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A newspaper/magazine for the music industry.
March 15, 1944
page 1
“Musicians Used for Weed Medical Test” By FRANK STACY
New York
-The scientific world is finally paying some heed to the marijuana problem and
attacking it from a musician's viewpoint. According
to reliable sources, research doctors attached to government prison-hospitals
where drug addicts are confined for cure are currently working on a series of
experiments with marijuana, using musicians as guinea pigs.
The experiments are designed to find out the effect, if any, the weed has
on the quality of a musician's work and the medics and music-makers are locking
themselves up in rooms then blowing their top---but scientifically.
Volunteers
for the tests are being taken from among inmates, with a musical background.
A musical aptitude test is given each subject, both while he is in a
normal condition and again while under the influence of marijuana.
In this manner the doctors hope to determine some musicians are attracted
to the drug; whether it improves the quality of their playing and whether the
whole idea is a bad kick.
Exaggerated
Influence
It's
no secret that many musicians have been offenders against the Marijuana Tax Act.
The records show this even though the facts have been over-stated to the
point where the public believes all musicians and their friends live in a
perpetual narcotic whirl.
Marijuana
derives its name from a Mexican slang-word, meaning "Mary Jane." In
the United States, the drug is known variously as tea, muggles, weed, dry gauge,
reefers and hemp. The dried, crushed
leaves of the plant .are smoked heavily in Oriental countries, including India,
Africa, Egypt, Syria, Greece and Arabia. (Modulate to Page 3)
In
many sections of the United States, the plant is grown commercially for its
hemp, used in manufacturing rope, hats and paper.
It can be cultivated easily. Due
to its rapid spread as a stimulant, the Marijuana Tax Act was passed in 1937 and
a curb put on the growing influence of the weed.
Problem
Studied
Medical
men and sociologists regard the drug as a stimulant having the same physical and
mental effects as alcohol. Unlike
the pernicious drugs, such as cocaine and heroin, marijuana does not addict its
user with an insatiable craving. Case
histories of confirmed drug addicts disclose that many found their start with
marijuana, which because of its availability and low price is with .in reach of
everyone.
Stories
and movies about marijuana users have misinterpreted the drug habit.
Rather than the drug creating mental cases for the psychotic ward, the
people who use marijuana are already emotionally unstable and turn to the drug
as a refuge from life's problems. The
basic problem with inveterate users involves a mental rehabilitation of the
shattered mind drawn to drugs.
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