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Reefer Madness - NEWSWEEK
(PART 2)
This time Marihuana causes its addicts to:
(+) “Grow careless about personal hygiene”
(+) To have “Sex of a Perverse Nature”
(+) To temporary insanity
Public Health Service officials, say “The drug is more
harmful than opium”. Etc., etc.,
blah, blah, blah.
Newsweek, November 18,1946 page 70
MEDICINE -Marijuana and Mentality
Although only 700 to 800 persons are arrested each year in
the United States for using Marijuana, the drug’s reputation as a public
menace has touched off a bitter medical controversy.
When a marijuana committee appointed by former Mayor
Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York city announced in 1945 that the drug’s
dangers were greatly overrated, the American Medical Association called the
report “thoroughly unscientific” and charged it with doing “great
damage.” Acting as umpire, he
Treasury’s Bureau of Narcotics admitted that the use of marijuana had fallen
off slightly since 1940 (18,500 marijuana reefers were confiscated in 1940,
17,000 in 1945), but warned that the drug was still “an important cause of
crime.”
Last summer, the United States Public Health Service
decided to conduct its own marijuana experiment at the USPHS hospital at
Lexington Ky. Six addicts, ranging
in age from 24 to 33, were allowed to smoke a daily average of 17 reefers
supplied by the Bureau of Narcotics for a period of 39 days.
At first, the marijuana smokers showed extreme
exhilaration. They talked, laughed,
and pranced about the room. Later
they began to complain of headaches, dry mouths, irritated throats, and swollen
eyelids. After a few days, they
grew lethargic and careless about personal hygiene.
None became violent, but most of them sulked when subjected to exhaustive
mental and physical test.
From the USPHS experiment came these significant medical
facts:
(+) The senses of touch, smell, and sight were not affected
by marijuana.
(+) Body temperature and pulse rate decreased; weight
increased slightly.
(+) Although mental vigor increased, intelligence rating
fell.
(+) Musical ability was not improved, although most
patients thought so while under the drug’s influence.
This confirms other medical opinions on the effect of marijuana on
musical talent (NEWSWEEK, Oct. 28 1946).
(+)After the first burst of exhilaration, patients lost
interest in work and spent most of their time sleeping.
(+) With prolonged usage of the drug patients developed a
tolerance to it but gave no definite proof that it is habit-forming.
As for the relation of marijuana to crime and insanity, the
Public Health Service officials pointed out last week to Newsweek; “Although
the drug lessens inhibitions, it does not incite normally law-abiding people to
crime. Most addicts are people with
unstable backgrounds –poverty, broken homes, or criminal records – and for
them, marijuana may increase the chance for crime. The drug is more harmful than habit-forming opium in inducing
fits of temporary insanity, but it seldom leads to permanent derangement.”
In the various studies, no definite conclusion seems to
have been reached on the aphrodisiac qualities of marijuana.
The general opinion indicates that the drug causes a release of all
inhibitions, similar to that of alcohol through more intense.
In other words, marijuana may not actually stimulate the sex centers.
But it dulls the higher centers which control sexual behavior and in may
cases, sex activity of a perverse nature results.
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