Word: cass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what seems now an oddly innocent time, the Federal Government encouraged the farmers of Cass County, Mich., to cultivate marijuana. It was known then as hemp, and thought to be useful mainly for the World War II production of rope. The farmers of Cass County and some other parts of the U.S. sowed the weed in home-front zeal...
When the U.S. discovered nylon rope, the farmers plowed under their cannabis, but the wild weed does not die easily. Each spring new plants appeared, and winds and birds carried the seed throughout Cass County. With the coming of the pot culture, the young developed an unexpected passion for farming, sneaking into Cass County's fallow fields by night to harvest the wild grass...
...Bureau of Narcotics has allocated $87,000 to induce the locals in Cass and ten other Midwestern counties to destroy their grass. Some of the agrarians worry that they might be sacrificing a golden goose. What, they ask, would happen if they killed off their marijuana-and found some day that it was legalized...
...orphan whose foster mother died when he was six, Kabran spent three years in a military school before dropping out. With him in apartment 9 at Stonehead Manor lived Gregory Walls: black, kindly, holding two jobs and studying scriptwriting at nights at Cass Technical High School. Another familiar figure in the apartment was Anthony Brown, a rootless youth who slept wherever there was a spare...
Scientology is growing. According to the Cambridge Center, the worldwide movement now has over three million members and increases six fold every year. The list of prominent Scientologists includes actor Stephen Boyd, Salvador Dali, Donovan, Mama Cass. Leonard Cohen, blues singer John Hammond, the Incredible String Band, two of the Gateful Dead, science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury, and others. If Scientology is actually the bridge to a world of super-things, there seem to be some exceptional people on that bridge now. You do want to be on the winning side, don't you? It's later than you think...