Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). "That Was the Lower East Side" reviews the history of New York City's melting pot from...
...widely permissive view of LSD, marihuana, and virtually anything else that offers a flight into funsville. Since it helps to have a little intellectual support, the more anxiously hip members of the Now Generation will find some comfort in this one-sided propaganda volume in praise of pot...
...Guardia Report, written by responsible scientists and sociologists (though heavily attacked by the A.M.A. at the time). The report concluded that marihuana is not addictive, deleterious to mental or physical health, or the cause of psychotic or criminal behavior. Some more recent medical and statistical evidence also suggests that pot smokers are euphoric and generally agreeable under the influence, suffer no hangovers, and are no more likely to turn into drug addicts than are users of whisky or tobacco. On the other hand, marihuana can precipitate a psychosis in unstable people, and some medical men believe that such people...
...that the public, law enforcers and physicians are so dead set against it? An intriguing though far from convincing reply to that question comes from Dr. H.B.M. Murphy in a 1963 article in the United Nations' "Bulletin on Narcotics." What puts people off, says Murphy thoughtfully, is that pot users become passivists in a world that values activity. "In Anglo-Saxon cultures," he writes, "inaction is looked down on and often feared, whereas overactivity, aided by alcohol or independent of alcohol, is considerably tolerated despite the social disturbance produced...
...some kind of concerted mad rush on the part of New Yorkers to get unemployed and thus get unemployment insurance. Buckley decides the answer is to make life impossible for the jobless. Stripped of its appeal, unemployment will then lose its clientele, and presto! A chicken in every pot. The same, naturally, goes for unwed mothers, who sin in the hope of higher welfare benefits. Take away the carrot, Buckley says, and matters will right themselves...