ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The essays collected in this volume were prepared over a span of four years (1974-1977), with one eye on the political process and the other on. the scholarly literature on criminal sanctions. They have, for this reason, previously appeared in diverse publications. Chapter 2 appeared in 30 Virginia Law Weekly DICTA No. 12 (1977). Chapter 3 is a modified version of testimony delivered on November 20, 1974 to the Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics of the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Health and Welfare and published in Marijuana Research and Legal Controls, (G.P.O. Committee Print 43-8880). Chapter 4 is a revised and updated version of papers originally prepared for the National Governors' Conference in connection with an LEAA-sponsored study of recent revisions of the marijuana laws and later published in 11 Mich. J. of Law Reform 3 (1977). Chapter 5 is composed of two separate essays. The first was originally submitted to the Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee to supplement testimony delivered on May 5, 1975. See Marijuana Decriminalization (G.P.O. Committee Print 68- 8010). The second part of Chapter 5 originally appeared as a column in the Washington Post entitled "Loosening the Laws on Marijuana", published on January 24, 1976, and is reprinted with the permission of the Washington Post Company. Finally, Chapter 6 was prepared during the spring of 1977 for the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse under Contract No. 271-77-1211.

I am indebted to three generations of student research assistants at the University of Virginia School of Law for many hours of hard work and collaboration. Special thanks are due to Michael P. Lehman (Class of 1975), Robert M. Pomeroy (Class of 1976), Patrick Noonan (Class of 1977) and Robert Aldrich (Class of 1977).

Mere thanks are not enough, of course, for the secretarial staff at the University of Virginia Law School whose patience and good humor enabled me to take at least a modest step beyond the awkward and illegible prose with which I began.

Finally, I gratefully acknowledge the continuing support of the University of Virginia Law School and the opportunity for reflection and research provided by the award of a Sesquicentennial Associateship by the University's Center for Advanced Studies in the spring of 1977. I was fortunate enough to spend a portion of that time as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, England, where I was afforded a warm and peaceful working environment.