Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday--Fifteen Harvard Summer School students are expelled after Marshall R. Pihl '55, summer school director, discovers marijuana plants growing in the annual class-project archaeological dig outside Weld Hall. The course's head, Visiting Professor of Botanical anthropology Lawrence McKinney, taking a summer break from running his THC firm, says he is "shocked and disgusted... Really...
...FACTS ARE THAT McKinney has patented a process of extracting THC--pot's active agent--from the marijuana plant; that the Food and Drug Administration has determined that THC can be sold to chemotherapy patients as an anti-nausea drug; and that McKinney subsequently established the Cannabis Corporation to extract and market the THC. All legal. All moral. All seemingly beneficial. Cannabis should be no more contemptuously labelled "a pot company" than should the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture synthetic...
...Harvard officials recognize the truth that the Cannabis Corporation is engaged in no mischievous or unethical undertaking, then they lose the force of any moral argument for disposal of its stock. Even if they stubbornly assert that the potential for abuse is too great, or that somehow the marijuana might end up in the wrong hands or be used for sinister purposes, tactical considerations still suggest against rejecting a 15 percent interest in the firm. After all, presumably Harvard can better influence use of the THC from within the industry than as an outsider...
...three students were identified as Charles J. Allen, Gregory Valentini, and Jeffrey H. Johnson. Allen and Johnson were charged with distribution of cocaine, and Valentini was charged with distributing marijuana, Larrabee said...
Only 40 percent of Princetonians said they had used marijuana before entering college, and only 10 percent more said they had used it since. Both figures represent a decline since 1983, when the last such poll was done...