Word: mikuriya
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...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...