Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absurdity of such legislation in a community where a large majority of undergraduates and hundreds of grad students, faculty and staff have sampled the evil weed; where the Dean of the College can provide a reasonably accurate estimate of the going price of an ounce of good dope; where President Pusey, at a Harvard House dinner last year, delivered his traditional speech while one table of students passed around a pipe full of glowing grass; where President-elect Bok sat last weekend at a dinner in Holvoke Center and watched the guests of honor pass a joint under his nose...
...current marijuana legislation is not a joke. Dope laws are used selectively to punish political "criminals" like John Sinclair, a White Panther leader who has been locked away for several years on a very minor marijuana offense. The New York Times reports the suicide during a bust of an Alabama student who faced jail on a second marijuana offense. Sitting in our dorms it is often difficult to remember that thousands of other Americans are sitting in jail for committing the "crime" of getting stoned with their friends...
...freshman proposed financing an antiwar, antidraft drive through a 10 per cent surcharge on all dope dealing. "It would provide antiwar revenue and a moral justification for smoking," he said...
...display, an editorial in the November 1969 issue of Progressive Labor magazine described the Black Panther-sponsored conference to form a "united front against fascism" as follows: "Except for a few pro-working class people and a scattering of rank-and-file Panthers, what an assortment the rest were: dope addicts, hippies, yippies, freaks, and pot heads...
...people pushing to legalize dope- Dealing's dedication reads, "To the lawmakers of our great land: Play This Book LOUD" -the Crichtons are not very convincing. Their freaks are as contemptible as their pigs. And when Harkness, driving stoned, nearly wrecks his car, one wonders which side this book's on. Is it all a put-on? Most reviewers, like the one in the New York Times, thought the book was a plea to abolish anti-marijuana laws. But Peter Harkness, like the narrator of "They Grind Exceeding Small," antagonizes more than he convinces. The message of the book...