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1. Name: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA)
2. Medical Marijuana Position: CON to the question "Should marijuana be a medical option?"
3. Reasoning:

"For certain individuals with AIDS and the 15 percent of chemotherapy patients whose nausea is not relieved by currently available medicines, marijuana may have some medicinal value. That is something to be determined by the research and clinical trials that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended in its report, Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base, issued earlier this year… Medical marijuana should not be the nose under the tent leading to the drug's general legalization (as some proponents hope) any more than the medical use of cocaine and opiates has been regarded as an opening move in the direction of general use." (07/99)

4. Credibility Ranking:  Those individuals and organizations involved in the Medical Marijuana debate which do not fit into the other star categories.
5. Organization  
  A. Mission
  • Inform Americans of the economic and social costs of substance abuse and its impact on their lives.
  • Assess what works in prevention, treatment, and law enforcement.
  • Encourage every individual and institution to take responsibility to combat substance abuse and addiction.
  • Provide those on the front lines with the tools they need to succeed.
  • Remove the stigma of abuse and replace shame and despair with hope.
  B. Description:

"A unique think/action tank that engages all disciplines to study every form of substance abuse as it affects our society."
  C. Structure: Non-profit 501(c)3
  D. Members /
    Constituents:		 Non-membership
  E. Annual Budget: $12.6 million
  F. Sr. Executive: Joseph Califano, Jr.
  G. Title: Chairman
  H. Contact Info:
Phone: (212) 841-5200   Fax: (212) 956-8020
E-Mail:  wcoyle@casacolumbia.org
Web Site: www.casacolumbia.org
  I: # of offices: 1
  J: Staff: 20
6. Relevant Affiliations: None
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