Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge police arrested 40 per cent more suspects for drug offenses in 1970 than in 1969. Drug confiscations last year were more than ten times their 1969 rate for heroin and hashish. But these statistics have not resulted in any police action within the Harvard dormitories...
Although Kashnor and some street people said that heroin use has remained low, and that police have not cracked down on drugs, Cambridge police statistics for 1970 tell a different story...
...wrong people, the wrong drugs have taken over. English majors (ugh), fraternity boys and the down-and-outers who would have been bums anywhere are joining the culture. The aggressive psychotic drunk has sprung up now in the drug culture. Heroin and speed have replaced marijuana and LSD. Hippie violence against hippie has become commonplace. It is numbers: too many hippies. We can only afford so many people alienated from society...
...became expensive and hard to get. When rumors linked LSD with chromosomal damage, the counterculture also turned away from that No. 1 mind tripper. In 1969, the culture switched in large numbers to Methedrine or speed, a drug that led many to chaotic, aggressive behavior. Then last year the heroin pushers moved in, and the damage was complete. The drug deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin were symbolic; across the country, thousands were dying of overdoses, needle infections and drug-related accidents. Terrorized by the influx of debilitating drugs, diluted by Woolworth hippies, the movement limped through the past...
Fourteen out of the fifteen New Haven employees voted to form a union several weeks ago because "management just couldn't be talked to" about theft and heroin traffic in the New Haven restaurant, Cooper said. The management locked up the building after a strike by all non-management employees and a boycott by the surrounding community...