In a recent study funded by the National Institutes of Health and released to the press by the American Medical Association, researchers determined that long-term marijuana use did not impair pulmonary function in humans. The results of the study are not remarkable; indeed, if it were otherwise, bodies would have been piling up for years, as Ed Brecher (author of Licit and Illicit Drugs, 1972), used to say. What’s remarkable is that the U.S. Government funded a study that did not report only adverse effects of marijuana. This is an extraordinary development, suggesting that NIS, at long last, may no longer be willing to carry the water for prohibition, and is willing to put science before politics.