Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agribusiness began in 1973, when Oregon's legislature reduced the penalty for possession of less than an ounce of the weed to no jail sentence and a maximum $100 fine. Bookstores soon reported a brisk trade in manuals like The Complete Guide to Growing Marijuana. Cultivation still remains a crime punishable by a maximum ten years in jail and a $2,500 fine, but the more tolerant law on possession seemed to wilt the ardor of anti-dope investigators. "The police just don't care as much since the state decriminalized possession of less than an ounce," says one grower...
Completing the harvest is no easy task. Windfall loot has spawned violent crime. Crop thefts and armed robberies now loom as more ominous threats than police busts. "The paranoia gets so thick around here in October that you could cut it with a knife," says an Oregon grower...
...bodies of the Vietnamese were piled "yea high." He holds his hand above his head in illustration. But devotion to country only goes so far. Outside Lowell House, Richardson's 1971 Chevy Impala has a bumper sticker on it summing up his attitudes about where the country is heading. "CRIME WOULDN'T PAY," the bumper sticker reads, "IF THE GOVERNMENT...
...same time, the prewar prisoner population of 15 million was swollen by the arrival of millions of young Red Army veterans. Most were survivors of the Nazi P.O.W. camps whom Stalin had dispatched to the Gulag for the crime of having been captured. Though Solzhenitsyn had never been taken, he belonged to this new breed of camp rebels; a much decorated artillery captain, he had been arrested at the front for having written letters critical of Stalin. Leadership of the resistance movement was provided by prisoners from the western Ukraine, former guerrilla fighters who had alternately fought the Nazis...
...Lincoln. Rhode Island's senators breezily adopted a resolution praising the hairdo of a female legislator, but the house turned aside a proposal to decree ricotta the State Cheese. In Florida, the legislature recently indulged in boisterous repartee over a measure that would have made it a crime to molest the "skunk ape," a mythical critter occasionally sighted around the state that is said to stand 7 ft. tall, weigh 700 lbs. and smell like swamp...