Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that grass should be legally available to people over 18 years old in cigarettes of controlled potency. No attempt is made to contend that marihuana is actually beneficial. . Rather, the argument for legalization is based on Grinspoon's conclusion that cannabis is-both psychologically and physiologically-less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco...
Never before and probably never again will the legend Fitzgerald created for himself and for his era have more commercial allure. Nostalgia, we are told, is in. So is art deco. Alcohol is making a comeback on the college campus, according to the New York Times . And women's liberation, one of our honest national issues, can rightly claim Zelda as an early casualty to male chauvinist pigdom...
...real or imagined, of a Government bust. A sort of Castroesque paranoia set in; the "Alcatraz Security Force,"complete with special jackets and a "training" room off limits to outsiders, for a time was rude and overweening even to sympathizers sincerely trying to help. Though supposedly prohibited, drugs and alcohol became staples of island life. Petty jealousies simmered and bloody brawls exploded. One Indian artist tried to set up a studio only to be burned out by several of his estranged comrades...
Penniless and alone, old beyond his 45 years, he died of alcohol poisoning 17 months ago in a dingy London flat. Friends scraped up enough money for embalming and burial, but they could not send the body back to Uganda so long as Milton Obote, the man who had deposed King Freddie, remained President. After Obote was overthrown last January by General Amin, the new President made plans to bring the Kabaka's body home to strengthen his support among the Baganda, the country's largest tribe...
...complain that rigid, archaic regulations have blocked them from following the changing attitudes and tastes of the nation's 93 million liquor drinkers. Now, some of the rules are being relaxed, partly to enable domestic distillers to meet growing foreign competition. As a result of decisions by the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division of the Internal Revenue Service, the American liquor business is in its greatest period of ferment since repeal...