Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon Administration could prod Americans into looking anew at crime by asking that federal law be brought into line with sociological and psychological thinking?not to mention the facts of life. It should also research better ways of handling such problems as drunkenness and drug addiction. Marijuana laws, in the eyes of many young people the worst example of hypocrisy and repression, should be reexamined, with more research provided on marijuana's long-term effects...
...revolution, they mean protest, but they found that the word revolution shocks. The MC5 are taking a protest one step further to get attention." The MC5 clearly practice much of what they preach, as is shown by their string of arrests on charges of noisemaking, obscenity and possession of marijuana. Just as clearly, even their most aggressive songs are only that-songs, not bricks or guns. It may be that the first victim of their metaphorical revolution will be the overused word revolution itself...
...well-known" effect of marijuana did not occur. Many policemen say that they can spot a pothead by the dilation of his pupils. Not so, say the researchers. Or if so, the cause is not marijuana but the fact that potheads have done their smoking in dimly lit rooms, where the pupils naturally dilate. The tests also failed to confirm an assumption that pot causes an increase in appetite by lowering the level of blood sugar. The subjects showed no changes in blood sugar, so why marijuana smokers get so hungry remains a mystery...
...still inconsistent results. The men's performance was unaffected in a test that demands signaling when a particular letter appears in a group of letters flashed on a screen. Another test, in which numbered arithmetical symbols must be put in correspondingly numbered spaces, produced a paradoxical result. The marijuana novices did poorly on this for as long as H hours after smoking, but the habitual users improved their ordinary performance when under pot. A similar discrepancy appeared in a test requiring the subject to keep a stylus on a moving spot. The novices did badly, but the habitual users...
...marijuana users get little or no reaction the first time, and greater highs later? The phenomenon may represent, Weil and his colleagues suggest, a strange case of "reverse tolerance." But, as with many other things about marijuana, they cannot be sure...