Word: mikuriya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes and relaxation to changed perception. It is not an aphrodisiac, but it can lower inhibitions and intensify sexual pleasure. It seems to make many users temporarily passive, in contrast to alcohol, which frequently releases aggression. "Everyone knows about barroom brawls," says Oakland, California Psychiatrist and Drug Researcher Tod Mikuriya, "but have you ever heard of a pot-room brawl?" Of course, it can be argued that there are worse things than barroom brawls...
However, the time for a choice is already past, argues a growing band of responsible advocates of legalization, among them Psychiatrist Mikuriya and Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan. They do not argue that marijuana is harmless, and they are seriously concerned that the open sale of pot would almost certainly increase its use and abuse, producing greater numbers of "pot lushes" and even pot skid rows. They defend ultimate legalization only because they believe that its probable costs to society are outweighed by the disadvantages of continued prohibition. They point out that as long as marijuana is forbidden it will...
...Withdrawal. One who has intensively studied the 100-years record is Dr. Tod H. Mikuriya, now a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco but last year a consultant on cannabis research to the National Institute of Mental Health. All the evidence from a century's medicinal use, says Dr. Mikuriya, shows that the drug is not a narcotic in the medical sense. It is not physiologically addicting, so there are no withdrawal pangs. There is little or no buildup of tolerance that would lead to the use of increasing doses, as is the case with the true narcotics...