Drug Culture

National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse

Because of the growing concern about drug abuse in the late 1960s, Congress enacted P.L.91-513. Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. It established the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse. Debate continues today about the reports of this commission.

Marihuana: a signal of misunderstanding: First report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse. March 1972. Washington, D.C. GPO. GIMSS GIMSS Y3 .M33/2:2 M33

Drug Use in America: Problem in Perspective: Technical Papers of the Second Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse. 1973. GIMSS Y3 .M33/2:1 1973

Double-Blind Studies on effects of Marihuana:

Andrew T. Weil, M.D. Norman Zinberg, M.D., and Judith Nelson "Clinical and Psychological Effects of Marihuana in Man," Science 162, #67, 13 Dec. 1968, 1234-1242.

Andrew T. Weil, M.D. Norman Zinberg, M.D., and Judith Nelson. "Acute Effects of Marihuana on Speech," Nature 222, 3 May 1969, 423-437.

Other resources on Marihuana and the Sixties Drug Culture -- (Some examples are listed below):

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