Word: hashish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flowering tops of the female hemp plant--Cannabis sativa. Cannabis (accented on the first syllable, like "Canada") is a common roadside weed, bound to be growing on some vacant lot within a mile of your home. The quality of a Cannabis product depends upon its resin content; compared to hashish (the pure, dried resin) and ganja (flowering tops only of specially cultivated plants)--neither available in this part of the world--marihuana is a sort of cubscout variety of hemp. Yet even with its scant amount of resin, marihuana, when smoked or eaten, can provoke bizarre, highly variable symptoms...
...growing agreement within the medical community, at least, that marihuana does not directly cause criminal behavior, juvenile delinquency, sexual excitement, or addition. Therefore, while attempts to limit its use are appropriate, the hazards of its use should not be exaggerated." Interestingly enough, however, the most recent investigations (Hashish: Its Chemistry and Pharmacology--report of the Ciba Foundation study group) suggest that long-term use of Cannabis can cause psychological and physiological deterioration. This is the first piece of respectable evidence in support of any of the Narcotics Bureau's assertions...
...Beirut, police stand blithely by while taxis careen up one-way streets the wrong way, honking every time they pass a sign reading "Klaxon Interdit." Smuggling of everything from hashish to hand grenades proceeds under the benign eye of the customs inspector, and buying a judge's opinion is sometimes as easy as buying a crate of Lebanese apples. When mild, soft-spoken Charles Helou, 52, was elected President of Lebanon by its Parliament in 1964, everyone expected him merely to preside over this happy chaos, because, as one Beirut parliamentarian puts it, "Corruption is the Lebanese...
...though he shunned liquor and tobacco-Wallace sounded at times as if his visions were hashish-fed. "At a certain point," wrote Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in The Coming of the New Deal, "his mind seemed almost to break through a sonic barrier and transform itself so that hardheaded analysis passed imperceptibly into rhapsodic mysticism." A Presbyterian, he flirted with an exotic cult led by a White Russian charlatan, served as an acolyte in the Episcopal Church and bombarded Roosevelt with allegorically couched advice on foreign policy. And, despite his closeness to the land and his concern for those who live...
...fatuous. He was a skinflint who haggled over cab fares, a spendthrift who swaggered in custom suits. He was a political idiot who backed the Nazis and the Communists at the same time. Furtive and suspicious, he suffered psychotic episodes and occasionally flirted with suicide. He tried heroin and hashish. For years, he once confessed, he was a compulsive masturbator. He wrote love letters in baby talk, named his women like horses (Babu Mio, My Golden Girl), and guzzled bromide by the bottle. He was a fiercely vocal champion of artistic integrity who forced publishers to print the works...