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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...street pusher, it is in one-ounce lots of 25% heroin?the rest is usually milk sugar or quinine?that cost the pusher $500 each. The pusher further cuts the diluted drug into glassine packets of 5% heroin, which he sells for $5 each?the so-called "nickel bag"?to the user. The original kilo has now grossed $225,000 for suppliers, traffickers, pushers and peddlers. The first user often splits the nickel bag into even smaller quantities that he resells for $2 or $3, making a profit that he himself can use to help support his habit. Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kids and Heroin: The Adolescent Epidemic | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...with popping corks. As your dinner companions chat about "bulging adipose tissue" and "draining metabolic pools," it's reassuring to discover that you are only sipping carbonated water with grape flavoring. Afterward, resisting an urge to drink the finger bowl, you wait like an addict for a "people bag" with a tiny apple inside -a fix for those late-night withdrawal pangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: In Search of the New You | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...weight the next day. you come home after practice and you can't eat or drink. So you go up to your room. lie on your bed. and think about the food and drink you're missing and about the upcoming match. Thank God. I'm not into that bag this year. I'd rather wrestle the big guys." Abbott said...

Author: By Martin R. Garay, | Title: Marty Goes Wrestling With the Champ; It's No Fun When You're Down and Out | 2/27/1970 | See Source »

...committee was treated to a demonstration that the laws are selectively enforced. Debby Vollmer, a member of Worchester Women's Liberation, opened an innocent-looking brown paper bag and held up a package of contraceptive foam she had bought in a drug store down the street. She pointed out that drug stores and department stores throughout the state sell contraceptive items to anyone, a violation of the law which the state ignores. At the same time Bill Baird is sentenced to prison for giving contraceptive foam to an unmarried woman...

Author: By Marion E. Mccollom, | Title: The Hearing-Goer Birth Control | 2/26/1970 | See Source »

...edicts returned by our higher courts. You cannot smoke in the fencing room without offending fire marshals, the disciplinary committee, and sign painters. Coaches instructing players got argued with on certain points of technique. Little lost children and stray dogs visited briefly. Coach Marion consumed several sandwiches and a bag of doughnuts. Electronic gadgets rigged to register touches several times broke down beyond attendant Jock's understanding. Fencers, upon completing their individual duties, dressed hurriedly and departed for other amusements. There were those on the sidelines who envied them. (??) the Trinity lads

Author: By Larry L. king, | Title: Kids, stray dogs, coke repairman thrill as fencers stick it to Trinity | 2/11/1970 | See Source »

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