Word: dope
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...Canada," adds Cheech, "the police use our films as training: how burned out you can get. When it comes to making films about drugs, if it wasn't us, it'd be somebody else. I believe there's good and bad dope," he continues, "If I believed dope was bad for you, well, you know..." and his voice trails off in a degenerate sigh...
AMERICAN HUMOR traditionally smells of liquor. There is no comic worthy of the Chateau de Ville who doesn't do a drunk routine, staggering, his speech slurring, his audience howling. But new markets are always opening up; in the last decade, dope has starred in a number of movies. Rarely has it played a bigger role than in Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, the touching story of three men, half a dozen women, and a duffle bag of marijuana...
...only if you ask, it's not everyone who gets to spend their nights on a park bench, awakened three or four times each night by the Boston Police, bothered by kids who won't let him enjoy his high in peace, who want to steal his dope or just jabber with him because they're still soaring...
...arrest," she says, "I was vacuuming and trying to get a splinter out of my toe. I thought it was a bad joke, people out side shouting, 'Open up! Federal agents.' This big crowd rushed in. They took my wedding pictures and they thought the rice was dope. They threatened I would never see my daughter again unless I turned state's witness. Would you like to see the cellar, where they claim there was a silencer factory...
Many youngsters, unable to find legitimate work, go underground, into off-the-books jobs or less savory activities. One Boston researcher discovered that half the idle youths he interviewed in a street-corner survey had engaged in some illegal activity, including dope peddling, robbery, pickpocketing and burglary...