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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 said he is concerned about what happens to people who are imprisoned for using cocaine. "That too is harmful," he added...
...think ultimately cocaine is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco," Grinspoon said. However, he is concerned about the potential for abuse if cocaine is legalized and can be bought at drug stores for $30 an ounce instead of the current street price of about $2000, Grinspoon added...
...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...