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...plant. The male plant has no potency. Smoking of marijuana cigarets produces a state of intoxication similar to that induced by alcohol, stimulates playfulness, suppresses fear. Thousands are smoked in Harlem, in New Orleans, in other nightlife centres. In New Orleans many a schoolchild is said to be an addict; prison authorities find muggle-smuggling a perplexing problem. Federal authorities say that marijuana, though a drug, is not a narcotic drug and therefore its users cannot be prosecuted under the Harrison Act. So in Louisiana the Legislature passed its own antimarijuana law. In California, Cornetist Louis Armstrong ("world...
...grade Egyptians smoked hashish and opium, with little appreciable social harm. At the War's end a Greek chemist introduced cocaine to high Egyptian society. The middle classes took up the fad. Then came heroin. Now, it is estimated, one out of 28 Egyptians is a dope addict, and one out of 56 dazzles himself with heroin...
Delice and her father journey to the villa at Como to think things out. Prince Rezzonica, having a few affairs to keep going in various villas thereabouts, leaves his own place for weeks on end. Delice has discovered that he has become a drug addict and Dorn attempts to clear things up by talking to Rezzonica in no uncertain terms. The prince commits suicide. Dorn and Delice pack...
...brought together again in this rewrite of a stagey, old-fashioned melodrama. He is a rich man's wastrel son. She is a cabaret entertainer who is about to make a man of him, when they are separated. When they meet again she has become a drug addict and he is in the act of trading his fraternity ring for a bottle of booze. In a whirl of misty sentiment they work out each other's salvation. In addition to other faults there is far too much talk in the picture and both principals are ludicrously miscast. These...
...when nerves are drugged repeatedly they lose their recuperative powers. Increasingly large bits of the coagulation remain. Those bits cause a nervous irritation which only more of the drug (alcohol, narcotics) can allay?explanation of the addict's craving...