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Medical Effects

The section on the medical phase discusses
various drugs and drug categories, detailing the
dosage usually taken and the effects of using a
particular drug. Those drugs covered include
tobacco, narcotic analgesics (like opium, heroin
and codeine), sedatives, alcohol, hallucinogenics
(like LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin),
marijuana and amphetamines.

The potential dangers involved in use or
abuse of particular drugs, from a health
standpoint, are also included by the medical
students who prepared the chapter. Fourth-year
students Andy Barada, Jim Grotta and Steve
Keichel and second-yearman Paul Marino were
the contributors who collected the information
for the medical section of the pamphlet.

The chapter on the legal aspects of drug use,
compiled by six second-year law students,
includes sections on the Virginia Drug Control
Act, the Federal drug laws, and the state laws
of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and
New York.