Columbia University chapter of the
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidible outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.

- Thomas Paine, Common Sense , January 1776