Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walters said the reaction to drugs treated with PCP is similar to an overdose of Sominex, a commercial sleep-inducing drug...
...talking about a new wave of drug abuse at Harvard, but there is enough bad stuff being sold around metropolitan Cambridge that students should be very cautious about who they buy drugs from," Davis said...
Walters said that students coming to UHS are "talking about drugs again--more than the last two or three years," adding that this was a warning of trouble to come, especially if those who sell impure LSD, the most common street drug, step up their dealings...
...safety, most experts agree that only chronic, heavy users are at risk. No one has suggested that occasional use is harmful, and even in forms of medical treatment which require long-term ingestion of cannabis, it should be up to the doctor to decide if the risks of the drug exceed its benefits. Especially in the case of cancer patients, marijuana may be the only way that acceptable treatment can be endured, and therefore any risks which marijuana may carry with it should be acceptable. Even HEW, in their 1975 report, concluded: "Like everything else (marijuana) should be used...
Besides, the main reason for even bothering to pass the Controlled Substances Act in the first place was to keep drugs out of the hand of those who might abuse them. This goal has obviously not been met: over twenty million Americans have tried marijuana, and thirteen million use it regularly. It is not likely that legalizing marijuana as a prescription drug would result in any significant increase in use among non-patients; those who want it now do not have much trouble obtaining...