Dr. Mitch Earleywine, professor of psychology at State University of New York at Albany says, "stronger cannabis leads to less inhaled smoke." Earleywine points out that there is no data showing higher marijuana potency leads to more addiction.

He described the withdrawal symptoms of marijuana as mild at best. "Mild irritability, craving for marijuana, and decreased appetite -- I mean those are laughable when you talk about withdrawal from a drug. Caffeine is worse."

Psychiatrist professor Lester Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School agrees. He says ""Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia, which is yet to account for a single death in over 5000 years of use".

Doubts
With more and more doubts cast on John Walters theories regarding cannabis, how is it more than 600,000 Americans have been arrested for possession of marijuana each year since 1995?

The federal government spent almost $20 billion in 2003 alone on the "war on drugs," a number that continues to rise.

In the meantime an estimated 30,000,000 (30 million) Americans smoke cannabis at least once a week, and a quote from Judge James Grey, of the Orange County Superior Court, Santa Ana sums up the marijuana situation perfectly.

According to Judge Grey,"If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison, or running one".

For possession of a substance which is inherently safe for 99.99% of its users?

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