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Author: ProCon.org
David G. Evans, JD Biography
- Title:
- Executive Director of the Drug Free Schools Coalition
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should Marijuana Be a Medical Option?"
- Reasoning:
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“There is no package insert for smoked marijuana… you… grow your own medicine and you decide the dose and purity. Smoking is a very poor way to deliver a drug. There is no way to calculate the dose of smoked marijuana because there is no way to determine how much is actually being inhaled. There is no way for a patient to determine the strength of marijuana necessary. In addition, the harmful chemicals and carcinogens that are byproducts of smoked marijuana create new health problems.”
Letter to law enforcement
, Feb. 2012 - Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with MDs, PhDs, JDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to medical marijuana. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to medical marijuana issues. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Executive Director, Drug Free Schools Coalition
- Attorney
- Special Adviser, Drug Free America Foundation
- Member, International Task Force on Strategic Drug Policy
- Instructor, Rutgers University Summer School of Alcohol Studies, 1981-1986
- Instructor, Kean College, 1983
- Instructor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 1983
- Former Research Scientist, Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, New Jersey Department of Health
- Education:
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- JD, school unknown
- Other:
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- Has appeared on C-SPAN, Fox News, CNN, and many other programs