Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quentin Prison this week to serve a sentence of one to six years. Drummer Krupa had been sentenced on two counts. The first was a felony: employing a minor, one John Pateakos, to transport narcotics. The second and lesser count was a misdemeanor: possession of the drug marijuana, a violation which, if it could be universally detected, would land a great many jazz musicians behind prison bars. It is no secret that some of the finest flights of American syncopation, like some of the finest products of the symbolist poets, owe much of their expressiveness...
Swart, handsome, curly-haired Gene Krupa, drumming idol of swarms of jitterbugs, paled as a San Francisco jury found him guilty of using a minor (his 20-year-old valet) to transport marijuana cigarets. He had claimed that he was handed an envelope by a stranger, did not know what was in it. As his lawyer prepared to appeal, Krupa prepared to face the music, one to six years in San Quentin...
...somebody slip Mr. C. Bedall Monro, Pennsylvania-Central Airline president, a marijuana cigaret...
...weeks ago Monro publicly and bitterly denounced his industry for making fantastic promises of postwar service. He called such boasts a "vision of the marijuana type." But by last week P.C.A. itself held top honors in the race among smaller U.S. airlines for sensational prophecy. In full-page newspaper advertisements P.C.A. announced that it had filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board an application for a transatlantic air route to Europe, using gigantic floating seadromes (cost, $10 million each; inventor, Edward R. Armstrong), spaced at 800-mile intervals as sea-based refueling stations...
...Ursula's book Next Time We Live it was that simple. But the author's real-life current hero was also charged with helping run a reefer flat in Manhattan where marijuana cigarets were smoked by soldiers & sailors. This sort of thing might enchant the shade of Baudelaire, but it is vexing to narcotics squads...