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US: Sad News: Drug Policy Scholar Lynn Zimmer Dead at 59
stopthedrugwar.org
Friday 07 Jul 2006 Sad News: Drug Policy Scholar Lynn Zimmer Dead at 59 7/7/06 New York University sociologist Professor Lynn Zimmer died Sunday morning at age 59. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000. Zimmer was one of the early academic supporters of the Drug Policy Foundation (predecessor group to the Drug Policy Alliance) and published extensively on drug policy issues, including drug testing, drug education, and drugs in the media. Zimmer may be best known for coauthoring "Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts," with her friend and colleague Dr. John Morgan in 1997. "Marijuana Myths" has been published in seven languages and remains the best-selling scholarly work on marijuana. A fierce critic of drug prohibition and the drug war, Zimmer was also known for carefully and critically examining proposals for drug legalization. Zimmer's accomplishments in drug reform were honored by both The Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation (now DPA), which awarded her the Lindesmith Award for Achievement in the Field of Scholarship and NORML, which granted her the Lester Grinspoon Award for Achievement in the Field of Marijuana Law Reform from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws in 2000. DPA executive director Ethan Nadelmann has written a personal remembrance of Zimmer and is encouraging others to share their own recollections. Lynn Zimmer died too young and will be missed. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/443/lynnzimmer.shtml
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