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Only six years ago the British government and its top medical advisers were convinced that by treating narcotics addiction as an illness instead of as a crime, they had neatly confined the drug problem. Only 471 addicts were known, and only two of these were under 20 and on heroin. The practice of providing drugs cheaply, even to known addicts, through the National Health Service had eliminated most of the motive for smuggling dope or peddling it. The black market in pilfered prescription drugs was negligible. Britons could perhaps be pardoned for rather smugly contrasting this situation with that...
...marijuana at least once, and that 25% use it regularly once or twice a week. At Berkeley, marijuana has given way to acid, which costs $2.50 per trip v. $2 for a milder marijuana kick. In fact, though, the great majority of Now People shun the traditional opium derivatives-heroin and morphine-because they represent a passive withdrawal from experience. They want their "now" heightened and more meaningful...
...familiar thriller scenes (bang-bang on the Blue Train, hugger-mugger on the bad guy's yacht, hack-the-stripper in a nudie nightspot) and unpleasantly overripe chestnuts ("How'll we get there-take the midnight camel?"). By the time the heroes get the heroin the customers may find themselves in something of a narcoma. The very best that can be said about this picture is that it's junk, but hardly habit-forming...
...with the Butcher. The other world was evoked first by Claude Brown, 28, a forceful, outspoken Negro who at age five saw his father slit a man's throat, later spent time in reform school after peddling heroin in his Harlem neighborhood. Now a Rutgers University law student, Brown is the author of the bestselling Manchild in the Promised Land, an account of a Harlem peopled by pimps, prostitutes and dope pushers. In such an environment, he told the Senators, men are emasculated not only by unemployment but also by the related fact that "Mamma is having sexual relationships...
...companion case, dissenting Judge John Van Voorhis protested that the policeman involved was only "allegedly" frisking for a weapon when he discovered a supply of heroin in the defendant's pockets. "Without probable cause," said Van Voorhis, "the frisk discovered the heroin, then the heroin served as a basis for arrest, which, in turn, was claimed to justify the search which disclosed it." Judge Van Voorhis insisted that a frisk should be tightly limited to its only legitimate purpose: "To discover and seize dangerous weapons." If it becomes "a general search of the person" in patent violation...