Word: hash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murder missions. Thus, from a corruption of hashshashin, they added the word assassin to the language. What has since been learned about hashish suggests that while the crusaders may have been good fighters, they were rotten reporters. More likely, the bloodthirsty sheik, if he ever existed, gave his men hash after, not before, their exploits, during a period of rewarding rest and recreation in a perfumed garden peopled with houris...
...three years beginning in September 1968, Major Forest S. Tennant Jr. and Major C. Jess Groesbeck, at the U.S. Army hospital in Wurzburg, West Germany, had an "accessible, defined population" of 36,000 G.I.s, and a questionnaire indicated that no fewer than 16,000 of these had used hash at least once. The drug was more readily available than marijuana, and thousands of men were on it consistently enough to be dubbed "hashaholics" by their buddies. Of these, 720 presented themselves voluntarily, or were sent in by their commanding officers, because of resulting medical problems...
...most striking finding was the range of hash usage: most of the men smoked it, usually in a pipe, at a rate equivalent to the consumption of three or four reefers a day, one to three times a week. They achieved a marijuana high and suffered nothing worse than a "hash throat," with no obvious mental aftereffects. More than 100 others smoked from 2 oz. to 20 oz. a month, the equivalent of 500 to 5,000 marijuana cigarettes. These heavy users, say the doctors in the Archives of General Psychiatry, were in a "chronic intoxicated state marked by apathy...
...When the hash-only users were weaned of their habit (it is not a true addiction), they showed no lasting ill effects, but nearly all of those who went in for multiple drugs had to be returned to the U.S. for psychiatric treatment. In sum, the Army doctors conclude, hashish may induce a severe, long-lasting mental illness in individuals who are predisposed to schizophrenia, especially if it is used simultaneously with other powerful drugs. Some of the effects may resemble those that result from physical damage to the brain. In any case, heavy use leads to severe lung damage...
...seventh U.S. tour, which has been, in purely show-biz terms, a vast success. Every concert they have given has been packed solid, the tickets all sold weeks in advance; in San Francisco, the barter price for a $5.00 ticket was an ounce of grass and seven grams of hash, or, from scalpers, $50 cash; by Chicago, the price for a $6.50 ticket had risen to $70-accompanied by the rumor that someone had printed and sold a quarter of a million dollars' worth of fake tickets, which, mercifully, did not turn up at the gate...