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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...
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...
Klein came to mind more recently when Bob Dole denounced Trainspotting as one of the most contemptible movies, made by people who have no known connection to the Republican Party. The heroin addicts Trainspotting deals with look almost as depraved as the models in a 12-page ad Calvin Klein ran in the September issue of Vanity Fair...
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...