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Among fad-following drug users, the initials of the day are THC. They stand for tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical compound that is the active ingredient in marijuana, hashish and all other psychedelic drugs derived from Indian hemp. In other words, THC is the kicker in the high...
...with a surfeit of standard comic woes: asthma, a meaningless job, a possessive fiancée, a Jewish mother. One sunny day a psychedelicate girl (Leigh Taylor-Young) bakes him a bunch of groovy brownies from an Alice B. Toklas Cook Book recipe that specifies a few pinches of hashish. Harold promptly blows his mind and his job, puts on a hippie face and runs off with the girl. But as his hair grows down to his shoulders his troubles run up to his ears. Mama kvetches on the phone, 40 hippies move into his pad, taking over...
...handed me a printed list of drugs, kept in a desk drawer in Avatar's Rutland St. office in Roxbury. The drug list, ranging from "caapi, extract of banisteria caapi or seeds of wild rue," to sominex, had only LSD, marijuana, hashish, mescaline, and psilocybin marked as useful...
...there's no money to be made in innocence. The three runaways in Dreifuss's film aren't frustrated youths seeking knowledge and fulfillment, but jaded refugees from the hang-ups of social-realist films of the fifties, desperate to jump into the problems of the sixties. Similarly, the hashish-fudge that liberates Harold Fine (Peter Sellers) in Alice B. Toklas simply moves him in ten years away from a dated life-style toward the new and more-fashionable hangups of today...
...Hashish, a form of marijuana with an extremely high concentration of the hemp plant resin that gives a stick its kick, is more dangerous than the garden variety of "grass" generally available in the U.S. Pro-marijuana advocates admit this, but argue that legally available marijuana would lessen the appeal of hashish. The A.M.A.-N.R.C. report predicts that any relaxation of antimarijuana laws would encourage an even heavier illegal traffic in hashish, than that at present...