Forum Newsfront

July, 1978

Pot-PourriSanta Fe--New Mexico has become the first state to pass a law permitting the legal use of marijuana for certain medical purposes. The law permits research and experimentation with pot as a therapeutic drug under strict controls and authorizes the director of the state's health department to contract with the National Institute on Drug Abuse for supplying marijuana to qualified patients. The legislature acted on the bill partly in response to the case of a 26-year-old University of New...