Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instances marijuana has produced psychoses, as does LSD." This, I presume, is to suggest some similarity in such transient or toxic psychoses. I've seen no evidence for such. I know of two psychotic episodes following administration of marijuana, one excessive, taken orally, both lasting under 20 minutes, neither with any after effects. Such cases are so rare as to be almost negligible...
...automobile accidents." Where? I've heard some reports about intoxicated driving in central Africa, but nothing from this country. This summer, while I worked on the drug study done for the President's Crime Commission, I looked for such data, but turned up none. It is true that marijuana is bad for drivers, probably almost half as bad as a couple of drinks, but for some reason there isn't much evidence around to show it is a cause of motor vehicle accidents in this country...
...Marijuana does not produce physical addiction, but it does produce significant dependence, to a serious degree." Wow. Even if the prose weren't so bad this would be an objectionable sentence. For one thing, it's untrue. Marijuana no more "produces" dependence that driving fast does; people may get hung up or stung on either, but the chemical or car can hardly be blamed, certainly not in the sense that heroin or alcohol can. Marijuana simply does not produce that kind of dependency...
...social influences surrounding the use of marijuana also encourage experimentation with other drugs, notably L.S.D., and, of course, may lead into addiction to narcotics." The part about access to LSD may be true, but the part about the narcotics (notice the "of course," immediately hedged by a "may") is bunk, first order. This is an old warhorse, one first heaved up in the great pot hysteria of the thirties; it has never been demonstrated scientifically, there is considerable evidence against it. If you talk to many junkies (I have) you find that many have used marijuana, true, but they...
...whole section of the report that deals with marijuana is loaded: "Ideas are rapid, disconnected, and uncontrollable ... At other times there may be a 'down' with moodiness, fear of death, and panic .... Space may seem expanded, the head may feel swollen and extremities..." That sounds to me more like one martini to many...