The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has stated repeatedly and unequivocally that marijuana has no medical value, and consequently has classified it as a Schedule I controlled substance, along with heroin - even though the synthetic drug Marinol, with the same psychoactive ingredient, is classified in Schedule III.

Author David R. Ford offers to pay the DEA one million dollars, if, within one year from the publication of this book, the government can prove that marijuana has no medical value, on the condition that if it cannot, the federal government agrees to release all prisoners presently serving time for nonviolent marijuana-related offenses, to cease arresting and charging others with such offenses, and to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III.