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...South Africa-related. But Harvard officials found the issues in this latest case so clear and the ethical argument for divestment so compelling, that they deemed quick and decisive action imperative. Apartheid may be a subject for equivocation, but surely the University must not condone the legal use of THC by chemotherapy patients to curb nausea...
...FACTS ARE THAT McKinney has patented a process of extracting THC--pot's active agent--from the marijuana plant; that the Food and Drug Administration has determined that THC can be sold to chemotherapy patients as an anti-nausea drug; and that McKinney subsequently established the Cannabis Corporation to extract and market the THC. All legal. All moral. All seemingly beneficial. Cannabis should be no more contemptuously labelled "a pot company" than should the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture synthetic THC...
...that the potential for abuse is too great, or that somehow the marijuana might end up in the wrong hands or be used for sinister purposes, tactical considerations still suggest against rejecting a 15 percent interest in the firm. After all, presumably Harvard can better influence use of the THC from within the industry than as an outsider...
...preferred crop today is sinsemilla (a seedless marijuana produced through intensive cultivation of only the female plant) that has a very high concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient. Sinsemilla produces a heady euphoria and sells for around $2,000 per lb. This is roughly the yield from a single plant. The sinsemilla produced by U.S. growers is so prized that seeds have been smuggled into Mexico and Colombia to enrich crops there...
Behavioral Effects. The principal active element in marijuana, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), like alcohol, impairs motor coordination, the ability to follow a moving object and to detect a flash of light. Since these functions are necessary for safe driving, the report notes, their impairment "may suggest a substantial risk." The effects may last four to eight hours after the time the user feels a "high," unlike alcohol, which is more quickly metabolized. Marijuana hampers short-term memory, slows learning and produces distortions of judgment, including reactions of panic and confusion. Consequently, there is special concern since much of the heavy...