Word: hemp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind, the young strip and ululate and make love to the accompaniment of manic cacophonies. Even in the Joneses' own backyard, thrusting up between the roses and the hollyhocks, a sharp eye may spot a weed growing?the telltale spikes of Cannabis saliva. Otherwise known as Indian hemp, a hardy botanic cousin to the fig, the hop and the nettle, it provides the marijuana that is troubling and changing a culture...
...technically illegal in Mexico, the Mexican government has been reluctant to beef up its unsophisticated mini-force of 40 drug agents, who are so poorly paid that they are easy prey to the Mexican ethos of mordida (the bite, or payoff). Operation Intercept may discourage the amateurs who smuggle hemp across the border on major highways. It will probably have little effect on the professionals who dominate the trade. As a knowledgeable Texas border scout points out, "There are areas out there where a small army could cross without detection...
...monotony of sameness, there was always the fear of detection. With his father now dead, Cortés realized that each pack of cigarettes, each shirt his wife bought could give them away. Juliana became a peddler and would go down to Málaga to sell Mijas' hemp products and to buy miscellaneous goods and clothes for resale in Mijas, so that an extra shirt or trousers caused no comment. In fact, when local searches for Cortés failed, the police believed that he was hiding out in Málaga and that Juliana's journeys...
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...
...vote, employers in urban centers - from store owners to white housewives - staggered working hours. Queues formed outside polling stations in the capital of Lusaka at daylight as people hurried to town. In rural areas, men and women went to the polling stations - in some in stances only coarse hemp wrapped around a square of gumpoles - through the jungle and bush and across plains flooded by heavy rains. They arrived by donkey, on bicycles, in wooden-wheeled oxcarts and World War I jalopies, or came clutching the sides of slim leaky boats hewn from tree trunks...