Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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. Soon after the legislature's action, police stumbled upon more than an acre of pot near a shed stocked with drying racks, bags and labels with the brand name...
...northern California, where Humboldt County police claim that pot cultivation jumped this year by 500%. In small towns like Garberville, marijuana has assumed an influential role in local business. Says Ted Kogon, owner of the Evergreen Natural Foods and Access Store: "Every shop along Main Street is underwritten with dope money." Hyperbole perhaps, but many local citizens are convinced that the weed has boosted prosperity. "If it's ever legalized, it will be a great industry for this county," asserts Rick Nelson, managing editor of the regional daily Times-Standard...
Harvard considered joining the City of Cambridge in an--er--joint effort to test marijuana for traces of paraquat, a poisonous herbicide used by he Mexican government in its anti-pot campaign, which may cause severe lung damage in anyone who smokes treated dope. The University, however, had to weigh its concern for student health against the state's contention that the dope testing would be illegal, and held off from full cooperation with the city. "There is a question of violating the law--we're in marijuana never-never land on this one." University Counsel Dan Steiner '54 admitted...
...track, whether or not he is scheduled to work a horse. He breakfasts in the track kitchen, then kills the hours between daylight and early afternoon post time in the jockeys' quarters. He changes into white breeches, boots and T shirt and studies the Daily Racing Form to dope out the day's competition. Cauthen also spends a good deal of time with his agent, Lenny Goodman, a shrewd, showy horseman up from the streets of Brooklyn. (Cauthen's earnings, about $750,000 in two years so far, go home to his father, who has a New York financier investing...
...nearest Video Library and pull out the spliced-together copies of the Huntley-Brinkley report, of the CBS Evening News. He will need to watch the ARVN soldiers dangling from beneath helicopters on the retreat from Laos the way we did, watch G.I. s smoking dope in the barrels of M-16 s. He'll need to see the expressions on the children's faces as the cops in riot gear bash their friends. And to understand Richard Nixon, he'll have to study that damned upper lip and hear him say, "We could pull out--but that would...