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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. An Overview of
The First Time
Because our Puritan-based society has traditionally been uneasy
Addiction and
At the same time, marijuana is an attractive activity for
Strategies of Smokers
There are some smokers who are convinced that "good
Stopping
Notes
14. Looking Ahead:
Smokers of this persuasion speak of marijuana being grown by
In the event of legalization, it is unlikely that names will
The Moment of Awareness
Appendix
On the other hand, I very often have magnificent creative
2. A Denver high school
I don't know if you're interested, but the reason I started
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Appendix II. Studies on
the Effects of Marijuana in Users
I. The Weil-Zinberg
Study
In
1968 Andrew Weil, then a medical student at Harvard University, together with
Norman Zinberg, a Harvard psychoanalyst, conducted a series of experiments to
determine the basic physical and psychological effects of marijuana on human
beings This study, which took place at Boston University, represented the first
double-blind experiments with marijuana; until the study was completed, neither
the subjects nor the experimenters knew who had been smoking a drug and who had
been smoking a carefully disguised placebo.
Here are the conclusions, as reported in the article,
"Clinical and Psychological Effects of Marihuana in Man," Science 162
(13 December 1968):1234-42.
1. It is feasible and safe to study the effects of marijuana on
human volunteers who smoke it in a laboratory.
2. In a neutral setting persons who are naive to marijuana do not
have strong subjective experiences after smoking low or high doses of the drug,
and the effects they do report are not the same as those described by regular
users of marijuana who take the drug in the same neutral setting.
3. Marijuana-naive persons do demonstrate impaired performance on
simple intellectual and psychomotor tests after smoking marijuana; the
impairment is dose-related in some cases.
4. Regular users of marijuana do get high after smoking marijuana
in a neutral setting but do not show the same degree of impairment of performance
on the tests as do naive subjects. In some cases, their performance even
appears to improve slightly after smoking marijuana.
5. Marijuana increases heart rate moderately.
6. No change in respiratory rate follows administration of marijuana
by inhalation.
7. No change in pupil size occurs in short-term exposure to
marijuana.
8. Marijuana administration causes dilation of conjunctival blood
vessels.
9. Marijuana treatment produces no change in blood sugar levels.
10. In a neutral setting the physiological and psychological
effects of a single, inhaled dose of marijuana appear to reach maximum
intensity within one-half hour of inhalation, to be diminished after one hour,
and to be completely dissipated by three hours.
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