All I have to say is this guy was a lightweight if he got that fucked up off 3 joints worth of THC given the quality of weed back then. The shit they have nowadays would flat out destroy him.
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.
Probably placebo effect. I had a co-worker that moved to Dallas from a small town in Iowa. He went to an all nude club one night and talked about getting drunk watching the show. All nude clubs in Texas can't serve alcohol. He got drunk on "near beer" simply because he expected to.
ReplyDeleteI was a daily smoker through much of the 60's - the stuff that is around today makes the best I had seem like a placebo or catnip. Half a hit is too much for me. 2nd hand from my wife is about right.
ReplyDeleteDifferent people react differently. I know people that have smoked all day their whole life and you wouldn't see it unless you know what to look for. I know others that freak out on a couple of tokes.
ReplyDeleteThe more you smoke, the easier it is to maintain. It just doesn't affect you as much. After a while, you're not getting high, you're getting normal.
DeleteI was a daily toker to the point I'd wake up and have a few hits with my coffee. I functioned fine.
What led you to cut back?
DeleteI didn't cut back, I quit when I moved to Tennessee. The price of weed is outrageous here and I refuse to pay retail fort the shit. I haven't paid street prices for weed since 1977 and I'm not about to start now.
DeleteMid grade oz at 200 in EastTN... got you covered brother!
DeleteJust got back from visiting a friend in the hospital back in NY.. its all legal. Mason jars of the shit on the counter, 20 different flavors, whatchawant? Some were labeled 20-25% thc. I do like the lemon haze and gelato. Good stuff.
Just a tidbit. I don't know exactly what year it escaped but Cornell was doing research for FedGov back in the 70's that was high octane. By 1981.... ..well, please don't ask how I know about this.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad that I quit smokeable drugs a long time ago. I only have one set of lungs and have seen someone die of lung cancer. Long, painful process. Really made me think.
ReplyDeleteI never had cannabis until I was 50. The first time I had it was during the pandemic lockdowns, because I saw that the dispensaries were allowed to stay open. I figured if it was "essential", maybe I should see what it was about. What I found was that it helped with my chronic pain (from car accidents and falling off a cliff) and my insomnia. I now have a medical card because it helps so much. And yeah, it's expensive as hell from the dispensaries.
ReplyDeleteFor some people the first time they feel nothing at all, but others are so blitzed they can't get up off the floor...That's this guy
ReplyDeleteHey! Far out, man!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they dipped the guy's fingers in DMSO. a cigarette smoker will quit after that. all the nicotine and other crap on their fingers goes straight to the bloodstream all at once.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine it's the same thing for anything else. the CIA had a plan to mix DMSO and LSD and use cropdusters to deploy it as an "area denial" weapon..anyone in the area they didn't want you to be in would suddenly start hallucinating pretty heavily. the one thing that stopped them is they couldn't figure out how to decontaminate the planes afterwards.
Never thought I'd quit smoking weed. But it's been many years since my last toke. The weed today I figure if I took a hit It would blow my heart out the side of my chest. However, there is just no desire.
ReplyDeleteMy dad was a big time pot smoker in the 60’s and 70’s and then gave it up. I was a teen in the 80’s and me and a buddy were hanging out at my house. The three of us started talking about getting high. Back then I was supporting the Afghani resistance against the Russians and in return I always had a pound or two of gold seal black hash kicking around. That shit was great.
ReplyDeleteSo pops said, “Ain’t never smoked hash that got me off.” I rolled a big fat coner that went around the table about a dozen times. The old man went cross eyed and said he had to go lay down for a while. I told pops we were going to take off for a road trip and I’d see him in a few days.
He said, “Holy shit…you’re driving like this?”
“Oh yeah pops…all the time…no problem.”
When I got back…pops said I had to go get my own insurance.
Some months later I came home with a garbage bag full of bush weed that didn’t turn out too good. He freaked over the fact that he had never seen so much pot in one place and figured out why his boy always had cash and no job. But, he got over it since the smoke was more in his lane.
I remember that hash with the gold stamp. Good stuff. Sold like hotcakes.
DeleteWhat's very interesting, is that they combine THC and Alcohol for the experiment. First time I got buzzed on both, I knew the mix was pretty bad. This guy was probably an alcohol virgin as well.
ReplyDeleteFailed experiment, they didn't think it through. Shoulda made him a brownie or something.
I used to regularly drink bourbon and smoke weed and never gave it a second thought.
DeleteIf you want to do a study on the effects of long term pot use ... ask me. I started at age 25 and I am now 80. Still a daily user. I take cannabis oil at night to sleep soundly. It's a great mild drug for many ailments. I have bad days and good days. A couple puffs and my perspective changed to better. Also, pot is an analgesic, so it helps with the aches and pains of old age.
ReplyDeleteWell I'm only 74 but I took my first toke in the winter of '67 / '68. And that was a hit of Red Lebanese. (You weren't at the same house party, were you?) ....and I never looked back.
DeletePure THC for a Greenhorn? That shit WILL fuck you up. Even after years of use. Ask me how I know. And ingesting it will get you a high that I personally do not like - its the aftereffects.
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