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Doris Perna, MD
Beverly Hills, Calif

JAMA. 1970;214(4):760.

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To the Editor.—

The case report of an acute psychotic reaction secondary to marihuana use, submitted by Dr. Persyko (212:1527, 1970), is a welcome addition to the literature. It is essential that such cases be documented so as to clarify the issue about the effects of this drug.

I would, however, like to take issue with his minimization of both the extent of use and the severity of reactions to this drug. A more extensive search of the literature would have uncovered that marihuana use is not limited to a "subculture on the fringe," but cuts across all boundaries of age, social, economic, and educational levels of our society.¹

Relating the "scarcity of descriptions of marihuana psychosis" to the "mildness of marihuana effects" and the "transient nature of marihuana psychosis" is not a statement of fact, and is dangerously misleading. In the older, as well as the more . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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