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...possible that the increased popularity of marijuana is merely cyclical, part of the usual flux and reflux that have also seen harder drugs like cocaine and heroin rise in their allure for a time, and then decline when the consequences became more luridly obvious--only to rise again when a generational forgetfulness sets in and a drug's glamour could assert itself afresh. Indeed, today some experts are worried that an obsessive concern about marijuana may confuse overall perspectives. Says Mark Kleiman, a UCLA professor who specializes in national drug policy: "It's destructive to focus the country...
...after all that is said, the marijuana question remains--and is in some ways a more complicated dilemma than, say, heroin, because the problem is morally, culturally and politically subtler. The young indulging in pot these days are mostly the children of the baby boomers, who, once upon a time in the '60s, took to reefer as their recreational sacrament, their generation's almost universal drug of defiance. Now the boomers, who were raised on episodes of Ozzie and Harriet (and, if anything, identified with David and Ricky), find, to their astonishment, that they themselves have become Ozzie and Harriet...
...despite what politicians say, marijuana was not my gateway to heroin and a crack pipe. I have not used other drugs, and I don't plan to. Aside from the occasional roll through a stop sign, I am a law-abiding citizen. As I write these words, I have this sense of shame that makes me hope that my first-grade teacher and my best friend's parents don't read this issue of TIME. They still think I'm a good kid. Fortunately, my mother didn't know about my behavior until I had more or less turned...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Attorney General Janet Reno announced the U.S. made 34 arrests in five cities Friday to break up an international heroin smuggling ring. Operated mainly by Nigerian women, and encouraged by Nigeria's military government, the organization moved heroin from Southeast Asia through Central America and Mexico and into the United States. Working in cooperation with police in Thailand, France and Britain, federal prosecutors and agents took almost a year to build their case and make arrests. President Clinton had high praise for the operation, which he said was part of U.S. effort to cripple major international drug-trafficking...
After Dole criticized Trainspotting, it was pointed out that actually the movie shows some distinctly unromantic aspects of heroin addiction. Advertisements, on the other hand, are supposed to display people whose lives you'd like to emulate by buying the product. That is why those cigarette billboards show vibrant young people who have shiny white teeth and lungs that presumably bear no resemblance at all to a rusted-out tailpipe...