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...drug is illegal, researchers can, under strict controls, use marijuana experimentally, and recent evidence has confirmed what doctors thought over a century ago--that marijuana holds great promise for medical use. It has been found that THC can cause up to a 40 per cent reduction in interocular pressure, a cause of glaucoma and blindness. It is more effective than most drugs currently used for this purpose, and avoids the serious side effects that accompany use of conventional drugs...

Author: By Mark Helin, | Title: Reefer Madness | 1/27/1978 | See Source »

...WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT, HOWEVER, THESE SOMEWHAT MINOR ERRORS: DR. JULIAN GUNZBURG IS NO OPTICIAN BUT AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST WHOSE CHIEF ACTIVITY AS AN M.D. IS EYE SURGERY ; THE 3-D EXPERT . . . WHOM YOU QUOTE AS SAYING THAT THE FIRST 3-D PICTURES WERE PHOTOGRAPHED WITH A 4-INCH INTEROCULAR, IS IN ERROR. MOST NATURAL VISION EQUIPMENT USES APPROXIMATELY A 3-INCH INTEROCULAR, SOME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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