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...hooked lemmings will drown themselves in spite of all our frantic efforts to save them, thus canceling some of the population explosion, while the other 50%, "squares" too smart to kill themselves on dope, will survive to run the country...
When Bruce's father discovered his habit, he sent him to live for a time with relatives in rural Virginia ("Even there I managed to get dope"). A year ago, Bruce's father brought him back to Harlem and placed him immediately in the Addicts Rehabilitation Center, an overcrowded, financially squeezed but markedly successful operation run by an ex-addict named James Allen. After nine months at A.R.C., Bruce enrolled at Harlem Prep...
...once. Mama isn't fooled by much, and so she undertook, with suspicious curling about her mouth, to tell Merilee the following: ". . . and those hippic girls you know, they're such dope fiends they get so hopped up on their dope you know what they do? they forget their own little babies and leave them in the streets that's what they do you know...
When they had set out for Mexico, Merilee had been worried they wouldn't find any dope right away so she had scrounged around and gotten together some exorbitantly-priced lids. These she dumped into a saucepan of butter. When heated, the butter separated, the white stuff and the weed went down and the clarified stuff, or ghee, and the essence of the marijuana surfaced. Cooled and solidified, the clear part was scooped into an oil can which came to Mexico cradled in the spare tire. A dab made Merilee and Sam happier until noon and everybody else none...
...spreads among vandals, and "midnight plumbers" move in to tear out everything that can be sold. A Baltimore housing official describes the process: "On the first night, the building is looted. With the plumbing gone, the building is no longer habitable. The next night, or soon, the kids on dope slide in. Then the neighborhood's apprentice arsonist pays a visit." Such social disorder is infectious and it is often the prime factor that impels law-abiding ghetto dwellers to flight...