Word: hemp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high." The Seattle band Supersuckers has a song called Tasty Greens, which does not refer to spinach. The title of a new album by gangsta rapper Dr. Dre, The Chronic, is the name of a particularly potent strain of marijuana. More obliquely, the hard-rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout might carve on his desk during detention: "How carefully I've shaped you in the solitude of days./ How peaceful is my mind entwined in cord around my fingers...
Other individuals stood around the seated group, discussing the role of the military-industrial complex in the Persian Gulf War, the practical uses of "hemp" (i.e. marijuana) and the efforts to stop the development of a Canadian hydroelectric power plant...
...budget is an invaluable skill. Henderson puts an environmental spin on his aesthetic sense, and while he is a leader, he is not alone in this. Ever the magpie, fashion has caught on to ecology. "Le look vegetal" is popular in Paris, where earth colors and materials like fake hemp and mock plant stems are making news. In Henderson's case, the affinity to natural colors probably predates environmental zeal. "I like fruit tones, wood, stones," he says. "I keep beautiful rocks around, and I dry flowers to see which shades will emerge...