Krapp, Kristine, and Jacqueline L. Longe, eds. "Marijuana." The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine. L-R ed. Vol. 3. Farmington Hills: Gale Group, 2001. 1127-130. Print.
This is just a plain old encyclopedia entry about what specifically marijuana is, what it does, why it does it, and where the whole policy issue came from. I think it's both really interesting and really informative. To find a section about marijuana in an alternative medicine book made me pretty happy. It gave a detailed and to my former knowledge, accurate account of what marijuana is, where it was first found, what it is exactly, why it affects the brain the way it does, how it can be helpful as a medication and what possible health side effects it may pose for chronic users. It also mentions how the amount of marijuana smoked for medicinal use is much lower than the amount smoked in recreational abuse. Because the information has been mass produced in an encyclopedia, I think I can trust that it has been fact-checked and is very reliable. At the same time, bias always affects what people write and any facts I draw from this article, I will double check before I lay it down in concrete.
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