Word: wurmser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amateurish Criticism. Leaping to the attack, the opposing psychiatrists emphasized that the Philadelphia study covered the behavior of only 38 of the millions who have experimented with pot. Said Leon Wurmser, scientific director of the Johns Hopkins Drug Abuse Center: "There is no systematic quantitative study which would allow any conclusion as to a cause-and-effect relationship between marijuana use and serious mental problems." Professor Norman Zinberg of Harvard pointed out that the Kolansky-Moore findings could be applied to beer drinkers as well as pot users, and San Francisco Psychiatrist Joel Fort said that the study contained "inaccurate...
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