Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply boils down to the fact that this time we have to get our anticipated points and pick up some where the dope sheets indicate pessimism." said head track coach Bill McCurdy of this afternoon's meet at 12:30 p.m. against Army. "Somebody (make that plural) for Harvard has to do something that doesn't figure...
THERE'S finally a book about dope that you can unreservedly recommend to your parents. For that matter, Marihuana Reconsidered should be read by legislators, health officials, PTAs-and anyone else whose views on marihuana are based on misinformation and institutionalized myths. Dr. Grin-spoon's book is a comprehensive review of the important literature on marihuana; using a critical, scientific approach. Grinspoon evaluates the marihuana experience, discounts the credibility of the anti-dope crusaders, and concludes that marihuana should be a socially-and legally-permissible drug...
MARIHUANA users will find parts of this book fascinating as an insight into personal experiences with the drug: Grinspoon's analysis of cannabis chemistry explains how different types of dope-grown in different climates, harvested in different circumstances-may induce different physiological responses. The stoned experience will then have a great deal of variance due to the chemical composition of weed from a particular crop...
Different kinds of experience in response to different settings are not so easily explained physiologically, but Grinspoon is a psychiatrist and he offers an intriguing analysis of the psychological variants involved in dope taking. Much of the scare literature charges that marihuana causes psychoses, psychic dependence, or "personality deterioration." Grinspoon refutes these charges, and even suggests that the psychological problem may belong to the anti-dope crowd, attributing the zeal for prohibition to "displacement" and anxiety symptoms common to a stressful society...
...user rarely gets high. Grinspoon reviews the literature dealing with the first experience and considers both the physiological and the psychological angles. Physiologically, there is the possibility of a "pharmacological sensitization" that takes place, a phenomenon which could account for the so-called reverse tolerance-the fact that less dope is needed to get high by a regular user. Psychologically, a learning process may be taking place where the user learns to recognize himself as having peculiar sensations and as "having fun" while doing it. The sociogenic aspect of marihuana use-its proliferation in group situations-introduces the sociology...