RE: “Why is marijuana still illegal?,” Letters, April 25]:
Vidda Crochetta, there are studies dating back to 1894, when the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission issued the results of a very in-depth study.
The LaGuardia Committee report in 1944, the U.S. National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse in 1972 (Shafer Commission), and the Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs (2002) are the most significant of these studies.
The one thing all of these studies have in common is that they support the re-legalization of cannabis after in-depth study.