Reefer sanity
Subtitle: seven great myths about marijuana
By: by Kevin A. Sabet, Ph. D.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780825307997
Subjects: Drugs; Therapeutic use; Law and legislation; Drug legalization; Marijuana
Description: Argues against legalizing marijuana in the U.S. by evaluating the action's likely consequences and advocates instead for an emphasis on education about the drug's health dangers as well as on intervention and treatment.
Notes: "Newly revised and updated" -- from back cover

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Myth 1 : marijuana is harmless and nonaddictive; title: Myth 2 : smoked or eaten marijuana is medicine; title: Myth 3 : countless people are behind bars simply for smoking marijuana; title: Myth 4 : the legality of alcohol and tobacco strengthen the case for legal marijuana; title: Myth 5 : legal marijuana will solve government's budgetary problems; title: Myth 6 : Portugal and Holland provide successful models for legalization; title: Myth 7 : prevention, intervention and treatment are doomed to fail; title: so why try?