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- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 22:14:17 +1300
- From: Brandon Hutchison <b.hutchison@cantva.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Subject: Nahas paper attacked
- To: drctalk-l@netcom.com
- Message-id: <01HI8RWQZZMAA0UL9Z@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
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- > >I'm working on a book about drug policy and I'm interested in more detail
- > >about Gabriel Nahas. Who has done the best critique of his arguments?
- >
- > The latest is probably 'The human toxicity of marijuana: a critique of a
- > review by Nahas and Latour' by JC Christie and GB Chesher, Drug and Alcohol
- > Review 1994; 13:209-216. The authors' address is: Department of
- > Pharmacology, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
-
- Have just photocopied that article.
- Here is the abstract for those interested...
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- "Drug and Alcohol Review (1994) 13:209-216
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- Commentary
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- The human toxicity of marijuana: a critique of a review by Nahas and Latour.
-
- by Macdonald J. Christie & Greogory B. Chesher
- Department of Pharmacology,University of Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
-
- Abstract
-
- A review entitled "The human toxicity of marijuana" was published in 1992
- in the Medical Journal of Australia. The authors claimed that the adverse
- effects of cannabis use have been trivialised and that the effects are
- much more serious than earlier reported. We have made a careful study of this
- review and examined the claims made. We compared the claims of the authors
- with the information contained in the documents they cited and found that
- at least 28 of the 35 citations in this article were cited inaccurately.
- Five of these publications were misquoted,or the findings of the study
- were not fully reported. Twenty-three citations contained other errors,
- leaving only six to eight (two citations could not be traced because of
- their obscurity) accurate citations among the 35. All of these inaccuracies
- operated in the direction of finding an adverse effect of marijuana.
-
- Introduction
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- It is not a pleasant task to make an open criticism of a paper by colleagues,
- but we feel compelled to do so in the case of a paper published in the Medical
- Journal of Australia in 1992.. . etc "
-
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- Brandon Hutchison,University of Canterbury, Christchurch
- New Zealand
- (Long 172deg35min00sec,Lat43deg31min13sec south)
-