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The Lindesmith Library was founded in 1995 and named after Professor Alfred Lindesmith of Indiana University, the first prominent scholar in the U.S. to challenge conventional thinking about drugs, addiction and drug policy. Its catalog contains more than 15,000 documents and videos.

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Cannabinomics 60x85Cannabinomics

As we move toward a regulated and economically integrated cannbis trade, Christopher Glenn Fichtner, M.D., calls for a stakeholder-inclusive regulatory process. Cannabinomics reframes the marijuana debate and offers a new paradigm for public conversation on key drug policy isssues of our time.

A Voter's Handbook 60x85A Voter's Handbook: Effective Solutions to America's Problems

Judge Jim Gray, author of the 2001 book Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It, is an outspoken critic of drug laws, especially in the state of California. In A Voter's Handbook, Judge Gray shows how we would be safer, healthier, better educated and more successful by implementing specific changes in our systems of criminal justice, healthcare, education and immigration.

My MedicineMy Medicine

In 1982 Irv Rosenfeld won the right to access medical marijuana from the federal government. Thirteen people with debilitating conditions we allowed the program to receive government-grown marijuana. In the 1990's the program was shut down so Irv is now one of the 4 surviving patients. He still receives almost 9 ounces per month of medical marijuana grown by NIH and NIDA at the University of Mississippi.