Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three mandatory meetings for Radcliffe freshmen initiated by the House presidents and closed to all non-students, Drs. Preston K. Munter, Paul A. Walters, and Graham B. Blaine acknowledged that many healthy people do smoke pot occasionally as an "experiment" or "for fun," and that for most of these people it is "not serious" physically or mentally...
...could be smoking anything from horse manure to pot laced with DMT (a sustance similar in effect to LSD)" Blaine told his East House audience yesterday...
...pot made from the pollen of the cannabis plant is fifty times more powerful than pot made from the stem," said Walters at the South House meeting on Thursday. "The pot around Harvard now," Munter told East House on Wednesday, "is from the top of the plant, and is stronger that what was around last year, which was made primarily from the stems...
Reform, Not a Wipeout. Rebutting such pro-pot statements, Dr. Donald Louria, chairman of the New York State Council on Drug Addiction, testified that marijuana can induce various psychoses, undermine already unstable personalities, and cause acute intoxication. He also directly contradicted Dr. Fort and contended that pot does tend to lead to use of other drugs. Both sides plan to field at least a dozen more experts before the hearing is over. Only then will the judge decide on Oteri's motion to declare the Massachusetts marijuana law unconstitutional on grounds that it is "irrational and arbitrary," and that...
Whatever the finding on Oteri's motion, antimarijuana laws will almost certainly not be wiped out by the current attack. In fact, only a few of marijuana's lawyer supporters favor untrammeled availability of pot. Most simply want to ease what they regard as Draconian penalties. Some reform does seem inevitable since even Food and Drug Administration Chief James Goddard agrees that the penalties for users are too severe...