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Interviews with sixty-two Americans in their twenties, mostly students, demonstrate that those who smoked marijuana moderately differed little in personality from those who did not indulge, but that heavy smokers of marijuana were rather less conventional. The smokers tended to drink little alcohol.
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ZINBERG, N., WEIL, A. A Comparison of Marijuana Users and Non-users. Nature 226, 119–123 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226119a0
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