Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Practically everybody, whether doctor or layman, pothead or puritan, has been expressing dogmatic opinions for years about the effects of marijuana on its users. It therefore came as a surprise last week when a team of Harvard and Boston University investigators reported that they had just conducted the first truly scientific tests ever made on the subject. Their findings, which appear in Science magazine, confirm some popular ideas about marijuana's effects and expose others as completely false. The drug, the investigators concluded, "appears to be a relatively mild intoxicant, with minor, real, shortlived effects." It seems to have...
...explain his interest in investigating marijuana's diverse effects, he cited the research recorded in the American Journal of Psychiatry's September, 1968 Supplement. This supplement reports experimental studies of marijuana and the results of practicing physicians...
...research conclusions correlate heavy use of marijuana with certain adverse effects. It also reports the spontaneous recurrence of marijuana effect in some users...
...would be greatly appreciated if you would develop some case histories based on any experience you have had with patients who have had unfortunate experiences in their use of marijuana. These should be quite short, possibly one-half page or less, but should be changed to make absolutely certain that no individuals privacy is threatened...
...These case histories will serve several purposes, the two most important being to aid in answering our critics who say we have no data that marijuana is harmful and secondly for possible use with a National Institute of Mental Health committee which will outline the reasons for and against the legalization of marijuana...