Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have just received a copy of the article in the Harvard Crimson on the hearings held before the Senate Criminal Justice Subcommittee to examine the health effects of marijuana. As you noted, the focus of the hearings was a narrow one--the physiological and psychological effects of marijuana, particularly on adolescents...
Generally speaking, I invited two groups of witnesses: medical scientists who have done research on the physiological effects of marijuana, and psychiatrists, teachers, and parents whose daily exposure to children who use the drug makes them experts on the psychological effects of marijuana. In your article, you quote a spokeswoman from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), who thought the parents and teachers were not qualified to testify at the hearings. In light of the evidence presented that indicates that the use of marijuana causes an "amotivational syndrome," I thought it appropriate for parents and teachers...
...Rahman. Variously portrayed as being from Oman, Lebanon or the United Arab Emirates, the impostor set up temporary residence in a 62-ft. yacht that docked in several posh Florida marinas. As the flag vessel of the FBI'S secret fleet, the cruiser, seized by customs officials from marijuana smugglers, was first named the Left Hand and later the Corsair. "It gleamed with the predictable varnished parquet decks, teak paneling-and a wide variety of eavesdropping and recording devices. The landlubberly FBI crew who manned it, however, promptly blew out one of its engines-and thereafter pretended...
...Charles M.C. Mathias (RMd.), who led the hearings, said yesterday witnesses had presented definite evidence during the hearing that marijuana was harmful to the brain, the lungs, and the reproductive system...
...National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) was not invited to testify for the hearings because "the purpose of the hearings was to bring out the medical and biological effects, not to discuss decriminalization," Charlie Borden, a Mathias aide, said yesterday...