Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What is amazing about marijuana is how little is know about it," Dr. Andrew T. Weil '63 told an audience of about sixty students in CRIMSON yesterday. "Thousands and thousands of articles have been printed. Ninety-nine per cent are simply rumor and anecdotes...
Last year Dr. Weil, as a fourth-year Harvard Medical School Student, did the first marijuana experiment in the United States since 1947, and the only one completed under modern drug experiment procedure. "Everyone agrees that we need to do the research," Dr. Weil said, "--but somewhere else...
...Only two physical effects of marijuana were proven in the laboratory," Dr. Weil said. "Heart rate goes up at a moderate increase and the whites of your eyes...
...mental effects of marijuana, Dr. Weil said he was doing further experiments but that his first experiments showed the frequent user had '100 per cent compensation" in standard, reflex, and coordination tests...
...scientific problems inherent in testing marijuana are almost as difficult as the bureaucratic and prejudicial problems. Marijuana is different from all other drugs in its effects, Dr. Weil said. Most effects can be suppressed at will by the frequent user...