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Editorials THE PROSELYTING PUSHER A new item (Medical World News, July 14, 1972, p. 5) concerning a west coast firm that will analyze street drugs for a fee quotes an official of the firm as saying that one LSD-using group would give the drug away free if possible. He was speaking of green or red pills selling for 18 cents each, and containing 450 micrograms of pure LSD, over twice the usual adult dose of 200 micrograms; one rumor had it that they were produced in those colors for Christmas sales. As the first wave of horror passes at the thought of what harm such cheap, enormously powerful drugs might do to users who could well be little children, one can reasonably think about the motives of the makers and sellers of the drug. Most of us think that profit—enormous profit—is the ruling motive in the illegal drug trade, and this is no doubt the case in most instances. But there is a strong current of zealotism among what may be described as the philosophical school of drug users, mainly the young experimenters. In that group are many tal- ented, well educated people capable of producing and marketing drugs of the high quality found by the California analysts. Similar—maybe even the same —groups also produce high quality bombs that have destroyed public and private property. We know that some of the bomb-producing lunatics have blown themselves up, but thus far have not been told about any of the drug-producing lunatics destroying themselves with their own chemicals. It is unlikely that even a spate of horror stories about drug producers becoming casualties of drug usage would deter the potential user. It may be that the availability of extremely cheap, high quality illegal drugs will do what some serious students of the drug scene advocate—remove the element of profit, and allow the drug susceptibles to either kill themselves or get over their tendencies. These commentators on the drug scene suggest that prohibition never works, and that ready access to drugs through normal channels is the only way to decriminalize the disease of drug addiction. The whole matter is such a mess that bizarre solutions might be the only ones. The Medical Spectator To the Editor: Some ten years ago, having spent my hostility against the body politic and finding that I was writing when I had nothing to say, I took my collection of isolated but telling phrases into retirement from these pages, hoping that some of them might return later as full-blown paragraphs apposite and amiable. Since then, I have found many answers seeking questions, assembled a goodly collection of false facts, and pondered natural phenomenon begging explanation. A recent editorial in your columns suggests that you too share my concern about the common and mysterious doings of our daily lives. But it seems to me that beyond your question, Why Earlier Men-arche?, lies a more recondite query, at least if I read your message right. Thusly, What of the Pineal Gland and Why? This structure, as we all know, drew the attention of the illustrious Descartes, attracted theological speculation (pardon my redundancy) and recently emerged as a source of a chemical, melatonin, yearning for a locus of action. The ovary seemed a logical target organ but the proper feedback diagram clarifying the reciprocity between the seat of the soul and fertility cults still seeks its designer. The staff of the hardback culture gazette, Horizon, has also been concerned about the pineal gland in a 782 Vol. 33, No. 10! h
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-2001] |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- Periodicals.; Physicians -- North Carolina -- Directory.; Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Includes Transactions of the Society, -1960; 1961- , Transactions issued separately, bound in.; Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association. Official organ of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1940-May 1972; of the North Carolina Medical Society, June 1972-. Vols. for 1940-May 1972 published by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; June 1972- by the North Carolina Medical Society. |
Contributor | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Transactions.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina.; North Carolina Medical Society.; North Carolina Medical Society. Transactions.; North Carolina Public Health Association. Proceedings. |
Publisher | [Winston-Salem] : North Carolina Medical Society [etc.], 1940- |
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Date | 1972 |
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-2001] |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- Periodicals.; Physicians -- North Carolina -- Directory.; Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Includes Transactions of the Society, -1960; 1961- , Transactions issued separately, bound in.; Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association. Official organ of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1940-May 1972; of the North Carolina Medical Society, June 1972-. Vols. for 1940-May 1972 published by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; June 1972- by the North Carolina Medical Society. |
Contributor | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Transactions.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina.; North Carolina Medical Society.; North Carolina Medical Society. Transactions.; North Carolina Public Health Association. Proceedings. |
Publisher | [Winston-Salem] : North Carolina Medical Society [etc.], 1940- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1972 |
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Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 33 |
Issue Number | 9 |
Page Number | 782 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | Editorials THE PROSELYTING PUSHER A new item (Medical World News, July 14, 1972, p. 5) concerning a west coast firm that will analyze street drugs for a fee quotes an official of the firm as saying that one LSD-using group would give the drug away free if possible. He was speaking of green or red pills selling for 18 cents each, and containing 450 micrograms of pure LSD, over twice the usual adult dose of 200 micrograms; one rumor had it that they were produced in those colors for Christmas sales. As the first wave of horror passes at the thought of what harm such cheap, enormously powerful drugs might do to users who could well be little children, one can reasonably think about the motives of the makers and sellers of the drug. Most of us think that profit—enormous profit—is the ruling motive in the illegal drug trade, and this is no doubt the case in most instances. But there is a strong current of zealotism among what may be described as the philosophical school of drug users, mainly the young experimenters. In that group are many tal- ented, well educated people capable of producing and marketing drugs of the high quality found by the California analysts. Similar—maybe even the same —groups also produce high quality bombs that have destroyed public and private property. We know that some of the bomb-producing lunatics have blown themselves up, but thus far have not been told about any of the drug-producing lunatics destroying themselves with their own chemicals. It is unlikely that even a spate of horror stories about drug producers becoming casualties of drug usage would deter the potential user. It may be that the availability of extremely cheap, high quality illegal drugs will do what some serious students of the drug scene advocate—remove the element of profit, and allow the drug susceptibles to either kill themselves or get over their tendencies. These commentators on the drug scene suggest that prohibition never works, and that ready access to drugs through normal channels is the only way to decriminalize the disease of drug addiction. The whole matter is such a mess that bizarre solutions might be the only ones. The Medical Spectator To the Editor: Some ten years ago, having spent my hostility against the body politic and finding that I was writing when I had nothing to say, I took my collection of isolated but telling phrases into retirement from these pages, hoping that some of them might return later as full-blown paragraphs apposite and amiable. Since then, I have found many answers seeking questions, assembled a goodly collection of false facts, and pondered natural phenomenon begging explanation. A recent editorial in your columns suggests that you too share my concern about the common and mysterious doings of our daily lives. But it seems to me that beyond your question, Why Earlier Men-arche?, lies a more recondite query, at least if I read your message right. Thusly, What of the Pineal Gland and Why? This structure, as we all know, drew the attention of the illustrious Descartes, attracted theological speculation (pardon my redundancy) and recently emerged as a source of a chemical, melatonin, yearning for a locus of action. The ovary seemed a logical target organ but the proper feedback diagram clarifying the reciprocity between the seat of the soul and fertility cults still seeks its designer. The staff of the hardback culture gazette, Horizon, has also been concerned about the pineal gland in a 782 Vol. 33, No. 10! h |
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