Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy

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Major Studies Table of Contents - Full Text

Year	Country	Title
1894	India	Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report
1905	US	Report of the Committee Appointed by the Philippine Commission to Investigate The Use of Opium and the Traffic Therein...Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Dept., Philippines
1926	England	Departmental Committee on Morphine and Heroin Addiction, Report
1928	US	The Opium Problem by Charles E. Terry and Mildred Pellens
1929	US	Panama Canal Zone Military Investigations (US Military, 1916-29)
1930	US	Report on the Enforcement of the Prohibition Laws of the United States by the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission Report on Alcohol Prohibition)
1944	US	The LaGuardia Committee Report Mayor's Committee on Marihuana, The Marihuana Problem in the City of New York commissioned by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, written by the New York Academy of Medicine, and published by the City of New York in 1944
1961	England	Interdepartmental Committee, Drug Addiction, (The First Brain Report)
1961	US	Drug Addiction: Crime or Disease? Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association on Narcotic Drugs, Interim and Final Reports, 1961:
1965	England	Interdepartmental Committee, Drug Addiction, Second Report, (The Second Brain Report)
1968	England	Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence, Cannabis, (The Wootton Report)
1970	Canada	Canadian Government Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, (The Le Dain Report) Interim Report - Cannabis Report
1970	US	The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry into the Legal History of American Marihuana Prohibition by Professors Richard J. Bonnie & Charles H. Whitebread, II, Virginia Law Review, Volume 56, October 1970 Number 6
1972	US	The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs, by Edward M. Brecher and the Editors of Consumer Reports Magazine (Highly Recommended)
1972	US	The Koerner Commission Report, State of Ohio
1972	US	Dealing With Drug Abuse: A Report to the Ford Foundation, by the Drug Abuse Survey Project.
1972	US	Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding, National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse
1973	US	Drug Use in America: Problem in Perspective, National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse
1977	US	The Nation's Toughest Drug Law: Evaluating the New York Experience, by the Joint Committee on New York Drug Law Evaluation, of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
1980	US	The Facts About Drug Abuse, The Drug Abuse Council
1982	US	An Analysis of Marihuana Policy, National Research Council of the National Academy of Science
1988	US	DEA Docket No. 86-22, DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge ruling on medical marijuana
1989	US	Cannabis Therapeutic Research Program, State of California, 1989, This Phase III study (the last step before approval for prescription use) demonstrated smoked marijuana's effectiveness for reducing nausea and vomiting in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy in clinical settings. Despite the fact that this study proved the medical utility of cannabis as an anti-emetic, marijuana was not approved for medical use.
1989	US	AIDS and Drug Misuse, Part 1, Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, 1988; Part 2, 1989
1989	US	Report of the Research Advisory Panel for the State of California
1991	US	"The Twin Epidemics of Substance Use and HIV" The National Commission on AIDS
1994	US	A Wiser Course: Ending Drug Prohibition, A Report of the Special Committee on Drugs and the Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
1994	Australia	Legislative Options for Cannabis. Australian Government
1994	US	Technologies for Understanding and Preventing Substance Abuse and Addiction -- US Government Office of Technology Assessment -- October 18, 1994
1996	Australia	Drugs and our Community - Report of the Premier's Drug Advisory Council, Melbourne: Victorian Government, March, 1996
1996	US	Report and Recommendations of the Drug Policy Task Force, New York County Lawyers Association
1996	Australia	Beyond Prohibition - Report of the Redfern Legal Centre Drug Law Reform Project - September 1996

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