Word: hashish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that he did not support the legalization of hashish, mescaline, LSD, or other, more powerful drugs...
...doctors said that because the patients all had used a variety of drugs-including meth, LSD, hashish, and heroin-it could not be specifically determined that speed caused the disease...
...Trailing the plane on radar, they watched it head toward Lebanon. The plane flew so low that it eluded Beirut radar, but Lebanese police started an immediate countrywide search. Within minutes, a police patrol found the Martin 202 parked alongside a large truck on a remote airstrip in the hashish-growing area of Baalbek, near the Syrian border. As police and truck guards fought a gun battle, the plane took off amid a hail of bullets...
...Mediterranean, the plane was forced to make a landing to refuel at Heraklion airport in Crete. There, police at once arrested the five men aboard, including the pilot, former U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel John Moore, 50, and Copilot Philip Amos, 30. Crete police also seized 13 bags of hashish worth about $4,000,000 on the American market...
Record Arrests. According to John T. Cusack, chief U.S. narcotics agent in Europe, it was the largest single haul ever made of U.S.-bound hashish. American agents had been closely on the trail of this particular drug ring for several months. In a second coup, U.S. agents two weeks ago helped to break up the largest smuggling operation on record. Acting on American-supplied information, French and Swiss agents arrested two of the ring's three members in Nice and Geneva. Since 1965 the smugglers had slipped an estimated $500 million a year in heroin into...