among Americans age 12 and over, about 35% had used marijuana sometime in their life, but only 8.9% had used it in the past year, and only 5.1% in the past month (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Drug Abuse Survey G.6). These findings obviously reflect that marijuana is not "highly addictive".
             The second trait of a schedule I drug is that it has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. This classification stands in sharp contradiction to the medical reality. During the 20th century, cannabis has been discovered to be an effective treatment for many ailments. For example, based on major research, Dr. Van Sim concluded that "marijuana... is probably the most potent anti-epileptic known to medicine today." More powerful than standard epileptic drugs, cannabis totally eliminated epileptic seizures in children not responding to legal drug therapies. But of course our benevolent Drug Czars remind us, healing the sick and aiding those who suffer "could send the wrong message to children." Let the children suffer and seizure in silence, just don't kill our prison proliferating pot prohibition program.
             Dr. Robert Hepler, neuro-opthalmologist with the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA, published a major study (Journal of the American Medical Association 217) in 1971 demonstrating that cannabis lowers intraocular pressure in the eyes. Glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, is a condition in which intraocular pressures build up causing optical damage. Cannabis has been proven to reduce these pressures far better than legal drugs, allowing glaucoma patients to keep their vision so long as they use cannabis regularly.
             Research at the Harvard Medical School (New England Journal of Medicine 795-7) demonstrated conclusively that cannabis is the most effective anti-emetic, or anti-nausea, agent available. It has been used in this regard to eliminate the violent nausea an...