How Pot Became Demonized: the Fine Line Between Good Medicine and 'Dangerous Drugs' / Alternet, 13 May 2008
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/85205/
Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb
"The struggle between politics and science over the use of cannabis as a medicine continues. In the final decade of the twentieth century, the federal government threatened physicians with the loss of their license for recommending marijuana to patients, made criminals of patients who followed their doctor's advice, and actively blocked scientific research into the therapeutic value of cannabis, while insisting that it was an established scientific fact that marijuana is not a medicine."