Reader Response

September, 1997

Puff and StuffDr. Lester Grinspoon and James Bakalar suggest in ''Smoke Screen'' (The Playboy Forum, June) that marijuana is an innocuous recreational drug that should be embraced as a medicine and household remedy. As usual, they tell only part of the story.Crude marijuana is unreliable in its absorption, and the dose delivered is unpredictable. The major active ingredient, THC, is already available as the oral prescription medication Marinol. If the oral delivery route is not useful for some p...