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...formative years, when they should be gaining the education and experiences upon which to build their future lives. The use of the drug allows them to avoid the resolution of their underlying problems rather than to confront them realistically. While marijuana is not physically addictive in the sense that heroin is, it can cause psychological dependence." Moreover, "although no definitive link of efficient causality can be demonstrated with scientific exactness at present, the coincidence between addiction to 'hard' narcotics, crime and promiscuity is too great to be passed off as merely accidental...
Tauro agreed that "marijuana does not cause physical addiction as does heroin or other hard narcotics," but said "there was ample and compelling testimony that its use causes psychological dependence...
...discussed this at home," said Goddard. "I would object in terms of the law today and any possible long-term effects." Discounting the suggestion made by some authorities that pot leads to an addiction to other, stronger drugs, Goddard explained that while "it is true most heroin users have smoked marijuana, it is also true that most heroin users have drunk milk. I have seen no proof that there is any connection...
Clouds & Sparks. The attractions are obvious enough. Heroin produces a drowsy, drifting effect; LSD contorts and sometimes expands the mind. Methedrine, which is a harmless stimulant when taken orally in small doses, turns into a kind of mega-pep dose when it is concentrated and injected. It acts on the central nervous system in such a way as to give what the three medical researchers, who have studied addicts at the California Rehabilitation Center at Corona, describe as a "sudden generalized, overwhelming, pleasureful feeling." With somewhat more enthusiasm, a female speeder says that "it fills you inside, like this churning...
Many of the arguments which are presented against marihuana are specious. It is, of course, absurd to argue that because most users of heroin first used marihuana, marihuana is proven to be a usual preliminary step to heroin addiction. One might as well say that because most users of heroin once imbibed milk, milk leads to heroin addiction. The true inquiry is what percentage of marihuana users become heroin addicts, and as to that we seem to have no reliable information...