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...current issue of Scientific America, Lester Grinspoon. associate professor of Clinical Psychology, calls the public attitude toward marijuana "charged with a hyperemotional bias...
...Grinspoon attributes the popular prejudices against grass to the propaganda campaign waged by the Federal Burean of Narcoties during the 1930's and to America's puritanical attitude toward the pursuit of pleasure...
...Marijuana's effect in producing a state of introspection and bodily passivity is repellent to a cultural tradition that prizes activity, aggressiveness and advancement." Grinspoon says in his article...
...Lester Grinspoon, associate clinical professor of Psychiatry, said the new proposal represents "a more rational approach to the problem." But he criticized the administration for being "totally oriented toward making criminals of marijuana users...
Though Dr. Grinspoon did not do any clinical research for the study, he included all available papers and reports in his work. The study will be published this fall in the International Journal of Psychiatry...