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arguments carry any weight at all,
the noxious effects of the drug will be aggravated among the very young. And even if the
promarijuana arguments turn out to substantially sound, that is, that the effects on a wellintegrated,
fully developed adult personality are either beneficial (within agreed-upon
definitions) or negligible, the impact on adolescent and pre-adolescent children (taking
eighteen as a rough demarcation line) is a matter to be investigated separately. It is a
legitimate question to raise as to the influence of marijuana on the young. The following
questions might present themselves as heretofore unanswered requests for much-needed
information:
1. Are adolescents able to assimilate and integrate the insights of a
novel and offbeat perspective into a rewarding day-to-day existence
in society?
2. Will they be able to avoid making the drug the focus of their lives, a
complete raison d'être?
3. How aware will adolescents be of the distinction between situations
in which marijuana is relatively harmless (such as with friends, or
watching a film), and those where it may be dangerous (such as,
perhaps, in stressful situations )?
Physicians are acutely aware of the potential damaging effects of the drug on the
adolescent personality. (In fact, even many nonmedical observers who take a relatively
tolerant view of marijuana use in general are concerned about its possible impact on the
young.)43] The Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, a physician, writes:
One needs to be particularly concerned about the potential effect of a reality
distorting agent on the future psychological development of the adolescent
user. We know that normal adolescence is a time of great psychological
turmoil. Patterns of coping with reality developed during the teenage period
are significant in determining adult behavior. Persistent use of an agent
which serves to ward off reality during this critical development period is
likely to compromise seriously the future ability of the individual to make
an adequate adjustment to a complex society.44]
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The Marijuana Smokers - Chapter 5
THE USE OF MORE POTENT DRUGS
Finally, some physicians oppose marijuana use on the sequential grounds that it leads to
the use of more powerful, truly dangerous and addicting drugs. At one time, heroin was
the primary concern of society, but within the past six years, it has had to share society's
concern with LSD. Physicians have absorbed a good deal of sociological thinking and
generally deny that there is an actual pharmacological link between marijuana use and the
use of LSD and heroin. Being high does not make one crave another, progressively more
potent, drug. As Dr. Brill says, there is no connection between marijuana and other drugs
"in the laboratory," but the association "in the street" is undoubtedly marked.45] The
pusher line of reasoning as to progressive drug use is sometimes cited: "...
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