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...biggest raid yet in 1981, DEA agents found $200,000 worth of hydroponic pot in a warehouse just outside of San Fransisco two weeks ago. To their dismay, the crop was not only growing faster than normal, but it contained, according to the DEA, "at least twice as much THC tetrahy-drocannibol--pot's active ingredient) as the best Colombran grass...
Grinspoon objected to some of the evidence on the grounds that some researchers based their results on tests giving very large doses of THC to animals. These tests with animals produce unreliable results, he said...
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...