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Marijuana--How Harmful?
Collection StructureFiring Line broadcast records > Episode guide > Marijuana--How Harmful?
Item Title Marijuana--How Harmful?
Guest Baird, Robert
Guest Smith, David E. (David Elvin) (1939-)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedJuly 07, 1969
Description

The first of many Firing Line discussions of marijuana and other drugs. The fact that Dr. Smith's practice is among the dropped-out children of the well to do in Haight-Ashbury, whereas Dr. Baird's is among the poor in Harlem, may have something to do with their diametrically opposed viewpoints. DS: "Many people in the suburbs use marijuana, at low dosages, for anxiety relief-much as an individual would come home and have a martini or a beer.... At higher dosages, particularly in group settings, it is used as an intoxicant-in the way you might have five martinis at your country-club cocktail party." ... RB: "No person who is personally well adjusted would want to take marijuana. Why would he want to take it unless he is doing a thoroughly scientific research project?" WFB: "Well, presumably because it yields pleasure." RB: "Well, the pleasure syndrome-if he has to seek that for his own orientation-" WFB: "I didn't say he had to; I said he elects to."

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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 50 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram 157
Record Number80040.157
NotesVideo available through special order.
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.

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