Word: paraquat
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...Paraquat testing has been challenged by the Public Health Department, which claims that the plan is illegal, The Boston Globe reported yesterday...
Harvard will not participate in the City of Cambridge's efforts to gain an official license to test for Paraquat poisoning in marijuana, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday...
...researchers whether or not the panic is warranted. Some experts contend that HEW's warning was based on insufficient data. One specialist at the National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta pointed out that there were as yet no verified reports of illness in the U.S. due to paraquat-sprayed grass. Some experts speculated that there might be less harm in smoking paraquat than in swallowing the chemical in liquid form. "There's no doubt that paraquat causes pulmonary fibrosis when taken orally," observes a California lung physiologist, Dr. Jeff Golden, "but there...
Laboratories throughout the West and Midwest, the regions where most Mexican grass is consumed, reported they were overwhelmed with requests to test marijuana samples. In Los Angeles, Disc Jockey Jim Ladd urged members of his post-midnight audience to telephone President Carter with their complaints about paraquat; within an hour, almost a thousand Southern California calls flooded into the White House. More than 5,000 marijuana samples were mailed to PharmChem laboratories in Palo Alto, Calif., where 22 new employees have been hired to keep up with the testing demand; last week the lab reported traces of paraquat...
Even so, the potential for widespread harm prompted demands that something be done about paraquat, notwithstanding the fact that marijuana itself is illegal. In Washington, Senator Percy called for a temporary halt to Mexico's marijuana spraying (but not its poppy spraying; the poppies are used to make heroin). Said he: "The U.S. Government has not fulfilled its responsibility to stop poisoning our own citizens." Dr. Peter Bourne, White House special assistant for health issues, indicated last week that he was urging Mexico to switch from paraquat to some less toxic marijuana spray. Also under consideration: coloring sprays...