Therapeutic Uses of Cannabis; Marijuana Myths and Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence

Therapeutic Uses of Cannabis

British Medical Association Harwood Academic Publishers, £11.99, pp 142 ISBN 90 5702 318 0

Marijuana Myths and Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence

Lynn Zimmer, John P Morgan

The Lindesmith Center, $12.95, pp 241

ISBN 0 9641568 4 9

When it comes to cannabis, beliefs and principles strongly shape the position that people take. To legalise, to decriminalise, or to punish further in the face of a growing population of young cannabis consumers is the question of the day. These two books are likely to make a substantial contribution to this debate.

The BMA publication is an historic document that grew out of a resolution from the BMA annual representative meeting in 1997 “that certain additional …