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THE BATTALION Page 9 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1980 I? if V- i?■", ' v. , ■ ■ ' : . ntspot pills to fight nausea r mpaign pm 1, “I don’t igis that the! iut now we 11 don’t thinl) t that, ilize, itisven ire ig to cure | problems am n’t go away le to solve tlti : her esident, Mis. not true, 14 United Presi International |HOUSTON — M.D. Anderson hospital Wednesday received its first shipment of synthetic marijuana pills to be used by cancer patients to combat nausea caused by che motherapy treatments, officials : announced. )r. Fred Conrad, vice president ir patient care, said 1,200 capsules ived from the National Cancer In- :ute and will be available to pa ints who sign a consent form in- iting they understand the possi- lb side effects of the laboratory- uced pot. Conrad listed the side effects of synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol ated. I onot / Carter, lllri ■ against the si the Iranian - the principal and most active ing- dient in marijuana — as “mostly owsiness, probably a headache.” There may be some uncoordina ted in d e would when she In louse. flans to support legislation tion,” he added. “A patient shouldn’t drive within 24 hours. Their eyes will probably get somewhat red and they may get a ‘high’ which may be a feeling of happiness, everything seems fine, an inappropriate inter pretation of what’s going on around them. They also can become de pressed or hallucinate, the usual tox- icities that go along with marijuana, anxieties, fear and so on.” He said the average dose for women will be about 7.5 milligrams and the average for men will be ab out 10 milligrams. Patients will re ceive five or six doses per che motherapy treatment. Dosage is de termined by body surface, or size. Conrad said the recipients of the synthetic marijuana will be chosen this week from patients on che motherapy who have been using the standard anti-nausea drugs. “When the patients come back starting this week we will ask if they are getting sufficient relief,” he said. “If they say no, that they are still vomiting, we will ask if they are will ing to try the experimental drug THC. If they say yes, we will give them the prescription and tell them about the side effects, tell them it might be ineffective. They have to sign a consent form and can pick up the prescription at the (hospital) pharmacy at no cost.” Conrad said a course of che motherapy usually causes a patient to suffer nausea for 18 hours. M.D. Anderson doctors and the hospital pharmacy were approved for the program last month by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. NAACP to probe black shootings PTA battles drugs in schools United Press International NEW ORLEANS — The NAACP will establish a task force to investi gate the shootings of four blacks by police officers because it feels the police should not be trusted to inves tigate themselves. “We’re here to see that the truth comes out,” New Orleans NAACP chapter president Shirley Porter told reporters Tuesday. “We feel other, outside people investigating the police is better than police investi gating the police.” Many blacks have questioned police explanations of the four shoot ings last week in Algiers, including at least two witnesses who said Sherry Singleton, 26, was pleading for her life when she was shot. One man, Reginald Ferdinand, was shot during an attempted drug arrest. Miss Singleton and two men, James Billy Jr. and Reginald Miles, were killed in separate raids while police tried to arrest Billy and Miles on charges of murdering patrolman Greg Neupert. Porter and Alison Chapital, NAACP chapter vice president, said they had not decided who would serve on the task force or how many members it would have. It will conduct its investigation by “going to the people” and turn its findings over to District Attorney Harry Connick, they said. “We know we will not get all of the information from the police depart ment,” Chapital said. “Their track record is poor.” The NAACP said it had no specific evidence of police wrongdoing and urged residents to remain calm de spite an “enormous increase” in murder. v “This present climate of suspicion and hysteria could degenerate into an atmosphere that could only be likened to the Old West, where the law of the jungle prevailed, even among those dedicated to enforcing the law,” Porter said. ton United Prcis International EL PASO, Texas — The 710,000 mber Texas Congress of Parents P Teachers has joined business- m Ross Perot in his support of islation aimed at reducing the dis- mtion of illegal drugs to school dents. store built j> erot) w h 0 gained national atten- tone struct® ^ y ear f or organizing the suc- 1 desl S n L st f sful extradition of two of his em- ix months ate y ees Xuesday told an ore that is staii. j mate( j i gQO delegates attending les from Bffl , organization’s 71st annual con- .ersection tJLon that he and his advisers have 1 Farm RoaJi an g ec j f or the introduction of a nd the stote: te ] e gj s l a tive program “that will oviding a Ci t ma j or dealers j n jail forever v of stands ek j ta £ e their money and put it in he creek Dai , s t a t e treasury. ” all turning Id pretty,” Mu' Hie program will be introduced the three m ring the session of the Legislature store on a rig)! it begins in January, he said. If we get our way,” he said, “we see the end of drug problems in state.” McClure anJl e business g| 5;30p.in.sinli on to 5:30 pi ill pretty geif| ir line ofg iold items sutl rockery to tlti) t does not f s or hardwfj fishing I ’erot said support from the state fA organization would aid in pas- ;e of the program. "How would you like to he a mem- irofthe Legislature voting against something that the mothers of Texas want?” he said. Some items included in the plan are a minimum five-year prison term for adults convicted of selling drugs to children, minimum jail terms of 15 years for those convicted of selling drugs in mass quantity, seizure and forfeiture of all transportation vehi cles found to be involved in the transportion of illegal drugs and out lawing the sale of drug parapher nalia. Additionally, the legislative prop osals encourage permanent suspen sion of the professional license of a physician found guilty of a drug- related felony. One provision of the plan calls for the reporting by physi cians and pharmacies of names and addresses of patients receiving pre scriptions for narcotic drugs. The proposals were developed by the Texans’ War on Drugs Commit tee, created two years ago by Gov. Bill Clements. Perot chairs the com mittee. In other action, convention dele gates approved a measure seeking state reimbursement to school dis tricts for revenue lost in state- approved tax exemptions. Delegates also approved a proposal calling for competency testing of student teachers. The three-day convention con cluded Wednesday. Two killed in Victoria plane crash United Press International VICTORIA — A single-engine plane did a nose-dive into a north west Victoria County pasture, killing the two men aboard, the Depart ment of Public Safety said. The victims of the Tuesday crash were identified as Gene Arthur Mooney, 49, the pilot, and Henry Calvin Simpson Jr., 31, a student pilot. Both were from Victoria. 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