Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administrative Committee warned against the harmful physical and psychological effects of barbituates, amphetamines, marijuana, and the hallucinogens, which include mescaline, psilocybin and LSD--commonly known as pot, bennies, pep pills, goof balls, yellow jackets etc. The statement warns against the psychological dependence which some drugs induce, as well as "suicide attempts, suicides, and long term emotional damage as severe as apparently irreversible psychotic breaks...
Although he is equally opposed to the use of both the psychedelics and marijuana, Farnsworth differentiated between the dangers posed by the two. Marijuana, unlike LSD, is not intrinsically harmful, he noted, "but its danger lies in the peer group pressure to go on to other things. The harm is not to the brain, but to the individual...
...arrested at La Guardia Airport upon his return from Toronto, Canada, for failing to comply with a law which requires narcotics convicts to register with Customs. He was convicted last spring in Laredo, Texas, of transporting and concealing marijuana...
...court, Leary gave his occupation as "president of a religious organization-- the League of Spiritual Discovery, which communes by means of LSD, peyote, and marijuana--and he promptly began to proselytize...
...work in hospitals, conservation, the Peace Corps or "a learning corps," and should exempt "philosophical and political as well as religious" objectors. The convention opposed as "undemocratic" the draft's 2-S classification, which defers students. Another resolution urged the repeal of laws banning the sale of marijuana...