Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under pressure from the National Oraganization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORMAL), the U.S. Army last week released a study by a Harvard psychiatrist indicating that regular use of marijuana has no significant harmful effects on humans...
...relaxation the cell members drank cheap wine, occasionally smoked marijuana and tumbled into bed with one another. Says Grathwohl: "There was supposed to be a political basis for having sex, but there didn't have to be much of one. After spending all day together in the political struggle, why not continue the political struggle in bed?" Indeed, so indiscriminate were their couplings, that members kept passing around a strain of gonorrhea that proved to be difficult to treat; they regarded it as a badge of honor...
Searching the sparsely furnished flat, law officers found a cat, some dirty clothes and dishes, and four more pistols, two sawed-off shotguns (both loaded), a store of ammunition and a two-foot high marijuana plant...
Earlier studies linking marijuana use to lowered sexual prowess have been largely discounted because they lacked proper controls. But the new study by researchers at the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation of St. Louis and the University of California at Los Angeles will be harder to dismiss because it was so carefully conducted. The researchers found 20 men who volunteered for the study and confined them to the metabolic research ward of U.C.L.A.'s Neuropsychiatric Institute. There they were forbidden to smoke cigarettes or drink coffee or alcohol, and given no marijuana for eleven days before their testosterone levels were...
...Robert Kolodny of the St. Louis group expressed doubt that casual marijuana use would have any serious effect on a man's sexual performance. But citing the study and more personalized interviews with 500 steady marijuana users who experienced sexual problems, he warned that those who smoke too much pot may find more than their inhibitions lowered when they get into bed. Their problem, however, need not be permanent. The study also showed that every subject's testosterone level-and ability to perform sexually-returned to normal two weeks after giving up the weed...