Word: pharmacopoeias
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...massage. Humes bases the validity of his technique on some ten years of experience applying the technique in "crash pad clinics" which he ran in cities as diverse as Rome and Princeton, New Jersey. His practice is part of a one-man campaign to return cannabis to the national Pharmacopoeia, the official list of drugs sanctioned for medical uses, from which cannabis was eliminated in 1937 when the Marijuana Tax Act was passed by Congress. The act eventually led to the nationwide illegalization of possession of the drug...
Humes argues that the restoration of marijuana to the Pharmacopoeia is particularly necessary in American society today in light of behavioral trends that have accelerated in recent years. "This nation is suffering from an epidemic of anxiety neurosis," Humes says, an epidemic that is "approaching pestilential proportions." In presenting his case for the reintroduction of marijuana in a medicinal context, Humes says that therapeutic methods using cannabis could be successfully applied to patients suffering from this modern neurosis. He draws a parallel between the symptoms of a heroin addict going through severe withdrawal and an individual suffering from an "acute...
...Period." He urged judges to jail offenders, then "throw away the key." After Anslinger helped push through the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937, arguing that "an epidemic of dope addiction" was crippling America's youth, marijuana was virtually banned from medical practice and deleted from the United States Pharmacopoeia. Anslinger denounced as "soft" all proposals to legalize drugs or to adopt British-model maintenance programs for dispensing heroin to registered addicts...
...American B-52 bombers and fighter-bombers actually increased to an astonishing 380 strikes each day. Yet such are the bewildering juxtapositions of the Indochina conflict that, at the same time, Henry Kissinger moved through Hanoi and Peking suggesting plans to heal the wounds of war through a pharmacopoeia of economic...
Physicians in ancient times attempted to treat chronic headaches with remedies that owed more to folklore than pharmacopoeia. Some believed in trepanning, or opening the skull, to let out the attacking demons. Others prescribed elixirs of cow's brain and goat dung. American Indians used beaver testes, a sounder idea than it seems. The preparation has since been deter mined to contain a salicylate similar to regular aspirin...