Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coed Revalee Maase puts it: "When I was in high school, I smoked a lot of grass. Everybody did. But up here I've lost the need-I'm on the best high I've ever had, just working with these kids. It's so intensive, we've been getting to know each other so well that we lose all sense of time...
...some people can have a bad time with dope. Acid can make you flip out. One classmate of mine was disowned by his wealthy parents after he got busted from school for using grass. He started to do acid every day by shooting [with a hypodermic needle] and snorting [inhaling the powder], and he started to deal [push it, sell it] too. His parents thought he was going insane, and they talked of committing him. So he ran away from home. Nobody knows where he is now. Also, another cat I know got busted in Carmel [Calif.] for using weed...
RASHLY, perhaps, I decided to risk the multiple legal and professional dangers of smoking pot. But how to find the stuff? My first discovery was that one turns out to have a lot of Jekyll-Hyde friends, who jekyll in the straight world and hyde when they are smoking grass...
Next came the props. These are purchasable at hundreds of "head" shoos -those freaky emporia with psychedelic posters in the windows and incense pouring out of the door. I stopped at the grass counter and asked for some regular white Zig-Zag cigarette-rolling papers. Friends had also suggested a Rizla rolling machine if I felt too clumsy to roll my own. Another important purchase was a roach clip, used to hold the "roach" or butt of the joint after it has burned down and concentrated all those good resins...
Then I went home and waited for the right mood. Almost any will do, although it's best not to smoke if you're extra anxious or depressed, since grass can amplify these feelings. I was also warned to be careful if I mixed pot in food-Alice B. Toklas brownies or "apple turn-on." These concoctions can take as long as two hours to have any effect, and if you get impatient and eat more, you can start feeling paranoid and even vomit. I learned to smoke with friends. Pot is best when shared with other people...