A new movie called The Marijuana Conspiracy looks at a bizarre 1972 experiment wherein a group of young Canadian women were locked in a ward for several months and given lots of weed to smoke. Here’s a fascinating Toronto Star story about the experiment. Its results have never been disclosed.
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- Alcohol prohibition began a century ago. This essay in the New York Times argues prohibition supporters had more problems with the alcohol industry’s greed than with alcohol itself.
