Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eyes. The first thing that became clear was that those who had never smoked marijuana before got no reaction in their first session on pot. This tallies with the experience of many unscientific potheads; they achieved no "high" the first time. The only exception to this was a man who had expressed a desire to get high?and did so quickly. He became euphoric and laughed continuously. Yet one subject who had said that he did not intend to get high never did, even in successive sessions that included heavy doses of marijuana...
...average (only a small fraction of what occurs at orgasm), while habitual users, who tended to start off with a slower heartbeat, showed a greater but not alarming increase. There was no significant increase in breathing rates. The tests confirmed the widely reported "redeye" effect of pot: the small blood vessels in the whites of the eyes became dilated, and the higher the dose the greater the dilation...
...spot a pothead by the dilation of his pupils. Not so, say the researchers. Or if so, the cause is not marijuana but the fact that potheads have done their smoking in dimly lit rooms, where the pupils naturally dilate. The tests also failed to confirm an assumption that pot causes an increase in appetite by lowering the level of blood sugar. The subjects showed no changes in blood sugar, so why marijuana smokers get so hungry remains a mystery...
...letters flashed on a screen. Another test, in which numbered arithmetical symbols must be put in correspondingly numbered spaces, produced a paradoxical result. The marijuana novices did poorly on this for as long as H hours after smoking, but the habitual users improved their ordinary performance when under pot. A similar discrepancy appeared in a test requiring the subject to keep a stylus on a moving spot. The novices did badly, but the habitual users got better...
...tests confirmed the blues player's notion that time seems to be stretched under the influence of pot. Some subjects who had previously been able to gauge a five-minute interval with fair accuracy guessed that the same interval was ten minutes after they had had their smokes. One subject said: "I realize why they took our watches. There was a sense of the past disappearing, as happens when you're driving too long without sleeping. It was the same tonight with eating a sandwich. I'd look down and discover that I'd just taken a bite...