Correspondence (Nahas)

Correspondence with Gabriel G Nahas, Professor of Anesthesiology, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, and author of 'Marihuana - Deceptive Weed' (1972), for which Paton supplied a preface (ts text in file): "The anaesthetist, perhaps more than any other clinician, has for his daily activity the quantitative examination of the effects of drugs, given intravenously or by inhalation, in the human body. It is this realistic, medically responsible, approach that gives this book a freshness of outlook in a controversial field. Dr Nahas has come to the conclusion, which I share, that the innocuousness of cannabis is being overstated, and its dangers underestimated." (Preface extract.) Apart from brief letters from 1991-92, most of the correspondence is from 1971-83. Paton was one of three symposium chairmen for the Satellite Symposium of the Sixth International Congress of Pharmacology, held at Helsinki, 26-7 July, 1975, with the title 'Marihuana: Methods of Detection, Kinetics, Biochemical and Cellular Effects'. The theme of the symposium was instigated by Nahas. The file also includes Nahas, 'EURAD Public Lecture on Cannabis' (Dublin, 1990) and the text of Nahas, "Drugs, the brain and the law" (with Paton's corrections) revised as Nahas and Paton, "Legalization of drugs and its impact on human health" (1991).

1971-1983, 1992

1 file (in 2 parts)

Correspondence with Nahas forms the first alphabetical component of the 'N' correspondence sequence.