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University Daily Kansan, April 30, 1981
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Marijuana effects discussed
By JANE FORMAN CIGARD Staff Reporter
A psychiatrist at the University of Kansas Medical Center says there does not appear to be any correlation between marijuana usage and the incidence of psychiatric illness.
Ronald Weller, professor of psychiatry, delivered that message to about 100 students and physicians at a Med Center lecture last Friday.
Weller referred to a 1970 study with 100 users and non-users of marijuana. All of the participants in the study were white and at least 18 years old. The users all used marijuana at least 50 times in six months and considered themselves regular users.
"A very large percentage of these people had some diagnosable psychiatric illness," he said. "Fifty-two percent of the users and 46 percent of the non-users showed no differences in their experiences; were no differences that were statistically significant in the incidents of psychiatric illness."
IN TROSE CASES where marijuana users had diagnosable psychiatric illnesses, the illnesses began using marijuana, Weller said.
Weller also said that usage of marijuana had increased dramatically in recent years.
"Usage of marjuba essentially for psychoactive recreational purposes has tremendously increased over the past decade," he said. "In 1989 probably eight to 12 million Americans had tried marjuba. Currently there are probably over 50 million people in this country that use marjuba, but that's about a fourth of the population."
Weller cited a government survey conducted in 1979 that showed 8 percent of young people ages 12 and 13 had tried marijauna at least once, 10 percent had tried marijauna, and 51 percent had tried marijauna by the time they were 16 or 17.
The percentage of young people who had tried marijuana jumped to 68 percent between the ages of 18 and 25, Weller said.
Hashish, a resin taken from the stems and leaves of the plant, is about 12 percent THC. Hash oil, an extract taken from the flowering
The amount of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive compound in marijuana), that is present in the weed that grows wild in Kansas is about 0.5 percent. Colombian marijuana contains about 4 to 5 percent THC.
tops of the plant, often has 60 percent THC content. Weller said.
Clinical studies have been conducted to determine the physical effects of marijuana. Weller said.
When an individual smokes a marijuana cigarette, about 50 percent of the smoke inhaled reaches the lungs. Almost all the THC that reaches the lungs is absorbed, Weller said.
UNLIKE ALCOHOL, which first goes through the liver, he said, THC is absorbed and transported to the through the blood in about 14 seconds.
ine measurable effects will last about three to six hours. Three is probably a more realistic figure," Weller said.
Other physiological effects that take place after smoking marijuana include an impaired ability of the lungs to clear themselves of tar and smoke, a decrease in heart rate, and a decrease in blood pressure, Weller said.
There is an increase oxygen demand from the heart but a decreased ability of the blood to deliver the oxygen, he said.
Marijuana also impairs judgment of distance and time, causes a decrease in REM (rapid eye movement) to be the most restful period of sleep and increases the total sleep time, Weller said.
Michael Harper, administrative assistant to Kansas Senator Nancy Landon Kasebeau, gazed at the green lawn in front of him at the yellow legal pad in front of him.
By DALE WETZEL Staff Reporter
Coalition discusses U.S. budget plan
"Most of these I can't answer," he said, with a touch of humor in his voice. "I'm not David Stockman (the director) who knew about the Management and the Budet."
Harper was referring to the agenda at a session held yesterday at the Lawrence Public Library with the Peace Coalition for Peace and Justice.
The meeting, arranged by Anne Moore, coalition director, was intended to establish a dialogue with Kansa's Congressional members. However, the committee for Sen. Robert Dole and Rep. Larry Hines were unable to attend. Moore said.
The audience of approximately 20 people had volunteered discussion topics to Moore that ranged from defense spending to the Reagan ad budgeting philosophy. Moore then wrote them on a green chalkboard.
REAGAN'S BUDGET PHILOSOPHY was one of the subjects addressed by Ben Zimmerman, KU associate professor of social welfare.
"The Reagan economic program is
not a 'cubback.' Zimmerman said,
pausing for emphasis. "It is a baphane,
over a period of five years. It isn't a
simile cubback."
Earlier, Zimmerman had leafed through a massive, blue OMB document offered by Harper. The book, published this month, detailed the extent of Regan's proposed budget cutbacks.
Zimmerman chuckled when the book's rationale for one cut was given as "being consistent with the basis of sound economic criteria."
"I should hope that they think that way," Zimmerman said. "It seems that 'sound economic criteria' should go without saving."
STEPHEN FLETCHER, pastor of the First Baptist Church, 1330 Kasid, was more concerned with what he needed in the administration's economic priorities.
He listed these priorities as "showing military strength and protecting institutions that make profits without necessarily benefiting the people, with programs that benefit people directly beinr last on the list.
"The priorities should be with people and institutions that serve people." Fletcher said, "and not at all on killing people."
Harper pointed out Sen. Kassebaum had voted for a defense budget cut in a recent hearing of the Senate's Budget Committee but that she had been outrolled 15-5.
Harper asked whether Fletcher
thought American military forces were up to strength, and Fletcher replied, "I think we have adequate preparedness."
IT WAS THE inflatatory aspect of defense spending that worried Dorothy Jacobs. 513 Learned Court.
"We're spending money on weapons that we'll never be able to use," Jacobs said, citing the proposed MK5 missile system. It will be used in local nuclear disarmament groups.
"The greatest cause of inflation is spending money on arms, on weapons," she continued. "And, if we don't tackle inflation, our quality of life will be in crisis, unless we come to grips with this reality."
Large pieces of white paper, covered with lists of programs scheduled for the ax under the Reagan plan, adorned the library auditorium's south wall.
One of the programs—CETA, the federal government's Comprehensive Employment and Training Act—was specifically addressed by Zimmerman. The program allowed trained people for jobs that didn't exist," he said, adding that the program didn't train people for available occupations in computer programming and high-technology. CETA is scheduled to have more than $4 billion to budget a slash that will virtually eliminate the program.
"There's quite a difference between changing a program's emphasis and eliminating it," he said. "I don't know what the outcome of this is going to be."
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