Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marijuana, in effective dosages, affects mood and decision-making centers of the brain, as does alcohol only at the level of drunkenness. Pot, in contrast to alcohol, has little effect on the mechanics of body movement, whereas the drunk is partially protected by being unable to carry out many of his impetuous, diluted inclinations. The pot high lasts more than four hours, is easily extended, and is not easily detected by those who should be warned of the partial incapacitation of the potted. The quality of the mind depends on the sum of experiences in judging whether information is reliable...
Beneath the bitchy, lancing wit of the verbal byplay, Playwright Mart Crowley keeps a dead-level eye on the desolating aspects of homosexual life. He records the loveless, brief encounters, the guilt-ridden, blackout reliance on alcohol, the endless courtship rat race of the gay bars with its inevitable quota of rejection, humiliation and loneliness. Crowley underscores the fact that while the homosexual may pose as a bacchanal of nonconformist pagan delights, he frequently drinks a hemlock-bitter cup of despair...
Except for Item 2, there are obviously parallel charges that can be leveled at the excessive use of alcohol. But Giordano declares: "Surely it is not valid to justify the adoption of a new vice by trying to show that it is no worse than a presently existing...
...with the true narcotics-opium, its refined extracts (heroin, morphine' codeine) and their synthetic substitutes. Additionally, Dr. Mikuriya reported, cannabis is so nearly nonpoisonous that to kill one mouse requires 40,000 times the dose that makes a man high. By contrast, 20 times the relaxant dose of alcohol can kill...
...will inevitably create an appetite for more dangerous drugs? Even marijuana's defenders concede that most heroin addicts and LSD users have tried marijuana first, but they deny there is a cause-and-effect relationship. Most likely, they say, the disturbed individual seeking to escape will start with alcohol or the cheapest and most readily available drug, which happens to be pot. If he later takes to heroin, he would eventually have done so anyway...