Marijuana approach

The same questions need to be asked of the many studies that show little or no ill effects from marijuana Have these researchers been fair and balanced in their approaches Remember to think critically and explore all sides before forming an opinion. 

With the coincidental retirement in 1962 of Commissioner Anslinger and the Supreme Court s decision that addiction was a disease, and with the arrival of President Kennedy s New Frontier, the Bureau s approach was becoming anachronistic. The prevailing mood of the day encouraged reduced penalties, more medical treatment, possible development of maintenance clinics, and a reevaluation of drug laws. In 1962 a White House Panel on Narcotic and Drug Abuse reported that It is the opinion of the Panel that the hazards of marijuana per se have been exaggerated and... 

This has been our experience with the challenging task of differentiating between the hair of marijuana users and contaminated hair from nonusers who were only exposed to marijuana smoke. Here only the measurement of the metabolite, carboxy-THC, but none of the wash procedures or wash kinetic approaches that we have successfully applied to the other drugs have led to satisfactory results. Our ability to measure digoxin in small hair samples, even though this was taken in doses as... 

Compton, D. R., Harris, L. S., Lichtman, A. H., Martin, B. R. (1996). Marijuana. In C. R. Schuster M. J. Kuhar (Eds.), Pharmacological aspects of drug dependence Toward an integrated neurobehavioral approach (pp. 83-158). New York Springer-Vcrlag. 

Hallucinogen intoxication is treated in a manner similar to stimulant intoxication. Drug therapy often can be avoided because patients may respond to careful reassurance, or so-called talk-down therapy. When necessary, short-term antianxiety and/or antipsychotic drug therapy can be used, as described previously. The same approach applies to marijuana and inhalant intoxication. 

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