Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marijuana's medical usefulness has mounted steadily, but federal laws continue to be based on the hysterical misinformation of the past. As was the case a year ago, patients cannot legally obtain prescriptions for medical uses of cannabis because federal laws classify the drug in the same group as heroin and other hard drugs...
...Cannabis is an anti-convulsant which may be useful in treating epileptic attacks. It may be able to replace more dangerous drugs, such as barbiturates, in the treatment of insomnia. The drug's analgesic, preanesthetic, and antidepressant qualities show promise for treating alcoholics and in mitigating the effects of heroin withdrawal. Marijuana may be useful for relieving hangovers, and experimentally, direct application of THC has even caused an 82 per cent reduction in tumors in mice...
...Smith points to an 85% recovery rate for youths with drug problems "once they find the Lord." Confirming the claim. Franklin Jones, a psychiatrist who heads the methadone program at nearby Brea Hospital says: "My own program is a failure. I came here because they're taking kids off heroin cold turkey. What's more, they stay...
...been nasty, brutish and sometimes short. Says Juan Antonio Antolin, 31, who became director of Santa Marta seven months ago: "This was a pesthole beyond belief. It was run by drug traffickers, not the guards." Antolin claims a Mexican drug peddler offered him $10,000 a week to allow heroin to be smuggled into Santa Marta; when he refused, an attempt was made to kill...
Last March, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) arrested Barnes. A federal grand jury had indicted him and five of his top "lieutenants" for conspiring to distribute 44 Ibs. of heroin (estimated wholesale price: $1 million) once a month, starting in November 1976, from Barnes' Harlem garage. New York cops, however, grumbled that the feds had rushed in too soon. Having painstakingly tailed and eavesdropped on Barnes for more than ten years, local narcs figured they were building a better case against...