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Book Description
In Marijuana: Not Guilty As Charged,
Ford definitely examines and debunks each myth about marijuana, presenting
facts based on meticulous studies. In a candid and common-sense tone,
this book informs readers on the current debate over marijuana: its medicinal
value, as well as it recreational, creative, and other uses. Testimonials
from people with cancer (including the author himself), AIDS, glaucoma,
multiple sclerosis, paraplegia, migraines, and other debilitating conditions
offer convincing evidence of marijuana's medical relief. If marijuana
is relatively harmless, why is it illegal?
David Ford explains how the federal government created a systematic campaign
of deception that began in the 1930's. Why were U.S. legislators, professionals
and the public duped into outlawing this relatively harmless plant---along
with hemp, it's versatile NON-INTOXICATING cousin? Why was marijuana placed
in the same category as heroin: "too dangerous to prescribe by a
physician"? Was it to protect multinational corporations from a plant
that cannot be patented? From fifty years of research and interviews with
hundreds of marijuana users, the author offers compelling arguments why
marijuana should never have been illegal. The government is aware that
marijuana never resulted in even one documented toxicity-related death
and IS medicine. In 1966, the voters of California and Arizona saw through
the malicious propaganda and approved marijuana for medical purposes.
This has fanned the fire of controversy and incited the Drug Enforcement
Administration to threaten legal action against doctors who recommend
marijuana to ease the suffering of the ill and dying.
Vivid accounts depict some of the atrocities, including death by law enforcement
officers, the rape of inmates including mothers while in prison, and other
injustices that accompany the counterproductive war on drugs.
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Book Review
MARIJUANA:
NOT GUILTY AS CHARGED, well-researched, challenging. A much needed
contribution to national debates with respect to the "drug war."
High
Times Magazine
Ford's MARIJUANA: NOT GUILTY AS
CHARGED, interviews more than 300 marijuana users. Shows how the history
of marijuana has been distorted.
German magazine HANF
"The only thing wrong with
MARIJUANA: NOT GUILTY AS CHARGED, is that it is not written in German!"
Tod
Mikuriya , M.D.
Head of marijuana research for the National Institute of Mental Health
in the late 1960s
David Ford brilliantly conducts
us on a tour through the "Malice in
Blunderland" of American
marijuana policy. Based on authoritative documents, news clippings
and personal stories, he presents tales of viciousness, hypocrisy
and ignorance facilitated by self-serving special interest groups.
William
Chapin,
Author, Pulitzer Prize nominee for "Wasted"
When I wrote Wasted (McGraw-Hill),
the story of my son's drug addiction, I thought marijuana was a stepping-stone
to heavier drugs. I'm now convinced that pot had nothing to do with
it. Marijuana: Not Guilty As Charged is a valuable and honest
book - a "must read" for anyone who wants to know the truth.
David Ford also presents ample evidence that marijuana is medicine.
It's a compelling book, and it often reads like a spicy novel.
Francis
L. Young,
DEA's own administrative law judge, 1988
Marijuana, in it's natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically
active substances known to man.
From the Author
Marijuana: Not Guilty as Charged, was five years in the writing. I've spent more than 50 years researching this challenging subject.
I'm tremendously proud of the response to this book. I receive dozen's of emails and letters attesting to its value. It's sad that there are some 30 million, or more, marijuana users. We wonder why pot is not legalized. People are not getting involved.
How many million would you guess belong to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws? (NORML) A million? Two million? Tragically, the number is less than NINE THOUSAND. Read the chapter, WHAT IS NORML? You will want to be a part of history and join up. With your help marijuana will once again be legalized for adults.
In ten thousand years of use there is not one recorded death from the overdose or toxicity of cannabis. Compare that to alcohol that kills more than 100,000 American's each year. Nicotine products kill more than 400,000. And FDA so-called "safe drugs" in the physician's Desk Reference, (PDR) cause the death of another 100,000 each year, and puts one million American's in the hospital annually due to toxicity or overdose.
I'd like to hear from you. My email address is: dave@davidrford.com
David R. Ford
Marijuana:
Not Guilty as Charged, is a valuable gift that you will be giving as
a gift, and recommending to your friends.
From
the Publisher
Marijuana: Not Guilty as Charged, is a reference book that has been
sought internationally. It presents the history of cannabis throughout
the world, and exposes the lies from the federal government that have
continued for more than sixty years. They continue to charge that marijuana
is too dangerous to prescribe. It is still a Schedule 1 drug with heroin.
Author David R. Ford interviewed more than 300 medical and social users of marijuana for the writing of this outstanding hard cover book. If the teens that he interviewed on his popular radio show, JUNIOR JAMBOREE, when he was in high school and college, the number would exceed thousands of young and adult users of this the worlds least harmful drug. Ford lived in Hawaii for 30 years. Many of them were working for the CBS television affiliate in Hawaii. There he interviewed nationally recognized celebrities, as well as users of marijuana. Dozen's of users stories are included in this easy to read book.
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