Word: grinspoon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current issue of Scientific America, Lester Grinspoon. associate professor of Clinical Psychology, calls the public attitude toward marijuana "charged with a hyperemotional bias...
...Grinspoon attributes the popular prejudices against grass to the propaganda campaign waged by the Federal Burean of Narcoties during the 1930's and to America's puritanical attitude toward the pursuit of pleasure...
...Marijuana's effect in producing a state of introspection and bodily passivity is repellent to a cultural tradition that prizes activity, aggressiveness and advancement." Grinspoon says in his article...
...Grinspoon also attacks popular conceptions about the effect of grass on its users. Research. he agrees, has not yet produced any proof that smoking pot leads to violent behavior, sexual debauchery, or even to harder drugs. and there have been studies that give evidence to the contrary...
...Grinspoon feels that the greatest charge against the popular drug has been that it may lead to depression or psychosis. However. he says, most of the studies conducted have been conducted on persous with a history of mental illness...