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...very glad to hear that Dr. Farnsworth had "no ghost writer from the F.D.A." to help him in writing the University Health Services' statement on marihuana. However, it seems that he did rely rather heavily upon another source...
...following is from The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (a book which Dr. Farnsworth mentioned, in his letter to the CRIMSON, as a source of information about marihnana...
...following statement was released by the University Health Services last Friday. It was signed by Dana L. Farnsworth, M.D., UHS Director, and by Curtis Proud, M.D., Chief of Medicine...
...statement of Drs. Farnsworth and Prout on marijuana (I'll leave the LSD part to someone who knows more about that drug) is a mixture of some fact, considerable nonsense, and a great deal more exaggeration and innuendo. It reads like a handout from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (ghostwritten maybe?) and is an inexcusable document for a medical unit that is supposedly well staffed, particularly one that has access to a decent medical library. Some points...
...many youngsters are taking drugs, I think, is that they have discovered that this is one of those areas about which the older generation has made it a point to lie consistently. It is like the war in Vietnam: the bandwagon just doesn't sell. Statements like those of Farnsworth and Prout do nothing but stroke the sentiments of the elderly and further alienate the young. There are some very good reasons why college students should avoid the drug scenes that so seductively beckon, but the authors of this report haven't managed to touch on one of them...