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...Physicians at Columbia University discover the first direct evidence of cellular damage in humans from marijuana...
...initial October 5 screening was cancelled. Fifty students had protested showing the film, citing its portrayal of blacks and glorification of the Ku Klux Klan. 20 - Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Dana L. Farnworth, Oliver Professor of Hygiene Emeritus and former Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, criticizes current drug laws making marijuana users liable for punishment and recommends that possessing less than one ounce of marijuana no longer be a criminal offense. 23 - Harvard rips Yale, 21-16, in an exciting come-from-behind victory at Harvard that ruins Yale's dream...
Ecstasy remains a niche drug. The number of people who use it once a month remains so small--less than 1% of the population--that ecstasy use doesn't register in the government's drug survey. (By comparison, 5% of Americans older than 12 say they use marijuana once a month, and 1.8% use cocaine.) But ecstasy use is growing. Eight percent of U.S. high school seniors say they have tried it at least once, up from 5.8% in 1997; teen use of most other drugs declined in the late '90s. Nationwide, customs officers have already seized more ecstasy this...
...ways similar to the Beat Generation--and it's being misinterpreted in the same way," says Greg Harrison, director of the new movie Groove, a fictional take on the rave scene. "In the case of the Beats, a complex and subtle ethos was distilled by pop culture to marijuana, goatees and poetry. I would argue that just as there was much more to the Beats, there's something more subtle and interesting about the rave scene...
...continuing alcohol or drug use. "Substance abuse is very significant," says Nieburg. "One of the first things kids will do to try to make their pain go away is to try and medicate it. They don't go to the doctor and get Prozac or Zoloft. They use marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, ecstasy, PCP, LSD. They want to get away from the pain...