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...privileges to persons who have not first proved themselves to be potentially responsible voting members. In many ways, the Law School has become a testing ground for the rest of the University-the faculty should, in consideration of this, at least give the Governance Committee's interesting, and essentially harmless, recommendations a chance for survival by adopting the committee's report tomorrow...
...prophet who preached a gospel of orgasm. But many colleagues in Europe put him down as a pornographic charlatan and Communist crackpot. After Reich moved to the U.S., a federal court handed him a two-year sentence for defying a court order that forbade shipment of his notorious but harmless "orgone box" across state lines.* Yet now, 14 years after his death in the Lewisburg (Pa.) prison, Reich is recognized as a pioneer of the nonverbal, body-oriented therapies that are fashionable in psychiatry today. Reprinted in paperback, his main works (The Function of the Orgasm, Character Analysis, The Mass...
Marijuana is a generally harmless intoxicant that produces serious psychological effects only in users who are emotionally disturbed to begin with. So. at least, runs the prevailing view, held by potheads and professional researchers alike. Last week, a challenge to that idea came from two Philadelphia psychiatrists who believe that regular pot smoking can cause grave psychiatric ills, including psychosis, even in young people who previously were stable...
...lost his train of thought. Another A student in high school became "apathetic, disoriented and depressed" in college two months after starting on cannabis. Confiding to a college counselor that he thought marijuana was making it hard for him to think straight, he was "reassured that the drug was harmless." He gave up pot nevertheless, and not long afterward regained his motivation and ability-which suggests that the drug had been responsible for his problems...
Significantly, however, Grinspoon himself opposes the use of marijuana by youngsters. His reason: Many ordinarily harmless drugs can set off a psychosis in people with shaky egos-and in adolescence, a shaky ego is a normal condition of life...