In a statement called Marihuana-1972, the AMA's Council on Mental Health and its Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence agreed with the national marijuana commission that the drug's dangers did not justify punishing users. Possession for personal use and transfers of insignificant amounts should not be criminal acts, they said, though public use should be prohibited.[1]
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References
- The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United StatesRichard J. Bonnie, Charles H. Whitebread II · The Lindesmith Center · 1999 · chapter 13, pp. 285–286 · ISBN 1891385062
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