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Essay Archive - Marijuana
Marijuana
An ongoing research project headed by associate professor of
psychiatry Harrison Pope had one subject who had smoked marijuana every
day for a long time. To participate in the research-which actually
concerned not drug use but testosterone-he had to stop his marijuana use.
The man had been such a heavy use that, even four weeks after quitting,
detectable cannabis residue appeared in his urine. But one day soon
thereafter he told Pope that he "woke up and felt alert for the first time
in years. The acute effects of marijuana, whose botanical name is
cannabis, are well documented, but scientists know far less about....
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