Show Moss Asks Research Program j To Marihuana Effects Sen Frank E Moss 1 DUt D Utah hJ warned the United States Sen ate Thursday that the increase In the use of marihuana cannot be controlled without a greatly Improved Improve research program DECLARING that present I projects lire are minimal Sen al- al alarmed alarmed Moss said I am frankly armed by the figures I see on the growth of use of marihuana The most revealing figures come from California because of its new Drug Abuse Control Amendments The state slate reo re ported that adult dru drug arrests in 1950 an of I per cent over 01 1965 Mari Mari- Marihuana accounted for nearly half of the arrests which were made Among juveniles the therise therise rise was even more dramatic Dru Drug arrests In general cd edi p r cent erit Be w r l li 1966 but the number of juven lies arrested for marihuana In In- In Increased creased per cent Mari Mari- Marihuana Marla arrests combined with some dangerous drug ar ar- ar arrests rests accounted for 95 per cent of all juvenile drug arrests In California during 1966 SENATOR MOSS praised a color television recent long hour Ion documentary on in Salt Lake City concerning the problem of to today's ays ay's young pea peo pIe and the use of narcotics lIe Ie reported that drew its conclusions from material supplied by the narcotics squad of the Los Angeles Police De- De Department Their findings fell In to four areas First marihuana causes a significant loss of depth perception tion because of the extreme dil dil- estion of the pupils of the eyes Second marihuana causes a loss of inhibitions but not in inthe inthe the same way as alcohol The example that was used was the fact that four martinis willi will give you a pius four plus four loss of I Inhibitions a as opposed to a plus len loss from two inhalations inhalations of a marihuana cigarette Third there Is a loss of space time relationship Fourth the use of marihuana develops an Incipient inherent in the user I HE ADVANCED two main maina a venues avenues that should be pursued e ed 1 1 We need to make exten exten- extensive sive studies of the state of chronic users of marihuana so sowe sowe we can determine the extent to whiCh such use pro produces uces lingering psychological or blob blob- ej 8 eat haa ha nl 2 We need to update with I modern methods studies of the use and of users of marihuana in countries where the use is endemic such as In the Middle East and India We have no such use long patterns among large groups of people in this country and research In a country where marihuana has been used for centuries woul would give us the typo type of information lion tion we want fully and cur cur- currently currently We do not believe at this time for example that the use of marihuana is habit form form- forming Ing But there may be varying degrees of psychic dependence on it its This we should know and know in detail Son Sen Moss concluded by ex pressing his concern for the In- In Increasing in- in increasing creasing Use of marihuana es es- es especially among the youth of the nation |