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Dean Glimp and University psychiatrist Norman Zinberg will participate in an open forum on parietals at 8 p.m. Sunday in Emerson 105. After introductory remarks, they will field questions from the floor...
...Boston attorney challenged the marijuana laws this May in Suffolk Superior Court on the grounds that pot is neither harmful nor addictive. He seems to have a good case. Dr. Norman Zinberg of Harvard cites in a recent article in The Public Interest several reports--Allentuck and Bowman, Murphy, and LaGuardia--which contend that pot is harmless...
What is needed, Zinberg says, is more research; then an unbiased, unmoralistic appraisal of drugs should be made. The laws as they stand now serve as a fine deterrent to any kind of debate and any kind of study. That may be how authorities want it, the situation is unlikely to stay that way much longer...
...article on narcotics in the Spring issue of Public Interest, Dr. Norman Zinberg, a Harvard psychiatrist, writes of Anslinger: "Throughout his career, he did his best to forbid public discussion of the issues involved by denouncing anyone who did not agree with his views as a potential criminal or dupe of criminals.... Whenever any group, even those as conservative as the New York Academy of Medicine or the American Bar Association, questioned Anslinger's policy--in itself a rare event--Anslinger answered by offering to disclose the high percentage of physicians and other public figures who were themselves 'hooked...
Woodroe's article and those by Zinberg and Shultes and Wasson are very much worth reading. The others may be regarded as curious and timely documents in a controversy which is certain to go beyond Harvard. When it does--and feature articles on the hallucinogens are already being written for several national publications--this issue of the Harvard Review will be an indispensible reference...