Word: hemp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Principal crops: rice (more of which has to be imported to eke out the local supply), abaca (the famous Manila hemp), copra, sugar, corn, tobacco. The seasons: hot (March through June), rainy (July through October), cool (November through February). In the hot season, the government itself picks up & leaves Manila, settles down in the mountain city of Baguio (pop. 29,262), which is the official summer capital...
Marijuana is a variety of hemp and up to a few years ago, many mixtures of birdseed contained hemp seed, which was supposed to improve the singing of the canaries...
Some 20 years ago, at San Quentin prison, it became very popular for the inmates to have a canary in their cell, for which they purchased birdseed. It was finally discovered that the interest in the canary was solely to have an opportunity to obtain hemp seed, which would then be planted in some obscure spot in the prison yard, or mixed directly with smoking tobacco...
Valdo Magnani's closest friend was his fellow deputy from Bologna, Aldo Cucchi, in private life a surgeon who also specialized in studies of hemp workers' diseases. Cucchi had led an Italian partisan unit against the Nazis and Fascists, won his country's highest gold medal for bravery. In the Chamber of Deputies, he acted as a bodyguard for Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti...
...medical certificate was a likeness of the balding, bearded Dr. Warren. At either side was a grotesque dangling skeleton. At the bottom was a drawing of a surgeon, performing some sort of abdominal dissection upon a corpse with instruments faintly similar to oyster knives. The slashed end of a hemp rope dangled from the edge of the table. The other end of the rope was still fastened in a noose about the corpse's neck...