This video clip is a portion of a prime time television program looking at marijuana and its effects that ran in 1970. It was a time when many of my friends and colleagues tried marijuana and did not see or experience the risks stated by the government. It was illegal of course and dangerous to get caught with it. You could easily be put in prison as a surprising number of young Americans were.

Research scientists, doctors, pharmaceutical researchers and others, were studying the effect of marijuana (THC) trying to understand whether it had a positive benefit. Government law at the time said that it did not. many of the scientists who tried to work in the field did not agree with the government and felt that whatever research had been done, was done with prejudice and not based on any scientific research efforts. Some of these pharmaceutical researchers worked legally or tried to and some worked outside the law in secret.

Dr. Leo Hollister conducted this experiment at Veterans Hospital in Palo Alto, California and also conducted experiments at Stanford University. This video clip presents what was going on. In a way, it looks funny today but back then, this was important science because the baby boomers were taking risks and smoking marijuana in spite of the laws and everyone looking at this new that this behavior was not going to stop but would increase.

Dr. Hollister released several statements as a result of his research including this one. “Pharmacological studies of marijuana have confirmed that the outstanding effects are an initial alteration of mood characterized by euphoria, followed by alteration of consciousness characterized by sleepiness. Other mental effects reminiscent of those observed with other psychotomimetic drugs, such as alterations in time perception, visual perception, auditory perception, changes in ability to remember or keep track of things, and depersonalization, may be observed after higher doses of the drug. In general, the severity of effects parallels the dose of drug closely, so that generalizations about effects of marijuana must be qualified according to the dose used. As most use of marijuana in Western society employs relatively small doses, the drug may appear to be more innocuous than would be the case if the dosage pattern should be changed by use of increasingly potent materials.

Several subscribers have written me expressing help with their drug addictions. I recommend searching the following words and phrases – luxury detox center, luxury rehab near me, luxury drug rehab, 90 day rehab program, residential detox centers, detox facility, substance abuse facility, addiction treatment center, residential drug treatment.

If you found this video clip of interest, entertaining, or revealing, please consider supporting my efforts by clicking the Super Thanks button below the video screen. That support helps me to keep going into my archive and finding more videos like this one.
Thank you
David Hoffman filmmaker

свернуть