Professor Bertha K.Madras has written an important and very informative article regarding Prop.19 in the latest issue of The Journal of Global Drug Policy and Practice.
Professor Madras concludes, The commercials on TV and editorial support of Prop 19 are misguided and misleading. Who are the real beneficiaries from normalization of marijuana use? Intelligent California voters will perform due diligence, examine the biomedical literature on marijuana (e.g NIDA: http://drugabuse.gov/infofacts/marijuana.html, and make evidence-based decisions. Californians have a unique opportunity to display to the nation and to bewildered citizens of other countries that they do not base important decisions on seductive propaganda.
Bertha K. Madras is a Professor of Psychobiology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and former Deputy Director for Demand Reduction in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. She is the author of over 130 scientific manuscripts, senior editor of a book: “The Cell Biology of Addiction”, and holds 19 patents with collaborators. She directed the creation of a Museum of Science, Boston exhibit on how drugs affect the brain and also developed a CD titled “Changing Your Mind: Drugs in the Brain”, which was licensed by the Disney Corp. in 2006.
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