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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marijuana, which has long been considered by Americans to be something frightfully obscene and lower considered by Americans to be something frightfully obscene and lower class, is now not such a terrible 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...
...first drop in the rate since 1950. According to John G. Morrill, general manager of the Harvard Cooperative Society, the new lower rates were forced by increased expenses last year...
...general manager said Friday that this summer's annual audit of Coop expenses, received last week, determined what the new lower rates would be. He cited new and continuing construction costs, real estate taxes, and interest as causes...
...should be set up, from the elimination of the slot for the department's No. 2 man right down to a cutback of the city's much admired but outmoded mounted patrolmen. In another study, Boston's force was told to raise salaries, lower the compulsory retirement age and get civilians to do clerical work. Baltimore's cops were brusquely told that they did have an organized crime problem, no matter how loudly they insisted otherwise. The 1965 Baltimore report also outlined a whole new set of street-by-street beats and noted dryly that...
...Alcohol is absorbed rapidly into the bloodstream. Its most pronounced physiological effects are on the brain. When the blood contains .05% ethyl alcohol, the result is depression of the uppermost level of the brain, compulsiveness and a loss of inhibitions: .10% can affect the lower, motor area of the brain, impairing control of the body: .20% may cause an individual to need help walking; .30% can make him fall into a stupor...