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...more coal and oil to meet the demand, send potentially harmful effluents into the air despite serious industry efforts at emission control. Last week a substitute for conventionally produced electricity was put on display. It would be pollution-free-but, in its present stage of development, cost the user at least twice as much...
...alternately rising and falling platforms, while the Treadmill ($235), a rubber mat on rollers with sidebar support, actually records the footage covered, if not inches lost. Gyrogym's Smartbel ($59.50), a 2-lb. dumbbell "with a mind of its own," generates surprisingly strong gyroscopic forces that cause the user to exert himself just as much as he would with a 110-lb. weight. The Skinny Dipper ($50), a V-shaped chaise, flattens out under the weight of the user, then bounces him back for more...
Grinspoon's consideration of "turning on" offers a good example of his analytical style. Observing that the first-time user rarely gets high. Grinspoon reviews the literature dealing with the first experience and considers both the physiological and the psychological angles. Physiologically, there is the possibility of a "pharmacological sensitization" that takes place, a phenomenon which could account for the so-called reverse tolerance-the fact that less dope is needed to get high by a regular user. Psychologically, a learning process may be taking place where the user learns to recognize himself as having peculiar sensations and as "having...
GRINSPOON outlines the properties of cannabis intoxication in a catalogue which, as he admits, is overly comprehensive. The user will recognize his own experiences, but the non-user may be confused or frightened by the vast array of documented responses. There is a valuable point, however, to such a list. If the psychopharmacological mechanisms of cannabis intoxication are to be known, characteristics of the experience which are common to many users can be tied together in the search for a physiological function for marijuana. Grinspoon suggests such a connection...
...must be said, though, that the book gives the escapist and sensual aspect of dope-taking a fair hearing as already mentioned, though, Grinspoon's list of responses is overly comprehensive to the point of possibly confusing or frightening the non-user...