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...this got spun by family retainers into the playful high jinks of a raucous clan. But the escapades got seamier over time and the spinning harder: a joyride with Joe Kennedy II left a young woman paralyzed after an accident on Nantucket. Bobby Jr. was arrested for possession of heroin. David died in a Florida hotel of a cocaine, Demerol and Mellaril overdose. William Kennedy Smith was accused and acquitted of rape, after a night out with Uncle Ted, who can never erase Chappaquiddick...
...After all, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, 61, who preached before several hundred followers and a clutch of more conventional Christian protesters at an Orlando-area amphitheater last weekend, would seem to be a true original. By his own account a former heroin addict and thief, he still imbibes hard liquor ("Jesus drank wine because he didn't have Dewar's," he told ABC's Primetime in March), surrounds himself with beautiful women despite being married, wears a $11,000 Rolex and drives a BMW, and says that for members of his Miami-based Creciendo en Gracia (Growing in Grace...
...Garcia, 19, of Brooklyn also went off track at the end of middle school. A fire destroyed her family's apartment and left them homeless for four months. She landed in a large, impersonal high school, and quickly became disengaged. "I started getting into drugs--weed, drinking, cocaine and heroin." After two years of mostly cutting class, she had accumulated a grand total of one credit. When she tried to transfer to another school, "the dean pretty much laughed in my face," she says. At 16, she stopped going to school. "I didn't see myself having any kind...
...have a profound effect on the way we view the world. I grew up on my mother’s old Louisa May Alcott novels, resulting in a slanted worldview in which, for example, cousin marriage is permissible. (One choice Alcott novel features a plot that requires the heroine to choose which of her eight first cousins to marry.) Though I was informed by my concerned parents at age seven that such practices are, at least in our society, inappropriate, my attachment to Alcott remains. There comes a time when we are supposed to discard children’s books...
...medicinal purposes, and that patients can receive similar effects from synthetic drugs such as Marinol.“People who want to smoke pot use medicine as an excuse to smoke pot,” Pettigrew said. “I don’t know a heroin addict that didn’t start by smoking a joint. The DEA has never targeted the sick and dying. But as long as marijuana exists as a schedule one drug, we will enforce federal regulations and arrest anyone using or cultivating marijuana.”Grinspoon calls the federal government?...