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27 B.U. Pub. Int. L.J. 167 (2018)
Up in Smoke: Removing Marijuana from Schedule I

handle is hein.journals/bupi27 and id is 173 raw text is: UP IN SMOKE: REMOVING MARIJUANA FROM SCHEDULE I DAVID R. KATNER* I. INTRODUCTION. ........................................ ........ 167 II. DESCRIPTION OF MARIJUANA AND PUBLIC OPINION .. ............. 170 III. HISTORY OF MARIJUANA USES AND LAWS IN THE U.S. AND ABROAD ................................................. 174 IV. CREATION OF SCHEDULES OF DRUGS ................ ........... 177 V. EVOLUTION OF MEDICINAL APPLICATIONS OF MARIJUANA............... 178 VI. ADDICTIVE?................................................. 181 VII. DISSEMINATED PROPAGANDA ABOUT MARIJUANA, AND LEGAL ARBITRARINESS........................................... 184 VIII. RESCHEDULING MARIJUANA TO SCHEDULE II........... ....... 190 IX. REMOVING MARIJUANA ALTOGETHER FROM FEDERAL REGULATION ............................................. 195 X. CONCLUSION................................................ 202 I. INTRODUCTION Billions of dollars are spent each year arresting, prosecuting, and incarcerating Americans convicted of possession of cannabis or marijuana. During the 1970's, annual marijuana arrests ranged between 420,000 and 500,000 people each year.2 By 1995, there were roughly 600,000 marijuana arrests nationwide, with more Americans being imprisoned for possession of marijuana than at any other crime in the nation's history.3 * Professor of Clinical Law & Director, Tulane Law School Juvenile Law Clinic 1 The ACLU estimates the total national expenditure of enforcing marijuana possession laws at approximately $3.613 billion. The War on Marijuana in Black and White, ACLU FOUNDATION 1, 22 (2013), https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/aclu-thewaronmarijuana- rel2.pdf. 2 Dwight S. Fullerton & Marc G. Kurzman, The Identification and Misidentification of Marijuana, 3 CONTEMP. DRUG PROBS. 291,291 (1974). Eric Schlosser, More Reefer Madness, THE ATLANTIC (Apr. 1997), https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/l 997/04/more-reefer-madness/376827. Among the 360,000 arrests for marijuana possession in New York City between 1997 and 167

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