Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they look bleached. The Cielo Azul heights produce a pale plant known as Blue Sky Blond, developed as a hybrid two years ago with seeds from Thailand. Even the arid and low-lying fields of the Guajira peninsula, which are irrigated and farmed with tractors, grow a good green grass. The broiling sun forces the plants up to 15 ft. within six months and infuses them with an abundance of powerful resin. The emerging new drug-cultivation area is the Llanos plains, on the edge of the Amazon jungle, where pruning has improved the original coarse green cannabis...
...stays out of the mainstream now, after flirting with what fellow Folkie Utah Phillips calls "the folkscare" of the 1960s. It was then that he made a "disastrous" album that flung him up against the lower regions of the pop music business. "I saw the grass on its bottom and the rot in its timbers," he claims. "I decided I didn't want to be a part of that...
FICTION: Birdy, William Wharton Nostalgia for the Present, Andrei Voznesensky ∙The Coup, John Updike ∙The Flounder, Günter Grass ∙The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever ∙The World According to Garp, John Irving
...legislation sets strict safeguards about the distribution of the marijuana. "It's much easier for a patient to get grass on the street" than under the program, Goldstein said...
...Flounder, Günter Grass...