Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smuggling has long been a basic industry in Starr County-cotton during the Civil War, liquor during Prohibition, and in the last few years, Mexican narcotics. Ten to 20 tons of marijuana flow into the county each week, along with unknown amounts of heroin and cocaine. Almost daily, Mexican grass is trucked to the Rio Grande, loaded into sacks and placed on rafts or carried across the shallow river to Texas, only 40 yards away. Estimated value of the drug traffic: up to $5 million a week...
...possession of small amounts of marijuana has now been decriminalized in nine states, ranging from Alaska to Maine to California to Mississippi--the most recent. And the climate of opinion suggests that the grass may be growing greener in the Bay State within the next few years, if only in the figurative sense. Massachusetts House Bill 4914 would reduce a marijuana possession charge to the status of an ordinary traffic fine; and for the first time in history, a decriminalization bill stands a good chance of being reported out favorably from the Joint Committee on the Judiciary sometime in late...
James W. Lawson, co-coordinator of the Massachusetts branch of NORML, cites a more general sentiment among Bay State residents when he says: "People are coming to the conclusion that not just sleezy people smoke grass these days. Even in very conservative districts, they are coming to the conclusion that they don't want their kids going through the trauma of a court appearance and having something on their records over a lousy joint...
Finally we paid Manny's check and huddled in front of the airport gate on a muddy strip of grass. The rain rolled off our ponchos and into our sneakers. As executives back-seated in limousines drove past, we would display a hastily-constructed placard (Two Students Want Ride South) and smile, friendly but humble. Most stared ahead, lockjawed; a few were amused; one tapped his chauffeur, rolled down the window, and offered a ride to Indianapolis. Even New Jersey in the rain seemed preferable...
...infield glowed a natural green (Veeck ripped out artificial grass last spring). The infield brusher, a hopelessly complex machine that parodies overmechanization, glowed in luminescent pastels. "The place looks good," Veeck announced. "It's easier to turn fans off than on. A clean park doesn't bring in fans, but a dirty park keeps them away...