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...with any social habit, all kinds of people use drugs for all kinds of reasons. One obvious age-old drive is the simple impulse to feel good. Like the neolithic men who got high on fermented berries and the Assyrians who sucked opium lozenges, explains Dr. Sidney Cohen of NIMH, a noted drug researcher, today's drug takers "are bored, in pain, frustrated, unable to enjoy, or alienated, and some plant or substance carries with it the promise of oblivion, surcease, quietude, togetherness, or euphoria." Says one Chicago college student who smokes
...students who use marijuana, NIMH Director Yolles estimates that 65% quit after experimenting one to ten times; 25% become social users. Only around 10% become habitual users ?a far cry from the level projected by alarmists, but still a serious number. Those in the last category, many of them subject to the depression and discouragement of slum life, often...
...expenditures of police time and money, pot smoking is so widespread that there are roughly 25 times as many users as there are places to hold them in all the nation's prisons. The chances of being jailed for using pot are probably less than one in 1,000, NIMH's Dr. Cohen estimates; only about 1% of those arrested on marijuana charges are brought to trial and convicted...
...marijuana is dangerous. Because it is dangerous, they are reluctant to allow work to be done on it. Because no work is done, people think of it as dangerous." Six months ago NIMH began growing its own marijuana for researchers on 23 acres of land owned by the University of Mississippi. The Institute is currently funding around 50 marijuana research projects, but only a few of them involve experimentation with human beings. Social Psychiatrist Joel Hochman of the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute goes so far as to charge that "the Government is giving legitimate researchers such a hassle because they...
Garmezy now heads the Center for Personality Research at the University of Minnesota. In the past, he has directed work in psychological treatment at Duke University and at the National Institute of Mental Health's training center in Washington. While at NIMH, he received a lifelong Research Career Award to subsidize his investigations...