... kill them (like alcohol), and it does not wear them out as other drugs may. There is no evidence that marijuana use is a cause of brain damage. Studies by Dr. Robert Heath claimed the contrary in experiments on monkeys, but Heath's work has been sharply criticized by the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences on three primary counts ... the cost of investigating, arresting, and prosecuting the hundreds of thousands of marijuana users arrested every year (Grinspoon,1994). Despite the fact that drug use is more or less consistent across racial lines, many punitive drug...

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