Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeared yesterday (12/4?69) at Memorial Hall to attempt to donate blood. After the initial formalities, I was asked a number of questions about my medical history, including whether I had ever taken any drugs. I naively answered yes-in connection with illnesses. The nurse said, no, she meant marijuana or L. S. D. Well, I said, of course I've smoked occasionally-but not very often. The last time? About two weeks ago. She disappeared behind a curtain and returned to say that on doctor's orders. I was permanently "deferred...
...questioned the rationality of this policy and, in reply, was asked whether I would want my mother, near death in a hospital, to be given a marijuana smoker's blood. I asked to see the doctor and was referred instead to the head nurse, who said the doctor was busy at her lunch...
...scandal has been expansive enough to leave room for all kinds of crusades. Senator Thomas Dodd even smuggled in a swipe at the Demon Weed. Must be that Vietnam marijuana, he sagely reasoned, that turned American soldiers, traditionally "well-mannered, loyal, kind to a fault," into maniacs. "Heaven knows," he went on, "we've seen the violence wrought by marijuana here at home." If you've seen photos of Lt. William R. Calley, awaiting trial for the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians, you can picture the type of salivating addict that Dodd is talking about...
This year donors were to be asked whether they had smoked marijuana in the past two weeks or had taken hard drugs within the past half year. If so they were not allowed to donate blood. A Red Cross official said this procedure was initiated because too little was knownabout the effect of marijuana and hard drugs on blood. However, many donors said that they had not been asked these questions...
...Marijuana's effect in producing a state of introspection and bodily passivity is repellent to a cultural tradition that prizes activity, aggressiveness and advancement." Grinspoon says in his article...