Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naive Americans were especially gifted at fantasy. The surrealist cat created by an unknown artist, looming hugely out of a sea of grass with a bird in its mouth and its eyes on future victims, is as haunting as Alice's Cheshire-and more terrifying. Another unknown painter imagined a fantastic city of medieval towers and Renaissance palaces approached by a steam-propelled sailing ship of the very latest type around 1850-a vision of Europe, perhaps, by an artist who knew it only in his dreams...
...only thing remotely keeping pace with the weedlike growth of marijuana use in the U.S. is verbiage on the subject. What with books, magazines and talk shows, no man today is considered complete without an expressed opinion on grass. But little of the talk communicates a direct sense of what using pot is really like. How does it feel? What are the ways of getting high? How is grass obtained? This unpretentious little book, which has circulated in the pot subculture for the past four months and will soon be published as a regular paperback, comes up with just that...
...CHILD'S GARDEN OF GRASS by Jack S. Margolis and Richard Clorfene. 188 pages. Contact Books...
Authors Margolis and Clorfene, who are comedy writers and (they claim) nonusers, begin with the beginner and tell him what to expect. There is no initial kick or jolt from grass, they say, and "there is no way you are 'supposed' to feel." But among the feelings that may happen are a slow general euphoria, the discovery that everything is funny (even "your friend's teeth are a riot"), and a minute fascination with whatever little thing the smoker happens to be doing. Occasionally smokers are affected by a sense of paranoia, an inability to remember...
Obviously, Margolis and Clorfene are pot enthusiasts. Though they point out that the weed's long-term effects are still under hot scientific debate, the only serious dangers they discuss are legal.* But they do not puff the splendors in the grass in the old unwary Leary style. They state categorically, for instance, that "there is no such thing as a profound revelation while stoned." The book is not intended as a polemic; it is merely a report that, in addition to discussing the subjective feelings of being high, includes such how-to items as rolling a marijuana cigarette...