Word: grinspoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grinspoon said, "the Commission's view that marihuana is a fad strikes me as more an expression of wishful thinking than empirical reality...
...Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of Psychiatry and author of Marihuana Reconsidered, said yesterday that he wrote the critique because the report "destroys myths but also creates...
...critique, Grinspoon says that "the only way I can reconcile some of the inconsistencies in the report is to believe that its policy recommendations derive not solely from medical, psychological, and social consideration, but as well from the political reality...
...Grinspoon, who has spent five years researching 'marihuana, said yesterday the report might help people understand that the drug is not addictive. Eighty per cent of the nation last year believed it was, according to the Congressional Record...
Significantly, however, Grinspoon himself opposes the use of marijuana by youngsters. His reason: Many ordinarily harmless drugs can set off a psychosis in people with shaky egos-and in adolescence, a shaky ego is a normal condition of life...