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...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...
...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...
...Grinspoon was one of four panelists participating in a discussion on marijuana sponsored by the University Health Services' Students Consumer Council...