"The criminal prosecution of patients for medical marijuana must end immediately, and marijuana must be treated as a medicine for the seriously ill. [...]

[R]esearch has shown marijuana to be a safe and effective medicine for controlling nausea associated with cancer therapy, reducing the eye pressure for patients with glaucoma, and reducing muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, para- and quadriplegia. [...]

Physicians must have the right to prescribe this drug to their patients without the fear of the federal government revoking their licenses, and doctor-patient privacy must be protected. The Drug Enforcement Administration should not be practicing medicine."

• Independent Presidential Candidate, 2004, 2008
• Green Party Presidential Candidate, 2000
• Attorney, author, and consumer advocate
• Founder, Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), Center for Auto Safety, Public Citizen, Clean Water Action Project, Disability Rights Center, Pension Rights Center, Project for Corporate Responsibility, The Multinational Monitor
• Founder, Center for Study of Responsive Law (CSRL), 1969
• Lecturer, History and Government, University of Hartford, 1961-1963
• U.S. Army, 1959

• LLB, with distinction, Harvard Law School, 1958
• AB, magna cum laude, East Asian studies, Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, Princeton University, 1955

• Named as one of the 100 Most Influential Americans in the Twentieth Century by Time Magazine

• The Seventeen Traditions, 2007
• Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap, 2004
• In Pursuit of Justice: Collected Writings 2000-2003, 2004
• Civic Arousal, 2004
• Cowritten with Barbara Ehrenreich, Ralph Nader Reader, 2000
• Cowritten with editor Charles Derber, Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It, 2000