Word: grinspoon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cocaine's spell is by no means confined to the obviously troubled or the weak-willed. Free-basing in particular, says Harvard Psychiatry Professor Dr. Lester Grinspoon, "powerfully fastens itself on people." Elizabeth, 33, a Chicago hair stylist, had occasionally sniffed coke for a decade. In the fall of 1981, she tried free-basing and was soon spending whole days with her pipe. "Once I started that, all I wanted was more and more," she says, her voice still full of amazement at her fling. "That's what puzzles me. I'm the type of person...
...also mention complaints of "irregularities in the witness selection process." As soon as I decided to hold these hearings, my staff contacted several groups, including NORML, and asked for their recommendations for witnesses. NORML recommended four witnesses from its advisory board: Doctors Whipple, Grinspoon, Zinberg, and Ungerleider. We invited all of these experts to testify, and each of them in fact did testify. I think it is important to note that each of them stated that marijuana use is indeed injurious to health...
...Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of psychiatry at the University-affiliated Massachusetts Mental Health Center, said although he does not believe marijuana is safe there has been a lot of misleading or inaccurate research into its detrimental effects. These effects have been exaggerated, he added...
...Grinspoon objected to some of the evidence on the grounds that some researchers based their results on tests giving very large doses of THC to animals. These tests with animals produce unreliable results, he said...