Word: dope
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't smoke much dope in the '60s. Pot sent me into giggling fits, and I feared the loss of control. My addiction was alcohol, which was approved by the same Establishment that was bent on criminalizing marijuana. My kids saw that, and they developed an acute sensitivity to hypocrisy. It took me many years to stop drinking and live without such addictions. When I did, that was a better lesson than any words I could have preached to them...
...noticed the toll taker's badge and asked, "Hey, are you the Tommy Facenda who sang High School U.S.A.?") Bennett opposed the Vietnam War, but he respected the men who served there. He grew sickened by much of what he saw at Harvard: privileged youth skipping class to smoke dope and watch soap operas, and twisting the antiwar movement into an attack on America. Like another former Democrat, Ronald Reagan, Bennett thought less that he was turning right than that his party was turning crazy...
...seemed jinxed. In the summer of '63, my family and friends were booked for a high-level seminar with Leary and Richard Alpert at the International Foundation for Internal Freedom's paradise in Zihuatanejo. As we bustled through San Francisco Airport to our Mexicana flight, we saw the headline: DOPE DOCTORS ARRESTED AT MEXICO MANSION. So much for paradise...
...nothing because it gives me pleasure...Most of the ailments of people come from eating too much...Salt is one of the best things for the teeth. And also for the hair...I do not believe in charity...There is something sacred about wages...Reading can become a dope habit...To say it plainly, the great majority of women who work do so in order to buy fancy clothes...A man learns something even by being hanged.'" --March...
Making billions is only half the drug baron's task; the other is figuring out what to do with them. Trucks and cars carrying huge amounts of drug money continually cross into Mexico from the U.S. "They're bringing in tons of dope," says Thomas Constantine of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "There's no reason they can't take tons of money back the same way, in bulk cash." Of all the Mexican drug barons, Garcia Abrego was probably the cleverest at figuring out ways to introduce such tons of cash into the financial system without drawing attention...