Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University has said repeatedly that it must abide by Federal and state laws regarding drugs classified as narcotics, along with other categories of dangerous drugs. Last spring the Board suspended a freshman caught giving and selling marijuana to his friends...
...Farnsworth stressed that innocent experimentation can easily get out of control. He once again cautioned against the use of all drugs, including marijuana, which he said "impairs judgment and leads to self-defeating behavior...
...Graham B. Blaine Jr. '40, newly appointed Chief of Psychiatry (whose article on collegiate mores had touched off the 1963 "Harvard sex scandal" in the press), said that "we at the Health Services take a fairly casual attitude toward pot. We know that some Harvard students are using marijuana. We know they get it from townies. But it isn't harmful, and there's no evidence to show it's even as addictive as cigarettes." While he warned of the possibility that smoking marijuana could lead to involvement with more serious drugs, such as heroin, Dr. Blaine asserted that there...
While Dr. Farnsworth charged that "the crisis in drug traffic has been greatly exaggerated by people without accurate information," he strongly discouraged the use of any sort of drugs by students and pointed to a continual concern at the Health Center about their effects. He characterized marijuana as a harmful drug, which should be avoided for its own effects as well as the more serious drugs may exaggerate and complicate he said, is "a way-station on the road to a life different from that for which students come to a university. He warned of the serious danger that drugs...
...cases. Dr. Farnsworth urged an attempt to help students find "medical solutions" before they are implicated in legal or disciplinary action; no "spy system" would be set up to inform the authorities, he promised. Later in the spring, when the Administrative Board ousted a freshman for giving and selling marijuana to his friends, the Health Services were involved only after the case went to the Police--and then only in an attempt to assist the victims medically...