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...Pharmacopeia didn't drop pot until its 1942 edition, the first published after cannabis was outlawed in 1937. Eventually most physicians began to view the drug as little more than a crude intoxicant. They tended to favor new-fashioned drugs that were refined by pharmaceutical firms into pure chemicals. Raw marijuana contains some 400 compounds...
...impurities. By the mid-'80s, the availability of Marinol and the escalating drug war had killed the state research programs. But Marinol turned out to have shortcomings. Because it enters the blood through the stomach, it doesn't work as fast as smoked marijuana. Because it is essentially pure THC, its users can get too high. "Marinol does tend to knock people out," says Abrams, the San Francisco doctor who has conducted trials with both Marinol and pot. "Our patients [taking Marinol] spent a lot of time in bed, and that wasn't the case with those smoking marijuana...
...Heirloom— adj. Middle English. When used in relation to produce, this term describes vegetables that are grown through an open pollination method. This means the plant seed is pure—passed down like a material heirloom—through cultivation of successive generations of pure-bred plants. This is differentiated from many vegetables of the grocery store variety, which are often the product of hybrid seeds. i.e.: Grendel’s delicate palate couldn’t handle vegetables that were the products of bastard seeds; he was on a strictly heirloom diet...
...youthful rebelliousness that took the form of the SDS movement. The excitements of that time, for me, had more to do with the music and the culture at large than the politics of Harvard University. There is a distinction between politics and unspecific acts of outrage for pure pleasure. There was a lot of admirable political passion and a lot of unadmirable self-righteousness...
...weren't able to detect signs of such programs, neither could the IAEA. And, he says, the experience taught him that "not seeing an indication of something does not automatically lead to the conclusion that there is nothing." That bit of linguistic tongue-twisting should please Washington; it's pure Rumsfeld...