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the reasons why is al
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long nights of readini
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Tests and papers
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is illegal, then only o
means the purchase
those who may also ir
dangerous drugs in t]
anxious to introduce
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tact with pushers, the
from being outside i
of association with I
abusers, lead some
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in the marijuana lav
without forcing the b
drug culture, would a
tial for abuse.
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breeds open rebellior
been called by Dr. J<
Health Organizati
(author of The Pleas1
Crisis, Youth and Soci
nihilism in which v
hopelessly confused
of formulating a sir
takes a perverse de
everything that will:
anger, baffle and offc
As a result of marijua
concludes that "we I
of psychological rebe
The usual response
with the costs of ma
that we need more re
health consequences
before changing the1
As long ago as 1894
a comprehensive stui
of the Indian Drugs
the request of the go
study was underte
marijuana was comr
for disease, insanity
clusions of the Comn
trarv:
(1) There is no es
regarding mental an<
moderate use of mar
(2) Large numb
(medical) of long ex
evidence of any cnn
)eed scare
am and termpaper time, a rumor has
poison amphetamines--bad speed--is
that someone has died from it.
administration, faculty and students
ibstantiate the rumor. It remains just
rever if anyone has any definite infor
a Gamecock know.
f several small black capsules, some
'black beauty" with no identification,
ntent to be about 12 to 19 milligrams
HESE CAPS ARE BOOTLEG FROM
hey apparently were not made by a
ny. Of course anytime you buy speed,
you are getting. The only safe way
ing is safe.
amphetamines by students to stay up
ew. But perhaps a re-examination of
>propriate.
of people wait to the last minute to
ite a paper. But perhaps during those
g or writing it occurred to you to ask
? I'm not learning a damn thing."
are inferior tools of evaluation.
east, the faculty will set aside a short
or discussion of alternatives to tests
ies that would be personally meaning
vide the academic accountability that
eed.
pular laws
bumper stickers, if pot ate use
utlaws will sell it. This health.
r must associate with (3) 1N
iclude heroin and other mariju
heir trade, and may be Regula
a newcomer to them. duces t
evidence that this con- ular d<
alienation from society excess
ts laws, and the effect to the
persons who are drug apprec
ersons to experiment publist
ronger drugs. A reform soldier
s, making it available This n(
uyer to enter the hard- that m
void much of the poten- that the
tried it
f such unpopular laws compai
1. It provokes what has The:
)el Fort, former World at the r
on drug consultant, is perli
ire Seekers: The Drug on the
ety), "a kind of cultural prised
ood and evil become and ps,
and the rebel, instead officer
gle precise program, reporte
light in anything and in New
shock, startle, perplex, years,
~nd the establishment." Thos
na prohibition, Dr. Fort for a y
tave bred a generation physi4
1s." attribu
whe a one is confronted drug o1
rijuana prohibition is to mei
search concerning the addicti
of smoking marijuana fcmes
Law. cie
, the British published trophic
dy entitled the report York IE
Commission. Made at In 19
vernment of India, this Depen<
ken at a time when tain re
nonly blamed in India mariju
and crime. Yet the con- Report
iission were to the con- ing:5v
to us,a
idence of any weight the cotl
I moral injury from the Drugs I
ijuana. .ment c
ers of pracitioners Mayor
perience have seen no that lo
ection between moder- modera
breed open r
of marijuana and mental or physical
oderation does not lead to excess in
ma any more than it does in alcohol.
r moderate use of marijuana pro
he same effects as moderate and reg
ses of whiskey. The harm done by
ve use is confined almost exclusively
iser. The effect on society is rarely
able. In 1925, the United States Arma
ed a study of marijuana use among
serving in the Panama Canal Zone.
table conservative body concluded
rijuana was not habit-forming and
relationship of marijuana to offenses
the military court was negligible in
ison with the role of alcohol.
a Guardia Report, published in 1944
quest of the mayor of New York City,
aps one of the most valuable studies
subject. The Commission was com
f eminent physicians, psychiatrists
chologists and included six narcotics
;. They were appointed to investigate
that marijuana was driving people
York to rape and murder. After two
heir report concluded:
who have been smoking marijuana
eriod of years showed no mental or
al deterioration which may be
:ed to the drug....Marijuana is not a
addiction. ..Marijuana does not lead
rphine or heroin or cocaine
mn....Marijuana is not the determining
in the commission of major
...The publicity concerning catas
effects of marijuana smoking in New
unfounded.
58, The Advisory Committee on Drug
ence of the HomeOffice of Great Bri
leased a study on the effects of
ina in England. Known as the Wootton
this study made the following find
ig reviewed ali tne mtaterial available
re find ourselves in agreement with
elusions reached by the Indian Hemp
2ommission appointed by the govern
r India (1893-94) and the New York
s Committee on Marijuana (1944),
ig-term consumption of cannabis in
te doses has no harmful effaet.
YOU HEAR
SOMETHIN6?
'e bellion
In January 1971, The National Institued
of Mental Health, in its report to Congress
entitled Marijuana and Health, made these
findings:
(1) There is no evidence to suggest that
marijuana use in humans causes birth
defects or affect fetal development.
(2) There is no direct evidence of any prog
ression from marijuana to heroin or other
stronger drugs.
A year later, in its 2nd annual report,
N.I.M.H. again reiterated that their research
had failed to uncover any significant harmful
results from smoking marijuana. And for the
first time they stressed the potential medical
uses of marijuana for treatment of glaucoma,
migrane headaches, depression, etc. In
releasing this report, N.I.M.H. Director Dr.
Bertram Browm said he now favored the
elimination of all criminal penalties for
smoking marijuana.
Further support for the position that
marijuana dot,s not present an unacceptable
risk to society derives from a number of
sources. Following a research project at Bos
ton University concerning the effects of
marijuana, Drs. Norma E. Zinburg and
Andrew T. Weil concluded that the near
absence of physical effects from smoking
marijuana "makes it unlikely that marijuana
has any seriously detrimental physical
effects in either short-term or long-term
usage." Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Associate
Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts
Mental Health Center, (author of Marijuana
Reconsidered) says:
After an exhaustive review of the litera
ture, I have concluded that marijuana Is a
relatively safe intoxicant which is not addict
ing, does not in and of itself lead to the use
of harder drugs, is not criminogenic, and
does not lead to sexual excess. The evidence
that it may lead to personality deterioration
and psychosis is quite unconvincing, and
indeed there may even be some Important
clinical utilities for some cannabis
derivatives...The present approach (of legal
prohibition) is unrealistic, overly punitive,
even often barbaric, inequitable, ineffective,
and frequently counter-productive