The Shafer Commission’s Report was the most in depth political look the United States has ever done, and was commissioned by President Richard Nixon in 1970.
In 1972 the Shafer Commission returned with their official findings, findings that flew in the face of everything the prohibitionists and Goverment had been saying for sixty years.
At one point I was having trouble finding an electronic copy for a paper I was writing, so I have decided I will mirror it here. The transcript I have is of poor quality and on fax paper, so I will have to do it chapter by chapter.
The National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse
Marihuana – A Signal of Misunderstanding.
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
July 24, 2006 at 2:22 am
Before you comment on this page you need to read at least some of the report. If you comment and have obvious no idea what is in the report I will delete your comment. Just a friendly notice.
July 25, 2006 at 7:43 pm
[...] When is this insanity going to end? Cannabis has been proven over and over to be harmless and to have medical properties. The Institute of Medicine and the Shafer Commission (now mirrored here) have both published extensive studies that in no way back the current prohibition. The FDA ignored this. The Federal Government despises that their lies have been discounted. [...]
November 30, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Politicians are 10 years behind the times, when it comes to hemp use. People have been fighting for along time against pot and hemp prohibition with some movement going on now. Still too slow for those caught up in the jail system. Our freedoms have been trampled on by folks who know nothing about how beautiful cannabis can be for someones life. Keep up the good work.
February 10, 2010 at 1:18 pm
I think the problem is not the ignorance of those who are not educated to hemp/cannabis. I think it’s a monetary thing…If cannabis was decriminalized, legalized etc…it would make a SAFE, RELIABLE, COST EFFECTIVE, NON-ADDICTIVE, POWERFUL MEDICINE available to everyone for very little money thus pulling funds out of the pockets of those invested wholeheartidly in the drug companies…