Word: marihuana
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...combination I loved--a brown linen dress and a white silk blouse with brown polka dots. Wednesday I wore a floral blouse with a melon red suit, Thursday a white blouse with a bright yellow linen suit I had purchased in London when I was working for the marihuana commission. On Friday, I wore a burgundy blouse with white polka dots, a white skirt, and a navy blue blazer...
Truism. In a marked softening of previous attitudes, the convention adopted a resolution, paralleling the recommendations of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, urging that felony penalties for the possession of "insignificant" quantities of pot be abandoned. In professional tones, the A.M.A. urged further scientific studies of cannabis...
...Grinspoon said, "the Commission's view that marihuana is a fad strikes me as more an expression of wishful thinking than empirical reality...
...Commission recommended that legal penalties which now forbid personal, private use of marihuana be dropped. It also urged that it remain illegal to smoke marijuana in public, grow it, or sell it for profit...
While the Commission described possible physical damage to heavy users, Grinspoon said it fails to support its claims with empirical data. He also warned that the report's recommendation of tightened border surveillance and a crackdown on domestic production of marihuana might lead people to harder drugs...