URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/6091
Collection Structure Firing Line broadcast records >  Episode guide >  Marijuana--How Harmful?
Item Title Marijuana--How Harmful?
Collection Title Firing Line broadcast records
Guest Baird, Robert
Guest Smith, David E. (David Elvin) (1939-)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date Created July 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."
Subject(s) Marijuana Physiological effect Social aspects
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Recorded New York City, New York, United States
Dimensions Duration: 50 minutes
Format Text
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Color color
Color color
Soundtrack sound
Soundtrack sound
Hoover ID Program 157
Record Number 80040.157
Notes Video available through special order.
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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