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ON CAPITOL HILL, by David YEPSEN
Just Say ... What?
           Colleague Jon Roos reports that Congressman Greg Ganske, a
     physician, has found a good argument to use to convince young men
     not to smoke pot.  Ganske told an audience recently "about how
     marijuana has gotten stronger, how it leads to crack.  ... And I
     wasn't sure I was getting through to some of the kids, so I said,
     'By the way, you know when I was a physician, I used to take care
     of a fair number of young men who had breast enlargement.'"
           Although that can occur naturally during puberty, Ganske
     explained, frequent use of marijuana also can have that effect
     because it contains a feminizing type of hormone.
           "And furthermore, if you really smoke a lot of that I would
     always examine the boys' testicles because the testicles can get
     smaller.  So if any of you are concerned about getting larger
     breasts or smaller testicles, don't smoke marijuana."
DAVID YEPSEN is The Register's political editor.  His e-mail address is:
dyepsen@dmreg.com.
The Des Moines Register, Monday, November 4, 1996, Page 11A.
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