Word: hashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drugs. In one survey of 3,500 men, 46% admitted to some level of drug use. High-grade hashish imported from the Middle East or North Africa is easily available at $1.25 a gram (v. up to $15 a gram in the U.S.). Although heavy hash users rarely become violent, they often wind up in the stockade as a result of apathy and loss of memory that make them incapable of obeying orders...
Western fads are not tolerated. After the surly, green-uniformed customs officials have finished their examinations, visitors arriving at Tirana's bucolic, one-strip airport are immediately advised that socialist Albania frowns on long hair, shorts or deep décolletage. "We don't need hash, long hair or jazz music," one crew-cut student told a modishly dressed but severely disillusioned Italian Maoist in our group, pointing to his body-hugging Via Veneto shirt, bell-bottom jeans and wide belt. "A socialist does not dress like an American cowboy." A Swedish girl, who ventured...
...undressing for a nude dip in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool during an antiwar demonstration. She solved the problem of how to protect half a gram of hashish by depositing it in her left ear. How to extract the wad became another problem; amateur efforts pushed the dampened hash deeper into the external auditory canal. She had to go to the George Washington University Hospital emergency room, where the staff performed what Piemme terms a "hashishectomy." Though the girl claimed not to have smoked either hash or marijuana that day, she said that she felt high. She also showed signs...
...expect much aid. All a U.S. consul can do is help them find a lawyer and notify their parents. At last count there were 747 young Americans in foreign jails, all on charges of possession of and trafficking in drugs. Hirsute amateur capitalists who are caught trying to turn hash into cash find that penalties are generally harsher abroad than...