Word: grinspoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grinspoon, author of a book on the psychological effects of marijuana said there was no evidence to support the theory that marijuana leads to more dangerous drugs. He referred to studies done by other physicians on the psychological effects of marijuana that attempt to disprove the idea that marijuana causes brain damage, psychosis, or chromosome damage...
Although marijuana has some bad effects, its main harm lies "not in the plant, but in the way a person's life can be ruined with a conviction for possession or jail imprisonment," Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, told a group of 125 students in the Science Center last night...
...Grinspoon was one of four panelists participating in a discussion on marijuana sponsored by the University Health Services' Students Consumer Council...
...issue of easing restrictions on cocaine will be discussed following a talk by a representative of the Carter administration who will present their position, one which "likely will not call for liberalization," Grinspoon said...
Also participating in the symposium will be James B. Bakalar '64, lecturer in Law who co-authored a book on cocaine with Grinspoon and Andrew T. Weil '63, a research associate in ethnopharmacology...