Drug Policy

because it's useful to see the propaganda the prohibitionists are touting.

This article pretends to present a balanced picture, but all the prohibitionists have to offer are the equivalent of Reagan's monkey study.

I'm sure you remember that one - when a scientist refused to release his research after claiming cannabis caused brain damage. Reagan touted that study as an excuse for the War on Marijuana.

Finally, after years of legal requests, the study was released and what the scientist had done was suffocate the monkey - the damage was from CO2, not cannabis.

This is the sort of research that the prohibitionists use until others have the opportunity to examine their claims.