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To the Editor: Dr. Robert Swift (Sept. 15 issue)¹ gives a very supportive account of Grinspoon and Bakalar's book Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine.² Swift considers the book to present "cogent and convincing arguments for the legalization of marijuana."

As I pointed out in my review of the book in the Annals of Internal Medicine,³ Grinspoon and Bakalar have only assembled anecdotes that they use to justify the rescheduling of marijuana. Like the members of the pro-marijuana lobby during hearings held by the Drug Enforcement Agency to consider rescheduling marijuana, these authors believe that marijuana should be used to treat . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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