Bureau of Prisons

We are told that the use of marihuana causes crime. But as yet no one has been produced from the Bureau of Prisons to show the number of persons addicted to marihuana. An informal inquiry shows that the Bureau of Prisons has no information to this point. You have been told that school children are great users of marihuana cigarettes. No one has been summoned from the Children s Bureau to show the nature and extent of the habit among children. Inquiry into the Office of Education, and they certainly should know something of the prevalence of the habit among school children of this country, if there is a prevalent habit, indicates that they had not occasion to investigate it and know nothing of it. 

Prescriptions may be issued by physicians, dentists, podiatrists, veterinarians, midlevel practitioners, and any other registered practitioner who is authorized to prescribe controlled substances by the jurisdiction in which the practitioner practices. The practitioner must be licensed with the DEA or must be recognized by the DEA as an exempt practitioner (i.e.. Public Health Service, Bureau of Prisons). 

U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons http //www.bop.gov... 

Bureau of Justice Statistics. (1999). Prisoners in 1999. Washington, DC U.S. Department of Justice, August 2000. 

Harrison, P Beck. A. (2003). Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin Prisoners in 2002. (U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, NCJ 200248), http //www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/p02.pdf forfu text)... 

Glaze, L.E, (2003, August). Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin Probation and Parole in the United States, 2002. (U.S, Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs. NCJ 201135.) http //www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ pdf/ppus02.pdf h full text) In 2002,6.7 million people were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole at yearend 2002 - 3.1% of all U.S. adult residents or 1 in every 32 adults. (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Corrections Statistics, Retrieved April 9, 2004 from http //www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/ correct.htm)... 

The LaGuardia Report was not the only laboratory study of marihuana in the 1940s. The United States Public Health Service also conducted experiments on the effects of the drag. Unlike the LaGuardia study, however, subjects in this study were allowed to smoke as many marihuana cigarettes as they wanted for thirty-nine days. The marihuana was supplied by the Bureau of Narcotics. All six subjects in the experiment were prisoners, all had been previous users of marihuana, and ironically, all had been imprisoned for violation of the Marihuana Tax Act. 

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