Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dana Farnsworth, head of the UHS and co-author of the medical report on drugs, tagged the amount of marijuana use in the University at 15 percent. Interviews with proctors, students, and UHS psychiatrists indicate that Farnsworth's estimate is probably low. Two extensive surveys at Yale have put the percentage there at 25 to 30 per cent. And at Princeton, a Press Club survey showed 15 per cent...
There is far less use of LSD than marijuana at Harvard. Farnsworth says usage is at around five per cent, and most proctors and students agree. Perhaps because some of its bad effects are so well publicized, LSD is certainly not found in abundance at Harvard. One freshman may have told why when he said, "I used acid a lot before I came here, and I'm going to use it next year when I leave. But there's no sense using it here. I'd just be flipped out all the time. I wouldn't want...
...older generation. The Farnsworth statement, too, appeared intemperate, just filled with scary stories and no facts to back up anything. A teaching fellow, who helped write the narcotics section of the President's Crime Report, attacked the medical report in a letter to the Crimson. The Farnsworth Report says "marijuana produces significant dependence, to a serious degree" and can "of course, lead into addiction to narcotics." The President's Report disagrees with both arguments...
...freshman told his proctor, "If they have to make up all these stories about car accidents and the lacing of pot with stronger stuff, I'm convinced that there is no case against marijuana. They're grasping at straws...
...Boston attorney challenged the marijuana laws this May in Suffolk Superior Court on the grounds that pot is neither harmful nor addictive. He seems to have a good case. Dr. Norman Zinberg of Harvard cites in a recent article in The Public Interest several reports--Allentuck and Bowman, Murphy, and LaGuardia--which contend that pot is harmless...