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New report:
"Physicians group urges easing of ban on medical marijuana," Los
Angeles Times, February 15, 2008.
New reports:
Office of
National Drug Control Policy
Background & overview:
National Drug Control Strategy, 2007
Annual reports on strategy & budget:
National
Drug Control Strategy Annual Reports
Laws:
Marijuana Laws, CQ Researcher, Feb 11, 2005.
Background & statistics:
Results from 2003 National Survey on Drug Use (2004)
Background:
Marijuana Myths & Facts
(2004)
PDF-44 pages
Background & overview:
Marijuana Abuse (2002)
PDF-8
pages
Background & overview:
Understanding
Marijuana: A New
Look at the Scientific
Evidence (2002)
CATALOG RECORD
Background & overview:
Toward a Drugs
and Crime Research Agenda for the 21st Century (2003)
PDF-203 pages
Background & overview:
Marijuana: Overview, Prevalence, Consequences, Treatment, Adjudication,
Legislation (2003)
Gateway drug:
Using Marijuana
May Not Raise the Risk of Using Harder Drugs
[RAND]
Background & overview:
Marijuana Use and Delinquent Behaviors Among Youths (2004)
Background & overview:
What Americans Need to Know About Marijuana (2003)
Medical
marijuana:
Marijuana:
Early Experiences with Four States’
Laws That Allow Use for Medical
Purposes (2002)
PDF-63 pages
Supreme Court
opinion:
United
States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative (May 14, 2001)
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Drug Facts: Marijuana (2004)
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Results from 2003 National Survey on Drug Use (2004)
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Illegal Drug Use
[Faststats]
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Marijuana Reports
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NIDA InfoFax:
Marijuana
(2004)
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Drug-Related Data Tables (costs
to society of drug use) (2003)
-
National Survey on Drug Use & Health
HTML |
CATALOG RECORD
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Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance—United States, 2003 (EDIT/Find:
marijuana)
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Decrease in
Use of Marijuana, Club Drugs, Cigarettes, and Tobacco (December 16,
2002)
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State and Local Data (California, Los Angeles)
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Drug-Related Crime (2003)
-
Drugs & Crime
Facts (2003)
-
Statistics on Drugs and
Crime
-
Arrests—U.S.
Marijuana Arrests
Set New Record (2006) [Marijuana Policy Project]
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Arrests—California, Orange County, cities:
RAND
California Drug Abuse Statistics
[CSUF only]
-
Sourcebook of
Criminal Justice Statistics
CATALOG RECORD
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Substance Use
in Popular
Movies
and Music
(1999)
CATALOG RECORD
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Substance Use in
Popular Prime-Time Television
(2000)
- Trends in
Harmfulness of Drugs as Perceived by Eighth, Tenth, and Twelfth Graders,
1991-2000
PDF-1
page
-
What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs 1988-1998
-
Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance--United States, 2001
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Parental Influences
on Adolescent Marijuana Use and the Baby
Boom Generation (2001)
CATALOG RECORD
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Parental Influences on Adolescent
Marijuana Use and the Baby Boom Generation
(2001)
CATALOG
RECORD
-
"Pot's Rise Reported in Young Arrestees: Crime: Marijuana appears to
have replaced crack as drug of choice for those ages 18 to 20." Los
Angeles Times, June 30, 2001, Home Edition, Part A, Part 1, Page 11,
National Desk.
- Portrait
of Health in the United States: Major Statistical Trends (2000)
CATALOG RECORD
xx
- Annual
Medical Examiner Data
CATALOG RECORD
- Drugs and
Crime Facts
CATALOG RECORD
- Fact
Sheet: Drug Related Crime
CATALOG RECORD & INTERNET LINK
- Health
United States
CATALOG RECORD
-
Statistical Abstract of the United States
CATALOG RECORD &
INTERNET LINK
- Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Statistics Sourcebook
CATALOG RECORD
3rd Floor North: DOCS DESK HE 20.402:SO
8/ 1998
- Youth Risk
Behavior Surveillance—United States, 1999
Print:
DOCS/US HE 20.7009/2-3:49/5 |
HTML
- Youth Risk
Behavior Surveillance—United States, 1997
Print:
DOCS/US HE 20.7009/2-3:47/3 |
HTML
- Youth Risk
Behavior Surveillance—United States, 1995
Print:
DOCS/US HE 20.7009/2-3:45/4 |
HTML
- Youth Risk
Behavior Surveillance—United States, 1993
Print:
DOCS/US HE 20.7009/2-3:44/SS-1 |
HTML
Legal overview:
Cannabis
In Medical Practice: A Legal,
Historical,
and Pharmacological Overview of the Therapeutic Use of Marijuana (1997)
CATALOG RECORD
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 Below
is a list of recent books. To find
additional books in Pollak Library,
search
the
Library Catalog by
subject:
Subject:
marijuana
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Recent reports:
SAMHSA: Marijuana
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Background:
Marijuana Myths & Facts
(2004)
PDF-44 pages
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Background & overview:
Marijuana: Overview,
Prevalence, Consequences, Treatment, Adjudication, Legislation
(2003)
-
Background, overview &
scientific evidence:
Understanding Marijuana:
A New Look at the Scientific
Evidence (2002)
CATALOG RECORD
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Substance Use Among Youths Who
Had Run Away From Home
(2004)
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Seasonality of
Youth's First Time Use of Marijuana, Cigarettes, and Alcohol
(2004)
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Patterns of Mental Health
Service Utilization and Substance Use Among Adults, 2000 and 2001
(2004)
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What Americans Need to Know About Marijuana (2003)
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Marijuana Reports
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Marijuana: Weeding Out the
Hype (2002)
CATALOG RECORD
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Initiation of Marijuana Use:
Trends, Patterns, and Implications (2002) PDF-158 pages
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Gateway drug: Using
Marijuana May Not Raise the Risk of
Using Harder Drugs (2002)
PDF-2
pages
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Monitoring the Future
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Arrests:
The Rise of
Marijuana as the Drug of Choice Among Youthful Adult Arrestees (2001)
PDF-19 pages
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Proposition 36: Drug
Offenders and the Criminal Justice System: Will Proposition 36 Treat or
Create Problems? (2000) [RAND]
PDF-46 pages
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Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance 2001 (2002) [MMWR]
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Breaking the
Cycle of Drug Use Among Juvenile Offenders
(1999)
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Arrests:
1998 Annual
Report on Marijuana Use Among Arrestees Series (1999)
xx
- Pulse Check: Drug Markets
and Chronic Users in 25 of America's Largest Cities (2004)
PDF-351 pages Drug abuse and drug markets in 25 US cities, including
Los Angeles. Age, ethnicity, and
gender of illegal drug users and sellers. Prices and purity levels of
different drugs by city.
- Addiction
is a Brain Disease—And it Matters
PDF-52 pages
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Are Mandatory
Minimum Drug Sentences Cost-Effective? (1997)
[RAND]
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Brain & the
Actions of Cocaine, Opiates, and Marijuana
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Destructive Impact of Drugs in the United States: How the Legalization
of Drugs Would Jeopardize the Health and Safety of the American People
and Our Nation
CATALOG RECORD
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Dispelling the
Myths About Addiction
[National Academy of Sciences]
- Drugs,
Alcohol, and Society: Social Structure, Process, and Policy
CATALOG RECORD
- Drugs and
Society (2001)
CATALOG RECORD
- Global
Habit: The Drug Problem in a Borderless World CATALOG
RECORD
- Marijuana
and Actual
Driving
Performance
CATALOG RECORD
- Marijuana
and Medicine: Assessing the
Science Base
(1999)
CATALOG RECORD
Marijuana Fact
Sheet
Marijuana: Facts Parents Need to Know
HTML
Marijuana: Facts for Teens
HTML
Marijuana
Myths, Marijuana Facts: A Review of the
Scientific Evidence
CATALOG RECORD
Marijuana
Situation Assessment
CATALOG RECORD
Marijuana: The
Facts [DEA]
Marijuana: The Facts
[Drug Policy Alliance]
Sense of
the House of Representatives with Respect to Marijuana for Medicinal Use
CATALOG RECORD
Substance Use
in Popular
Movies
and Music
(1999)
CATALOG RECORD
Substance Use
in Popular Prime-Time
Television
(2000)
To find
articles, search Pollak Library's
subscription databases. The links below will take you to a list of
relevant databases. From the list, select a database and then enter search
terms.
Databases--Statistics
Databases--Pro & Con
Databases--Scholarly Journals
Databases--Newspapers
Databases--Government Sources
CQ Researcher
issues of note:
"Marijuana Laws,"
February 11, 2005
"Medical Marijuana," August, 20, 1999
Articles of note:
top
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"Marijuana Use is Pushing Teens into Treatment" [statistics],
Los
Angeles Times, April 26, 2004.
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Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance--United States, 2003
- "Variation
in Youthful Risks of Progression from Alcohol and Tobacco to Marijuana
and to Hard Drugs Across Generations," American Journal of Public
Health, Volume 91, Issue 2, 2001, pages 225-232. For full text,
search
ABI/Inform database by Article
Title.
- "Addiction
is a Brain Disease—And it Matters"
PDF-52 pages. Also
in PRINT: NIJ Journal, October 1998 (No. 237), DOCS/US
J 28.14/2-2:237, page 2.
- "Analysis
shows correlation between smoking cigarettes and marijuana in
adolescents." SAMHSA News, Win 97 v.5 n1 p2. DOCS/US
HE 20.425:5/1 p.2.
- "Expert
group examines science of smoking marijuana" [for medicinal purposes].
NIH Record, Mar 11, 97 v49 n5 p1, 6-7. DOCS/US HE
20.3007/3:49/5 p.6
.
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State by State Medical
Marijuana Laws: How to Remove the Threat of Arrest
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How
State
Medical Marijuana Laws Vary: A Comprehensive Review
(2003) [Rand]
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National Survey of
State Laws (all 50 states) (2003)
REFERENCE KF386 .N38 2003 (see page
188-200)
CATALOG RECORD
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State and Local Data (California, Los Angeles)
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"Court Accepts
Medical Pot Use," Los Angeles Times, July 19, 2002, Page A-1.
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Marijuana: Early
Experiences with Four
States' Laws
That Allow
Use for Medical
Purposes (2002)
PDF-63 pages
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"A New Tack
on Medical Pot Use," Los Angeles Times, November 25, 2001, Sunday
Home Edition, Part 2, Page 1.
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California Code: Possession
of marijuana:
Health & Safety Code Section 11357-11362.9
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California Code: Medical
Marijuana:
Health & Safety Code Section 11357-11362.9 -
Note: Scroll down to
Section
11362.5.
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Proposition 36:
Text (November 2000 ballot pamphlet)
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Proposition 36:
Summary
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Proposition 36:
Analyses
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Proposition 36:
Legislative Analyst's Office
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Proposition 36:
Legislative
Analyst's Office: Budget Analysis
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Statistics:
9th
Biennial California Student Survey
-
Snapshot
of students’ risky and health-related behaviors, including drug, alcohol
and tobacco use.
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Statistics—California & Orange County:
RAND California: Drug Abuse Statistics
[state, counties, and cities] [CSUF only]
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Statistics—Orange
County—all California counties:
Community
Indicators of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Risk
Scroll down to
list of counties. Data on 26 community indicators, including measures of
risk factors associated with alcohol and other drug use, measures of
overall substance use prevalence, and measures of the consequences
associated with problem use. Includes six-year trends with state and
county-level comparisons. One report for each county.
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Statistics: Drug Arrests in
California, 1999
PDF-7 pages [click on Acrobat's FIND
feature—binoculars
icon—to quickly locate
marijuana]
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Statistics: California
Household Substance Use Survey
PDF-26
pages
- "Pot's
Rise Reported in Young Arrestees: Crime: Marijuana appears to have
replaced crack as drug of choice for those ages 18 to 20."
Los
Angeles Times, June 30, 2001, Home Edition, Part A, Part 1, Page 11,
National Desk.
California Medical Association Statement on Medicinal Marijuana, May 14,
2001
Substance
abuse admissions (for marijuana): SEE Health Data Summaries for
California Counties ("County Health Indicators" section)
CATALOG RECORD
California Criminal Justice
Statistics Center
Note:
Click on
SEARCH
then type
marijuana
Crime and
Delinquency in California [PRINT]
CATALOG RECORD &
INTERNET LINK
Criminal
Justice Profile: California (statewide data)
CATALOG RECORD
Criminal
Justice Profile: Orange County
CATALOG RECORD
California
Adolescents Ages 11-18: A Fact Sheet [CRB]
PDF-7 pages
Search for journal articles in these databases:
Databases--Scholarly Journals
Articles of special note:
"Physicians group urges easing of ban on medical marijuana," Los Angeles
Times, February 15, 2008. "American College of
Physicians is calling on the federal government to ease its strict ban
on marijuana as medicine and hasten research into the drug's therapeutic
uses."
Full Report PDF-13 pages [American College of Physicians]
Supporting
Research into the Therapeutic Role of Marijuana |
Full Report PDF-13 pages [American College of Physicians]
"Marijuana Laws," CQ Researcher, Feb 11, 2005.
"Medical
Marijuana to Get Justices' Review" [The
Supreme Court announced Monday that it would hear the Bush
administration's claim that federal drug agents have the authority to
arrest seriously ill Californians who use homegrown marijuana to relieve
their pain.] Los Angeles Times, June 29, 2004.
"Medical
Pot Users Win Key Ruling,"
Los Angeles Times, December 17, 2003, Page 1, Part 1.
"Medical Marijuana Wins A
Court Victory," New York Times, Wednesday, October 30, 2002,
Section A, Page 20.
"Court Accepts Medical Pot
Use," Los Angeles Times, July 19, 2002, Page A-1.
"A New Tack on Medical Pot
Use," Los Angeles Times, November 25, 2001, Sunday Home Edition,
Part 2, Page 1.
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