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...that a good deal of discretion is left to the individual nurse, that there is no flat policy of refusing everyone who claims to have smoked, but that the nurse is instructed to be on the lookout for habitual drug types and, particularly, for anyone who might have used heroin, which, he pointed out, may be associated with hepatitis, which can be transmitted in the blood. He said that marijuana, like nicotine, did leave a residue in the blood for long periods of time and that the residue had unknown effects...
...acknowledged that the known negative effects of alcohol were greater than the known effects of marijuana. I have so far been unable to check his assertion about a long-lasting residue. I do not feel it is appropriate for me to comment here on whether I look like a heroin user, but I will point out that the method currently employed by the Mass. Red Cross to screen heroin users is not fool-proof: the potential donor need only...
Psychologically more destructive than heroin-and now more available than marijuana-amphetamines are in many ways the most treacherous of all abused drugs. Despite the threat they pose, a recent survey by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs revealed that 92% of the speed and pep pills in illicit traffic were manufactured by legitimate U.S. drug firms...
...recommendations fall short of reforms sought by some in the Administration. There would still be no distinction between marijuana and such potent contraband as heroin. But they allow the judge the latitude to grant leniency in marijuana cases. Federal officials say that their proposals are more flexible than drug laws in about 35 states...
...addition, marijuana would be redefined as an "hallucinogenic." It is now considered a "hard drug." along with such others as heroin and cocaine...