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Cover Letter Required
by the Code of Federal Regulations
Exhibit A: The proposed rules for repeal,
in the form proposed by the petitioner:
Exhibit B: A statement
of the grounds which the petitioner relies for the repeal
of the rules.
Exhibit C: Summary
of the Evidence.
1. Marijuana's Actual or Relative Potential For Abuse
a) Introduction
and Early Definition of Abuse Potential
b) The Merck Manual
on the Abuse Potential of Marijuana
c) Defining Drug
Addiction and Drug Abuse
d) Contemporary
Evaluation of Dependence Liability
e) Abuse Potential
of Marijuana
f) Validity of
Addiction Models
g) Introduction
to Remaining Sections of the Petition
h) Critique of
DEA Interpretation of the CSA
Notes
2. Scientific Evidence of Marijuana's Pharmacological
Effect, If Known
a) Introduction:
DEA's List of Pharmacological Ignorance
b) The Effects
of Marijuana Smoke
c) Cannabinoid
Pharmacology
d) Dose and Absorption
e) Structure Activity
Relationship and Toxicity
Notes
3. The State of Current Scientific Knowledge Regarding
Marijuana
a) Introduction:
a Scientific Revolution
b) Wrong Track - The Early Hypotheses
c) Technical Flaws
d) Discovery of the Cannabinoid
Receptor System
e) Tolerance
f) Amotivational
Syndrome
g) Structure Activity
Relationship and the Receptor System
h) The Immune
System and Other Receptor System Aspects
i) Brain Damage
Hypotheses Fall To Brain Therapy Speculation
j) Mechoulam on Policy and the
Chemistry of Emotions
k) DEA Findings Disputed
Notes
4. Marijuana's History and Current Pattern of Use
a) Introduction
To Major Statistical Indicators
b) National Household
Survey
c) Monitoring
the Future
d) Drug Abuse
Warning Network
e) National Narcotics
Intelligence Consumers Committee
f) Uniform Crime
Reports
g) Affirming the
Consequent - Perceived Risk and Use
h) Correspondence
Rules - What is a Marijuana User?
i) Self Serving
Comparisons - Marijuana Potency
j) Misrepresented
Research Findings
k) Conclusion:
Persistence of Use Marks the Failure of Prohibition
Notes
5. The Scope, Duration and Significance of Marijuana Use
a) Introduction:
Additional Social and Economic Costs of Prohibition
b) Set
and Setting and the issue of School Age Access
c) Use/Abuse Model
Obstructs Prevention Efforts
d) DEA
and the Therapeutic Use of Marijuana
e) Prohibition's
Burden on State and Local Governments
f) Cannabis
Eradication - Introduction
g) Cannabis
Eradication and the Price of Marijuana
h) Effects
of Cannabis Eradication on Cultivation Trends and General
Availability
i) Federalization
of Marijuana Cultivation Offenses
j) Paramilitary
Marijuana Operations Expand
k) Cannabis
Eradication: Self-Evaluation by the DEA
l) DEA
Estimates of Domestic Marijuana Cultivation: Extent and
Value
m) Critique
of DEA Eradication Program Data
n) Summary
of Additional Social and Economic Impacts
Notes
6. What, If any, Risk there is from Marijuana to the Public
Health
a) Introduction:
Marijuana, Public Health, and Teens
b) Interpretive
Models of Teen Marijuana Use
c) The
Gateway Theory: Marijuana Use and Other Drug Use
d) Can
We Generalize About an Average Marijuana User?
e) Becker:
Becoming a Marijuana User
f) Hansen:
Meta-analysis of Adolescent Marijuana Use Studies
g) The
Benefits of Delaying the Onset of First Use of Any Recreational
Drug
h) Nuerobiology,
Policy, and Public Health
Notes
7. Marijuana's Psychic or Physiological Dependence Liability
a) Marijuana's
Dependence Liability - 1970
b) The
Legal Importance of Scheduling Criteria
c) The
Dependence Liability of Marijuana
Notes
Research Published After the Petition Filing:
Update
- Dopamine and the Dependence Liability of Marijuana,
July 1997
8. Marijuana's Constituent Parts
a) Introduction:
Issues Raised By Marijuana's Constituent Parts
b) Study
Elements of Federally Funded Marijuana Research
c) Cannabis
Chemistry
d) Relative
Dangers of Pharmaceutical and Natural Substances
e) Dronabinol
f) History
and a Policy Paradigm
g) Institute
of Medicine Report: Cannabinoid Pharmacology
h) Cannabinoids
is a Precise Scientific Term
i) The
Emergence and Promise of Synthetic Cannabinoid Analog
Drugs
j) The
Common Mechanism of Action of All Cannabinoid Drugs
Notes
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