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Whether the use of marihuana has a physical connection with the use of other drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and LSD is beyond present proof. Undoubtedly, those who are willing to experiment with marihuana have a disposition which would lead them in many cases to experiment with more dangerous drugs. Also the purchase of marihuana often brings one in contact with sellers of more dangerous products who either through ordinary commercial exploitation or through subtle blackmailing pressure, induce customers to acquire new types of dangerous drugs which they have not previously had. Some of these more dangerous drugs are addictive...
...Congress to provide stiff penalties: up to five years for any pot offense. Now the maximum is 40 years. No probation is allowed for second offenders and a minimum sentence of five years is mandatory. In most states, no difference was seen between pot and such other drugs as heroin and opium; all were usually lumped under the same general narcotic law with the result that in Georgia, to take the most extreme example, selling marijuana to minors can bring the death penalty...
...thing at all. You can talk about it at cocktail parties, tell your friends that you (or someone you know) has tried it, and you can condemn those anachronistic drug laws. The gut re-action most people used to have to pot users -- lumping them together with hard-line heroin addicts and calling the whole lot disgusting--is rapidly vanishing...
Compared with Stone's complex book, this slender first novel is barely more than a vignette, an Easter Sunday in a Pittsburgh slum. Eddie, a young Negro, returns from a year spent kicking the heroin habit in a Southern institution. Filled with tentative hope, he quickly finds that home has the same old tensions and temptations, that he is in the same old "black bag." In a foul tavern he encounters an alcoholic teacher on the verge of a breakdown. Though Eddie at first pegs him as a sentimental phony, their encounter grows from hostility to some understanding...
Author W. H. Auden complains that "it looks as if traditional morality is to be succeeded by fashionable morality" and predicts that "heroin and Sade will be in one year, cocoa and virginity the next." Matters may never come to that, but if they do, the British will certainly talk about the change candidly. The M.P.s debating the homosexuality and abortion bills at times became so detailed and clinical in their discussion that Lord Boothby, though a supporter of both bills, was moved to predict: "We shall not hear of sex in this house again for a very long time...