Word: thc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SANTE FE, New Mexico--The National Institute of Drug Abuse yesterday sent capsules of federally-grown marijuana to four New Mexican cancer patients. A pioneering state law now permits use of the drug and its main component, THC, to ease side effects of chemotherapy...
...have a hint--there is something in THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) which alleviates the pressure involved in glaucoma. The problem we must research now is how to use the drug to treat glaucoma without its psychological side effects," Dr. Douglas Gaasterland, a glaucoma specialist at NEI, said yesterday...
...research will involve isolating from the approximately 11 sub-compounds of THC those which affect patients' glaucoma symptoms apart from those which cause more familiar effects...
According to their campaign literature, the Hedonists believe in "constant physical contact between genders, oral surgery for Jimmy Carter, total use of beer, wine, thai sticks, ganja cigarettes, quaaludes, THC, LSD as the Bill of Rights," among other points. They insist they are very serious about the campaign...
...costs, some drug distributors switched to lacing the drug with synthetic THC and are now apparently using PCP, reactions to which are very unpredictable...