Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prolonged or long-term effects of marijuana use are an area of much dispute. There have been reports of psychotic reactions, personality change, impaired learning ability and development of a chronic lethargy. By no means all doctors are convinced, however, that marijuana is the real cause of these reactions...
...neuro-transmitters." substances that make possible the movement of impulses across nerve endings. It also causes an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, and some of its other consequences are distinctly unpleasant. Prolonged use sometimes causes the nasal tissues to wear away so that the nose itself collapses. Chronic use may lead to a psychosis most resembling alcoholic DTs. Overdoses, particularly when injected, can lead to convulsions, heart and respiratory failure and death...
...mother so routinely that lawyers usually advise their male clients not to bother bringing a case. A custody fight is "an act of futility," says New York Supreme Court Justice Sybil Hart Kooper, "unless the woman is a prostitute and practicing in front of her children, or a chronic alcoholic who falls down drunk, or a psychotic who is threatening the children's lives...
...soothsaying fraternity conjures all year long to supply the public addiction. The orgiastic bumper crop comes as a sort of special start-of-the-year fix. One effect of the overdose is that it makes everyone momentarily forget that public dependence on prognosticating is not just seasonal but chronic...
...fascinating draw. A self-described "Jeffersonian democrat," Padover exhibits an intimate and often lurid portrait. As an adolescent, Marx embraced Christ, then, in a long hysterical poem, identified himself with Lucifer. During the exhausting research and writing of Das Kapital, he was plagued by illnesses ranging from carbuncles to chronic liver inflammation. Padover shows the father of socialism distracting himself from the pain and humiliation of a carbuncle on the scrotum by quoting pornographic French verse in a letter to his German collaborator, Frederick Engels. More appealingly, there is a vignette of the whitebearded Marx trotting obediently on all fours...