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...Grinspoon, Peele and other medical leaders object to the hospital's decision because of McCaffrey's confrontational attitude toward the medical community...
...response to the hospital's choice, Associate Professor of Psychiatry Lester Grinspoon, a well-known addiction researcher, has severed his ties with Cambridge Hospital's Norman E. Zinberg Center for Addiction Studies...
...section discussing the motivations of the average user, Grinspoon makes some interesting correlations between the "intellectual" atmosphere of a college and the rate of drug use among its students--they're supposedly directly proportional...
...Grinspoon's account of the drug's effects are both scarier and, somehow, more prosaic: "Micropsia and macropsia (or megaplosia) have been frequently reported [as well as] the sensation that [people and objects] are rushing toward [the user] at tremendous speed, increasing in size as they approach." He doesn't mention that this peculiar sensation can happen stone-cold-sober when trying to get an autograph at Disney World. I was seven. I was so excited. I walked right up to the Mouse and thrust a pen in his face. Suddenly, I heard a disconcertingly masculine voice emanating from...
Unfortunately, much of the prose suffers from an acute seventies tinge. Describing the typical user's reaction, Grinspoon writes. marijuana "heightens (or so they assert) capacity to feel, to appreciate, to perceive, AND TO SHARE." The Brady undertones elude poor Grinspoon, but the subtext of 70s culture adds to the book's entertainment value. This increases with the level of THC in your system...