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An excerpt from the Introduction of Cannabinomics

It has been nearly four decades since President Richard Nixon declared illegal drugs “public enemy number one in the United States” and launched the modern day drug war.1 Drug policy reformers—an articulate minority within the legal and health professions, law enforcement, government, science, academics and the arts—have argued for years that the war on drugs does more harm than good.2 More recently, explosive escalation of drug cartel violence in Mexico has generated wider recognition of the need for drug policy reform.3 The issue has not been prominent in public conversation on healthcare or the economy or foreign policy even though it lingers at the horizons of all three.

Economic crisis, if not drug war bloodshed, brings the topic of drug policy closer to center stage in American awareness: in a Presidential town hall meeting in late March of 2009, the question of whether legalization of marijuana might provide a valuable stimulus for economic growth ranked highly—in fact, highest by some reports—in frequency among questions submitted online.4 In California, the Governor has acknowledged that it is time to talk about taking a critical look at existing marijuana policies in light of experiences in other countries and especially in light of current economic realities.

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