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...without its permanence." After the high ends, there is the frantic scramble for a new supply in order to shoot up once again, to escape one more time into compulsive oblivion. As the junkie develops tolerance for the drug, he must use ever increasing amounts to reach the same high???thus the price of a habit can run as high as $100 a day. If he shoots too little, he does not get the kick he wants; if he shoots too much, he risks coma and death from an overdose. An overdose depresses the brain's control of breathing, slowing...
...that those who had never smoked marijuana before got no reaction in their first session on pot. This tallies with the experience of many unscientific potheads; they achieved no "high" the first time. The only exception to this was a man who had expressed a desire to get high???and did so quickly. He became euphoric and laughed continuously. Yet one subject who had said that he did not intend to get high never did, even in successive sessions that included heavy doses of marijuana...
...Dream? The streets were full of happy drunks, but even those who had not touched a drop seemed high???gripped by a crisis-born spirit of camaraderie and exhilaration. In Brooklyn, a meat market donated a whole pig to a neighboring convent, thus providing everybody for blocks around with a snack of roast pork. Manhattan's Four Seasons Restaurant, where prices are rarely mentioned because so few would believe them, dispensed soup free of charge; at "21," where the only drink on the house is water, they passed out steak sandwiches and free libations without limit...
...Public Debt of the U. S. last week stood at its all-time high???$27,160,804,446. Simultaneously nine issues of Federal bonds were selling at their all-time high. Treasury 4%'s, due 1944-54, could not be bought for less than 109 while Treasury 3½%'s due 1940-43, were quoted above 105. Liberty bonds at 3½% were more valuable than they had ever been since they were issued in 1917. No one who wanted to invest in a direct obligation of the U. S. Treasury could buy it cheap enough...
...courts open. Similarly it was timed last week in Manhattan. Many a non-Catholic barrister sat with the kneeling Catholic Lawyers' Guild,* heard words of good counsel from Jesuit Paul L. Blakeley, listened to Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Said Cardinal Hayes: "In Catholic countries the great Crucifix is suspended high???it is impressive. It speaks?every wound in the body of Christ speaks, appeals to judge and to advocate, and also pours out mercy upon the guilty. And while we cannot have that symbol in our courts in our own beloved land, at the same time every Catholic lawyer ought...