WI; Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT;
Lansing-East Lansing, MI. In Baltimore, MD, the murder rate
increased by 6.7%. Id. at 60.
[59] WILLIAM ADLER, LAND OF OPPORTUNITY:
ONE FAMILY'S QUEST FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THE AGE OF CRACK,
318 (1995) . The author stated:
The final secret of their success [the Chambers brothers
crack cocaine organization] was discipline ... it was
necessary to come up with rules...Well, the rules are empty
unless there is a way to enforce those rules ... The
Chambers brothers had what is called a wrecking crew or
beat-up crew. The purpose ... was to beat up or wreck
people who worked for the Chambers or people who competed
with the Chambers.") Id. at 318-319.
[60] OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY, EXECUTIVE OFFICE
OF THE PRESIDENT, WHAT AMERICA'S USERS SPEND ON ILLEGAL DRUGS,
1988-1993, AT 3 (1995) ("In 1993, Americans spent $49 billion
on these drugs; $31 billion on cocaine, $7 billion on heroin,
$9 billion on marijuana, and $2 billion on other illegal drugs
and legal drugs used illicitly ... Between 1988 and 1993,
the expenditures on cocaine and heroin appear to have fallen.").
[61] U.S. Dep't of Commerce, INFORMATION PLEASE ALMANAC 59
(1997).
[62] Id.at 60.
[63] Office of National Drug Control Policy, supra note 59,
at 20.
[64] Id. at 18.
[65] Id. at A-24; WILLIAMS, supra note 33,
at 63-70.
[66] Goldstein, supra note 31, at 662. "The majority (n=162)
of the drug- related homicides [n=218], about 74%, were classified
as "systemic." Id.
[67] . Drug dealers in Baltimore are accepting payment in
ground beef, steaks or other meats in exchange for drugs.
Joe Mathews, "Need a fix? Bring some hamburger," BALT.
SUN, Sept 22, 1996 at 10A.
[68] Adler, supra note 58 at 282. (""Larry cared for
neither the brazen theft nor the showy way Poole spent the
money. Larry: 'My beeper was steady jumpin' three zeroes' --
the code for 'smoking' Poole. 'Guys were begging me:
'Lemme smoke him.'")
[69] . Lester Grinspoon & James B.
Bakalar, Marihuana As Medicine: A Plea for Reconsideration,
273 JAMA 1875 (1995).
[70] 21 U.S.C. § 811(a) (1995).
[71] NORML v. Ingersoll, 497 F.2d 654, 660-61 (D.C. Cir.
1974).
[72] 40 Fed. Reg. 44, 164, 44,167-68 (1975).
[73] NORML v. DEA, 559 F.2d 735, 747-48 (D.C. Cir. 1977);
21 U.S.C. § 811 (a)-(c) (1995).
[74] 44 Fed. Reg. at 36,127 (1979).
[75] 44 Fed. Reg. 36,123 (1979).
[76]76.NORML v. DEA, 559 F.2d 735 n.65 (D.C.Cir. 1977).
[77] 47 Fed. Reg. 10,080 (1982).
[78] NORML v. DEA, 559 F.2d 735, 750 n.65 (D.C. Cir. 1977).
[79] NORML v. DEA, No. 79-1660 (D.C. Cir.
1982).
[80] 51 Fed. Reg. 22,946 (1986).
[81] IN THE MATTER OF MARIJUANA RESCHEDULING PETITION,
NO. 86-22, IN 2 MARIJUANA, MEDICINE & THE LAW, 391 (R.C.
Randall ed., 1989) (publishing a transcript of the hearing
of June 10, 1988) [hereinafter Marijuana Rescheduling Petition].
[82] Id.
[83] Id. at 427 (publishing the Opinion & Recommended
Ruling, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Decision
of Administrative Law Judge).
[84] Id. at 430.
[85] Irvin Rosenfeld actually suffers from Pseudo Pseudo
Hypoparathyroidism (yes, two pseudos). I MARIJUANA,
MEDICINE & THE LAW 261 (1988).
[86] Id. at 438.
[87] Id. at 444.
[88] Id. at 445.
[89] Robert P. McNeill, N.M. Health &
Env't Dep't, The Lynn Pierson Therapeutic Research Program:
A Report on Progress to Date (1983); N.M. Health & Env't
Dep't, The Lynn Pierson Therapeutic Research Program: Annual
Report to the Legislature (1984).
[90] Annual Reports of the Research Advisory Panel Prepared
for the Governor and Legislature of California, (1980-1986).
[91] Michael H. Kutner, Emory U. Evaluation of the Use of
Both Marijuana and THC in Cancer Patients for the Relief of
Nausea and Vomiting Associated with Cancer Chemotherapy After
Failure of Conventional Anti-Emetic Therapy: Efficacy and
Toxicity, (1983).
[92] State of Tenn., Evaluation of Marijuana and Tetrahydrocannabinol
in Treatment of Nausea and/or Vomiting Associated with Cancer
Therapy Unresponsive to Conventional Anti-Emetic Therapy:
Efficacy and Toxicity (1983).
[93] John R. F. Ingall, Mich. Dep't of Pub. Health, Evaluation
of Marihuana as an Anti-Emetic in Patients Being Treated with
Cancer Chemotherapy, Trial A, (1982).
[94] Vincent Vinciguerra, et al. Inhalation marijuana
as an Anti-Emetic for Cancer Chemotherapy, N.Y. ST. J.
OF MED., Oct. 1988, at 525.
[95] Jenks v. State of Florida, 582 So. 2d 676 (Fla. Dist
Ct. App. 1991).
[96] Michael Isikoff, HHS to Phase Out Marijuana Program;
Officials Fear Sending 'Bad Signal' by Giving Drug to Seriously
Ill, WASH. POST, Jun 22, 1991, at A14; Grinspoon &
Bakalar, supra note 68, at 1876.
[97] The legislature approved S.B. 1364 on August 18, 1994.
Letter from Dale Gieringer, NORML, to Author 1 (Mar.25, 1997)
(on file with the Valparaiso University Law Review). Governor
Wilson vetoed the bill on September 30, 1994. Id. The
next year, the legislature approved A.B. 1529 on September
12, 1995. Id. Governor Wilson vetoed that bill on October
15, 1995. Id.
[98] Sabin Russell, U.S. Drug Czar Visits Haight, Denounces
Medical Uses of Pot, SF CHRON., Aug 16, 1996, at A8; Drug
Chief Says No to Pot Plan, WASH POST, Sept. 11, 1996,
at A2.
[99] G.B. TRUDEAU, DOONESBURY, Wash. Post,
Sept. 30-Oct. 5 & Oct. 21- 26, 1996, at Style Section;
Greg Lucas, Lungren Isn't Laughing, SF CHRON., Oct.
2, 1996 at A1; Jennifer Warren, "Lungren Fumes Over Satire
in 'Doonesbury,'" LA TIMES, Oct. 2, 1996, at A3; Tim Golden,
"California Law Chief Takes Drug Fight to "Doonesbury,'"
N.Y. TIMES, Oct. 3, 1996) at A14.
[100] Cal. Secretary of State, Cal. Voter Info., Proposition
215. (Ge. Election, 1996) [hereinafter Proposition 215]. Section
1 of the Act provides, inter alia:
(b) (1)(A) To ensure that seriously ill Californians have
the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes
where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been
recommended by a physician who has determined that the person's
health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment
of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma,
arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana
provides relief.
(B) To ensure that patients and their primary caregivers
who obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes upon the
recommendation of a physician are not subject to criminal
prosecution or sanction.
(C) To encourage the federal and state governments to implement
a plan to provide for the safe and affordable distribution
of marijuana to all patients in medical need of marijuana.
(2) Nothing in this act shall be constructed to supersede
legislation prohibiting persons from engaging in conduct that
endangers others, nor to condone the diversion of marijuana
for nonmedical purposes.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no physician
in this state shall be punished, or denied any right or privilege,
for having recommended marijuana to a patient for medical
purposes.
(d) Section 11357, relating to the possession of marijuana,
and Section 11358, relating to the cultivation of marijuana,
shall not apply to a patient, or to a patient's primary caregiver,
who possesses or cultivates marijuana for the personal medical
purposes of the patient upon the written or oral recommendation
or approval of a physician.
(e) For the purposes of this section, "primary caregiver"
means the individual designated by the person exempted under
this act who has consistently assumed responsibility for the
housing, health, or safety of that person.
[101] Medical Marijuana Measures Pass November 5th Ballots
in California and Arizona, Legal Distribution Systems Debated,
NEWSBRIEFS, Dec. 1996, at 3.
[102] Ariz. Secretary of State, Ariz. Voter Info., Proposition
200 (Gen. Election 1996) [hereinafter Proposition 215]
[103] Id. § 10.
[104] Id. §§ 8, 9.
[105] Id. § 4.
[106] Id. § 5.
[107] Senate Tackles State Propositions Allowing Use of
Illegal Drugs, N.Y. TIMES, December 3, 1996, at A13;
Glen Martin, Prop. 215 Attacked in U.S. Senate, Stricter
Enforcement of Federal Pot Laws Urged, S.F. CHRON., December
3, 1996, at 1.
[108] General Barry R. McCaffrey, Director, ONDCP, Statement
Submitted for Record to Senate Committee on the Judiciary
(Dec. 2, 1996) (transcript on file with the Valparaiso
University Law Review) at a hearing on A PRESCRIPTION
FOR ADDICTION? ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA MEDICAL DRUG USE INITIATIVES,
United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, (Dec 2,
1996).
[110] General Barry McCaffrey, Director ONDCP et al., Webwire
Holds News Conference to Discuss the Administration's Response
to State Initiatives for Legalizing the Medical Use of Marijuana
5 (Dec. 30, 1996) (transcript on file with the Valparaiso
University Law Review).
[111] University of Michigan News and Info. Servs., supra
note 2, at tbl. 1.
[112] Id.
[113] Id.
[114] Id.
[115] Id.
[116] Id.
[117] Id.
[118] Id.
[120] E.g., Christopher Wren, Adolescent Drug Use
Continues to Rise, N.Y. TIMES, Dec. 20 1996, at B12;
Brad Hahn, U.S. study: Teens More Tolerant of Marijuana,
CHI. TRIBUNE, Dec. 20, 1996, §1, at 18.
[121] Congressional Republican Drug Policy Task Force
Formed; Senate Committee Holds Hearings on Drug Policy, NEWSBRIEFS,
Feb. 1996, at 4 (Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole, "Our
children are using more dope, more cocaine, and more heroin
[than] at any time in recent memory," because of a lack of
leadership from the White House.); William H. Zeliff, Jr.,
Missing Leader in the Drug War, WASH POST, Dec 15,
1995, at A25 (Representative Zeliff (R-NH) was chairman of
the House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on
National Security, International Affairs and Criminal Justice).
[122] Richard Keil, Dole Urges Guard Role in Halting Narcotics,
STAR LEDGER (NEWARK, N.J.), Sept. 2, 1996 at 4; Peter Slevin,
Military Antidrug Role Questioned, PHILA. INQUIRER,
Aug. 31, 1996 at A3 (President Clinton had "surrendered" in
the war against drugs, said Robert Dole, Republican candidate
for President.); Bradley Graham, Military Role in Drug
War Debated, WASH POST, Aug 30, 1996, at A6
[123] Jack Nelson, Teenagers, Parents Tolerate Illicit
Drug Use, Poll Finds, LA TIMES, Sept. 10, 1996, at A7
("'Today, we got yet another report from the field showing
the terrible casualty count from Bill Clinton's failure to
wage a real war on drugs,' Dole's campaign said in a statement.").
[124] In the CASA survey cited infra note --
, parents were asked ...
[125] House Crime Subcommittee Holds Hearings on Marijuana
Use, NEWSBRIEFS, Apr. 1996, at 16,( reporting on a hearing
held on March 6, 1996).
[126] Baby Boomers Blamed, Parents 'Resigned' to Teens
Drug Use, DES MOINES REG., Sept. 10, 1996, at 1A; Roberto
Suro, Boomers Expect Teen Drug Use, Survey Finds, WASH
POST, Sept. 10, 1996, at A3; Jack Nelson, Teenagers, Parents
Tolerate Illicit Drug Use, Poll Finds, LA TIMES, Sept.
10, 1996, at A1; See ALSO CASA, supra note 123,
at 76. The question, "If you had to guess, do you think your
teenager will ever try use [sic] illegal drugs?" was
the last question of a 67 question poll (emphasis added).
In response, 46% responded yes, 50% responded no. Id. Although
1166 parents were questioned in the survey, but the report
does not indicate how many parents answered all questions.
Id. Teenagers of these parents were also questioned.
The last question asked of them was, "And, for my final question,
how likely do you think it is that at some point in the future
you will try an illegal drug: is it very likely, somewhat
likely, not very likely, or will it absolutely never happen?"
10%, very likely. 12%, somewhat likely. 27% not very likely,
51% never happen. Id. Therefore, the most "hyped" conclusion
of the "study" was the least dependable, and one for which
there was significant disagreement between children and their
parents.
[127] Susan T. Ennett et al., How Effective Is Drug Abuse
Resistance Education? A Meta-Analysis of Project DARE Outcome
Evaluations, 84 AM.J. OF PUB. HEALTH 1394 (1994).
[128] . MATHEA FALCO, THE MAKING OF A DRUG-FREE AMERICA:
PROGRAMS THAT WORK, 41-44 (1992).
[129] See Brown, et al., supra
note 21.
[130] Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Servs.,
Statement at Press Conference to Release Monitoring the Future
Survey (Dec. 19, 1996) (transcript on file with the Valparaiso
Unversity Law Review). Secretary Shalala stated:
The holiday season is always a time for cherishing children.
But it is also a time to save them. That's why now ...we
must give our children clear and consistent messages to
stay away from drugs, alcohol and tobacco. ... But
we have to do much more because our nation cannot afford
to go down the dangerous road to drug legalization as two
states have done. That means we must oppose the dangerous
and misguided effort to legalize marijuana and other drugs.
We must send clear and consistent messages to young people
that marijuana is dangerous, illegal and wrong."
Id. at 21-2.
[131] General Barry McCaffrey, supra note 107, at
2 ("Coming at a time that marijuana use has doubled among
our youth, these initiatives [Propositions 200 and 215] threaten
to undermine our efforts to prevent drug use by our children.
Labeling marijuana as 'medicine' sends the wrong message to
children that it is a safe substance." )
[132] See text accompanying supra notes 110-29.
[133] Marijuana Pol'y Project, MARIJUANA POLICY REP. 6-7
(May-June 1996). By 1996, the laws of five states had expired,
and nine states repealed their laws. Id.
[134] See supra notes 88-93.
[135] . Marijuana Rescheduling Petition, supra
note 80, at 248.
[136] See text accompanying supra notes 79-80.
[137] See text accompanying supra notes 82-87.
[138] University of Michigan News & Info. Servs.,
supra note 2, at 5-6. ("This research team has shown that,
in general, when young people come to see a drug as more dangerous,
or more disapproved by their peers, they are less likely to
use it.").
[140] Proposition 215, supra note 99, § 1(d) (codified
at Cal. Health & Safety Code § 11362.5(d) (West
1996).
[141] Emelyn Cruz Lat, Cops Give Back AIDS Patient's Pot
Plants, In 1st- Ever Case: Mountain View Police Relent Because
of Medical Need, S.F. EXAMINER, Mar. 2, 1997, at A1.
[142] Proposition 200, supra note 101, § 7 (codified
at Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-3412.01.A (1996).
[143] Hearings on "A Prescription for Addiction?" 104th Congress.
(statement of Thomas Constantine, Administrator, DEA).
"[H]ow are prison officials in Arizona expected to maintain
order and discipline with the inmates high on heroin, marijuana,
LSD or other Schedule I drugs?" Id.
[144] Misuse of Drugs Act, 1971, ch. 38 § 10 (Eng.).
[145] Narcotics Control Act, R.S.C. 1985, ch. N-1, § 65(7),
(1985) (Can.).
[146] H.R. 5290, 98th Cong., 130 CONG. REC H89760 (1984).
[147] See LESTER GRINSPOON AND JAMES B. BAKALAR, Therapeutic
Uses in PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS RECONSIDERED 192-237 (1979). See
also MARTIN A. LEE & BRUCE SHLAIN, ACID DREAMS: THE COMPLETE
SOCIAL HISTORY OF LSD (1985); STANISLAV GROF, MD, LSD PSYCHOTHERAPY
(1994).
[148] Pub. L. No. 76-780 (1938).
[149] Administration Response to Arizona
Proposition 200 and California Proposition 215, 62 FED REG
6164-66 (1997).
[150] Dangerous Drug Diversion Control Act of 1984, Pub.L.No.
98-473, §511, 98 Stat. 2073 (1984) (codified as amended
at 21 U.S.C. § 824(a)(4) (1994)).
[151] H.R. REP. NO. 98-835, pt. 1, at 7 (1984)., Report from
the Committee on the Judiciary to accompany H.R. 5656, the
"Dangerous Drug Diversion Control Act of 1984" at 7, (June
12, 1984).
[152] Id. at 8.
[153] Id.
[154] Id. at 9.
[155] Id. at 10.
[156] 21 U.S.C. 824(a)(4) (1995).
[157] Administrative Response to Arizona Proposition 200
and California and Proposition 215, 62 FED REG 6164, 6164
(1997).
[158] Id.
[160] Id. (emphasis added).
[161] Id.
[162] Id.
[163] Administrative Response to Arizona Proposition 200
and California Proposition 215, 62 Fed. Reg. 6164, 6165 (1997)
(emphasis added).
[164] Id. at 6166.
[165] Id. (emphasis added).
[166] Conant v. McCaffrey, No. C 97-0139 FMS
(N.D. Cal. Jan 13, 1997).
[167] Harriett Chang, State Doctors Sue Over Medical Pot
Rules, S.F. Chronicle., Jan. 15, 1997, at A20; Tim Golden,
Marijuana Advocates File Suit to Stop U.S. Sanctions,
N.Y. Times, Jan. 15, 1997, at A10; Jenifer Warren, Doctors
Sue Over Marijuana, L.A. Times, Ja. 15, 1997, at B1.
[168] Pearson v. McCaffrey, No. 97CV462 (D.D.C. Mar. 6, 1997).
[169] 21 U.S.C. § 843(d) (1994).
[170] S.40 , 105th Cong. (1997).
[171] See 21 U.S.C. § 823(f), (1994).
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