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Guthrie's lyrics celebrate a popular underground myth: that the U.S. is a tough drug scene compared with countries abroad, where the laws are loose and the hash is cheap. Though it is true that a "key" (kilo) of hashish may cost as little as $10 or $20 in Lebanon or Morocco, the price for many young American smugglers turns out to be almost unbearably high. All along the "trade routes" by which narcotics make their way back to Europe and the U.S., young Americans are filling up a veritable Baedeker of prisons...
What Sam returned with they laid out on the table under the flickering candles. Small tinfoil packages of hash like Christmas tree ornaments. Half-full Baggies of grass carefully rerolled and taped. Capsules, many tabs, which shivered and bobbed to the touch...
...bronze statues of the Rana prime ministers. A new $2 million royal palace was rushed to completion to dazzle an anticipated crush of 3,000 foreign guests. The Nepalese cleared out the shaggiest of the Western hippies, who come to Katmandu to get high on the altitude and cheap hash, and they brought in more than 100 German and Japanese cars to handle the guests. Government offices were cleared from the old 1,200-room Palace of the Lion to make room for the bride's sizable family...
...suit N.A.'s different objective. Thus, in A.A.'s Step 1-"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol"-the last word has been replaced by "our emotions." Unlike formal group therapy, in which the meetings are supervised by a professional, N.A. meetings are little more than hash sessions. Problems are ventilated in a climate deliberately kept free of critical judgment. Every day the N.A. member promises himself that "I will criticize not one bit, and not try to improve anybody except myself...
Another added, "I'm really sorry to see him put away. And I hate to see all that beautiful hash put away. But, even in his exit, Ravi pulled a beautiful...