Excerpt from Prescription for Addiction? The Arizona and California Medical Drug Use Initiatives: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session Today, we will hear from several witnesses on a topic of consider able public importance - the newly adopted ballot initiatives that modify California and Arizona law by decriminalizing drug use in some circumstances. This subject should be of concern to everyone who is interested in preventing the use and abuse of controlled substances, such as marijuana. The committee in holding this hearing is not attempting to deny the use of proven, effective medication. My heart goes out to every person who is afflicted by any disease and to the families involved. But it is a mistake, in my opinion, to abandon our principles, the law, and modern science in the name of compassion. After more than two decades, pot activists won public sanction for widespread marijuana use on the basis of the drug's supposed medicinal qualities. Today, we will hear how the philanthropists of the drug legalization movement pumped millions of dollars in out of-state soft money into stealth campaigns designed to conceal their real objective - the legalization of drugs. We will view some of their deceptive advertisements and we will learn the true threat these soft-headed campaigns pose to America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.