Marijuana is a remarkably safe drug. Although its primary active ingredients produce psychoactive effects at doses of a couple of milligrams, they do not have lethal effects. Unlike other psychoactive drugs, including alcohol, aspirin, opiates, nicotine and caffeine, cannabis is not known to cause fatal overdoses. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s own administrative judge Francis Young, in his 1988 decision recommending legalization of medical marijuana, wrote, “Marijuana, in its natural form