Arnold S. Trebach, President of the Drug Policy Foundation, is a professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Society, School of Public Affairs, The American University, Washington, D.C. His other books include The Rationing of Justice (1964), The Heroin Solution (1982), The Great Drug War (1989), and, with Kevin B. Zeese, A Reformer's Catalogue (1989). He holds a J.D. degree from the New England School of Law and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. From 1986 to 1988 he served on the Working Group on Substancé Abuse and Criminality of the National Academy of Sciences.

He has been Chief, Administration of Justice Section, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1960- 63); Administrator, National Defender Project, National Legal Aid and Defender Association (1963-64); Chief Consultant on the Administration ofJustice, White House Conference on Civil Rights (1965-69); founder and President, University Research Corporation (1965-69); co-founder and Chairman, National Committee on the Treatment of Intractable Pain (1977-78); and consultant to the U.S. Department ofJustice, Congress and other national agencies.

Kevin B. Zeese is Vice President and Counsel of the Drug Policy Foundation. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Society, School of Public Affairs, The American University. He is the author of the Drug Testing Legal Manual (1988) and, with Arnold Trebach, A Reformer's Catalogue (1989). Since 1982, he has served as the editor of Drug Law Report. He is the editor of numerous criminal defense manuals, including Defense of Drug Cases, New Issues In Drug Defense and Conspiracy. He holds a J.D. degree from the George Washington University National Law Center.

He has practiced law for 10 years, including cases representing criminal defendants accused of drug offenses, challenging the spraying of paraquat on marijuana, denying the medical use of marijuana, challenging militaristic marijuana eradication programs and attacking drug testing of public employees. He is a Vice President and founding member of the International Anti-Prohibitionist League. He continues to be a consultant to the law firm of Zwerling, Mark and Sutherland of Alexandria, Va. From 1980 to 1986, he served as Chief Counsel to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and from 1983 to 1986 served as the organization's National Director.