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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mendelson said Yesterday he found "no adverse effects" from marijuana use aside from slight weight gain and a change in lung function similar to that produced by cigarettes...
Through the act NORML currently is attempting to gain access to similiar studies on marijuana conducted by nine other defense and intelligence agencies, including the CIA, Meyers said...
...attacked them. The Hebrews also stoned to death any virgin raped within the city walls-on grounds that sound suspiciously modern: if the virgin had not wanted the sex, she would have screamed and been rescued in time. An Assyrian whose virgin daughter was raped was entitled to gain justice by raping the attacker's wife. The chivalry of medieval knights included the notion that unescorted women of the nobility could not be molested, but women of lower station were fair game...
...yoga, which combines practical exercises with meditation to achieve union with Brahma?the ultimate reality or Absolute. Yoga itself is the Sanskrit word for a yoking, or union. The various branches of Buddhist meditation?Zen and Tibetan, for example?usually require great discipline and concentration to try similarly to gain nirvana, that ineffable state of liberation and union with ultimate reality in which suffering is eliminated and compassion and wisdom are attained. "Transcendental Meditation does not reach the stage of giving you awareness of your real self," complains Dr. Kumar Pal, secretary of the Yoga Institute of Psychology and Physical...
...born Brahma, the Creator, to Vashishta, to Shakti, and to his son, Parashar, to Vyasa, to Shukadava . . . I bow down . . . At whose door the whole galaxy of gods pray for perfection day and night, adorned with immeasurable glory, preceptor of the whole world, having bowed down to him, we gain fulfillment...