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...bill is a congeries of compromises. It recognizes recent medical and scientific findings by differentiating between marijuana and more dangerous substances like heroin, LSD and amphetamines. It also acknowledges changing public opinion by distinguishing between drug use and sales. The possession or use of marijuana would be a misdemeanor, not a felony, and the minimum penalty for conviction would be reduced from the present two years' imprisonment...
...margarine. * Brody came on with a whacked-out messianism, a combination of Terry Southern's Guy Grand in The Magic Christian and Kurt Vonnegut's saintly, alcoholic millionaire in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Brody passed out $100 bills to children in Harlem, laid $500 on a heroin addict. "You want love? You'll get love," he proclaimed. "Money. Cars. If you want my death, you can have that...
...night in Tijuana was a lot dingier than we had expected, even though we had been there before. It is really a grim city. American cars without mufflers from the early 50's roar in zig-zag patterns down the gray, blotched sidewalks. Pre-teen hookers and wiry heroin-pushers alternate street corners. A lack of curiosity and daring kept us moving past them towards tourist shops...
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...past heroin ("horse") was an overwhelming favorite for stimulating horses to run faster, but heroin had unfortunate side effects and some horses became uncontrollably wild. Today's stimulants are much more sophisticated and harder to detect in the post- race spit and urinalysis, but the penalty for use of stimulants- being barred from racing forever- is so severe that the unscrupulous use other methods to help their horse across the wire first...