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what would be near-beer to the boozer. This marihuana is almost harmless
except for asphyxiation from air pollution. The hippie's kick is a psychic
kick. Chemically speaking, the victim often is not smoking marihuana, but
burning underbrush. He is not the victim of a drug, but is the sucker of a
hoax. There is enough of this gyp going on to help support the notion that
marihuana is innocuous.4]
(There is some cross-fertilization in regard to the language going on here; Donald
Miller, Chief Counsel, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous drugs, in an article which
justifies the present legal structure on marijuana, writes: "... many persons report they
obtain no effects whatever when they use marihuana. They are not the victims of a drug,
but merely have been deceived with a hoax. There is so much gyping going on that it
helps support the notion that marihuana is innocuous. Chemically speaking, many ...
'triers' of marihuana really have... become partially asphyxiated from polluted air.")5]
The reader is seriously asked to believe that a great percentage of all marijuana users,
even some experienced ones ("the hopeful hippie"), have never really been high, and that
they are experiencing a placebo reaction. Actually, this point serves propaganda purposes:
if anyone who has smoked marijuana has not been damaged in any way, he must not have
gotten high. Thus protected, the antipot lobbyist is better able to defend the position that
the drug is really dangerous. Actually, the position itself is something of a fraud. The
placebo reaction occurs, of course, with no mean frequency, but the greater the amount of
experience with the drug, the less likely it is that the subject has experienced either no
reaction or nothing but a placebo reaction. In fact, the likelihood that a given person who
has smoked marijuana more than, say, a dozen times, thinks that he has been high without
actually experiencing what a truly experienced user would call a high, is practically nil.
The experience has been described in such florid detail by so many more experienced
users that he who has not attained it is eventually aware of it, and knows when he finally
does attain it.
Throughout any discussion of the effects of marijuana, we must alert ourselves to the
complexity of the equation. The simple question, 'What are the effects of marijuana?" is
meaningless. The answer to this query would have to be a series of further questions:
Under what circumstances? At what dosage level? Engaged in what kinds of activities?
Given what kind of legal and moral climate regarding marijuana use? All of these factors
influence the nature, quality, and degree of response to the drug.
Yet, at the same time, we must not exaggerate the variability of marijuana's effects.
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