Marijuana Use by GIs in Viet Nam

EDWARD COLBACHAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 128, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.2.204

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A Senate subcommittee has tried to implicate the use of marijuana in the My Lai episode. Stirred by this, the mass media have given sensational attention to the use of marijuana by U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam. Reviewing the considerable professional literature on the subject, the author finds that marijuana smoking is a significant problem but not as serious as the mass media seem to imply.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 128 • Number 2 • August 1971

Pages: 204 - 207

PubMed: 5112946

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Published in print: August 1971

Published online: 1 April 2006

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EDWARD COLBACH

Director, Family Crisis Project, Columbia Region Association of Governments, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oregon Medical School, Portland, Ore.

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Marijuana Use by GIs in Viet Nam

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