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Novembef 17, 1978
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The Panther
Marijuana Effects
Can Be Damaging
By Lillie M. Lewis
Panther Staff Writer
When a person uses a small
amount of marijuana in
frequently the effects on the
brain are difficult to detect, ac
cording to recent methods
medical researchers have
used.
According to John Hardin,
author of “Sensual Drugs,”
long term use and high doses
of marijuana can cause
irreversible changes outside of
the brain. However, recent
evidence indicated that
duration of use rather than
size of the dose determines the
degree of chromosome damage
and suppression of the im
munity system.
Some of the common effects
of regular users include:
memory impairment,
(personal) mood changes, and
sleep disturbances. Both the
psychological and physical
symptoms may clear up within
a week or two after dis
continuation of the use of the
drug. However, even after
prolonged use of marijuana
has completely stopped by the
smoker, it takes months for the
active ingredient THC to leave
the body.
The more heavily a smoker
uses marijuana the greater the
probability that he or she may
use a more powerful drug.
Medical evidence has shown
that marijuana conditions the
user rather than a non-user
who uses alcohol to use other
powerful drugs.
Some reasons as to why
marijuana smokers escalate to
more powerful drugs are: A
drug user may become in
volved in a drug oriented en
vironment where many other
types of drugs are available.
Peer pressure can cause the
young marijuana smoker to be
influenced by the enticing pos
sibility of greater pleasure. A
more powerful drug can mask
the restlessness, sleeplessness,
and agitation of withdrawal
from marijuana.
Finally, according to
medical researchers, people
equate alcohol with mari
juana, but the fact is that the
two drugs are not equivalent
and should not be compared
this way.
‘Blacks’ Earn
Rousing Applause
Lavish costuming adds spice and flavor to Genet’s “The
Blacks” at the Academy Theatre. (Photo by Herbert
Holmes)
By A. Lineve Wead
Panther Co-Editor
Denise L. Green
Panther Feature Editor
If we had the chance to sit through another production of
“The Blacks,” we would because this play was directed by
Walter Dallas to “freak the audience out,” according to the
director. The only thing is that Dallas did not prepare us
enough for this wildly fantastic play.
Written by Frenchman Jean Genet, it was aimed at op
pressed people, and not really at blacks. Dallas took this play
and brought together a cast which mystified the whole
audience up until the last dramatic scene, with the whites suc
cumbing to blacks. This was definitely a production that took
one through many changes because of the emotion-filled ac
ting done by the performers.
From the moment the play began to the last minute, the
audience was very attentive to the facts revealed in the play.
Basically, we gathered the play showed “Everything that
blacks do has to be a show.” It was a very unusual way to show
blacks’ insensitivity because this play illustrated many black
emotions, from split personalities to insensitivity, sex, lust,
and other underlying emotions the audience could decipher.
Portraying the white missionary, Dallas acted in this
production with the smoothness that has earned him his right
to occupy the space in the Alliance Theater with dignity. He
evoked a round of applause from the audience, but not nearly
as much as the white judge, played by Gwen Nelson. Ms.
Nelson took this role and molded it into the best portrayal of a
white naive woman, who is supposedly angelic in nature, that
either of us have seen.
The individual characters who portrayed blacks neces
sitates joining them into one group; each character built the
other character’s role. This enjoyable soliloquy from each
character, Archibald, Timothy Broden; Village, Victor
Thomas; Snow, Beulah Lindsay, Bobo, Veda Kimber; Virtue,
Lolita Woodward; encouraged the audience to become more in
volved with the character. There was surely a character in this
play with whom the audience could easily identify. “Blacks”
has characters of religion, honesty, “Uncle Tom” bravery,
smart-mouthness, chicken/warrier, revolution, and woman
of the world.
Categorizing this play would be as hard as categorizing
Dallas; both are not ready for critics to place them in a definite
arena but both are ready to present to Atlanta the most
unusual black theater offered.
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At the Movies...
Movie Offers Fun and Games
By Gloria Johnson
Panther Reporter
Remember the time when
the good guys always won and
the bad guys always lost? Well,
this legend is kept alive in
Goin’ South with the excep
tion that the good guys are
playing the bad guys and the
bad guys are playing the good.
Strange? You bet it is. Funny?
Out of this world and into
another one.
It seemed as though Henry
Moon’s (Jack Nicholson) luck
ran out when he was captured
and sentenced to hang for
horse thievery.
While standing on the
gallows with a black hood over
his face, the only^thing that
could save him was either a
miracle or an unmarried
woman. According to an
ordinance, he was saved by
marrying a woman, a miracle
in disguise.
The unlucky bride was Julia
(Mary Steinburger), a gold
prospector’s daughter who
believed in extending her
father’s dream. After their
knot was tied and the rules of
marriage such as intoxication,
wife beating, and leaving town
were understood, it would seem
that they wouldn’t have any
problems. But the deputy and
the sheriff were constantly try
ing to catch Moon at breaking
these rules.
The marriage was a little
rocky at first, but speeded into
unquenchable love and
partnership when they found
gold in Julia’s mine. The gold
was put in a chest and
deposited in a bank.
Another problem rode up to
their door. Moon’s long lost
friends, the X-Moon gang
returns only to discover their
gold strike. When the gang ap
proached Moon concerning the
gold, he was upset because he
had lost his partnership and in
anger plotted to rob the bank
where the gold was deposited.
This plan shattered when
Julia changed her mind and
considered him a partner once
more.
Moon is faced with the
problem of talking the gang
out of robbing the bank. When
Julia sees Moon talking to the
gang, she assumes that they
are planning to rob the bank
and steal her gold. When he
finds that talking them out of
robbing the bank is useless,
Moon robs the bank alone.
What happens next is worth
the movie fare to go and see.
Goin' South is now playing
at the Greenbriar Theatre.
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