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By Lester Grinspoon and James B. Bakalar. 184 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1993. $28.50. ISBN 0-300-05435-1.

On December 7, 1993, the Surgeon General of the United States, Joycelyn Elders, fired a shot heard around the world when she publicly stated that the legalization of drugs should be explored. Although Dr. Elders's statement gained considerable media exposure, legalization of certain drugs has many other distinguished advocates within the health care profession. One of these is Dr. Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Grinspoon has long felt that certain psychopharmacologic agents labeled illicit by American society should be legalized because of their therapeutic value.

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