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Word: marijuana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bench has studied the sordid side of narcotics law enforcement and its failures for ten years. For addicts he urges medical treatment, both physical and psychiatric, as well as help in rehabilitating themselves, and long-term doctors' care. Only thus, he argues, can the illicit traffic in marijuana and narcotics, estimated at $400 million a year in underworld profits, be wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prescription from the Bench | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Weediest Case. In San Fernando, Calif., Gary L. Seybert explained to police investigating the marijuana growing in his garden: "A guy gave me the seeds and told me they would attract all the rabbits I can shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...creeps, my dear," says one of the creeps, "they are contacts with the heartbeats of a nation in decay." Among the heartbeatniks: Bummy Car-well (Larry Hagman), incipient novelist ("I'm a writer-I'm out there on the periphery handling unexploited materials"); Danny (Thomas Aldredge), a marijuana-fueled poet who mumbles about the "crypto-neo-reactionaries"; and Yogi (Del Close), a stubble-bearded anti-homosexual crusader who gets most of the show's laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...prose, grookish goofiness and all, Kerouac's book is a pleasant boyhood novel. Doctor Sax, which was written in 1952, comes from the apparently bottomless hopper that the author had filled before his bestselling On the Road was published. Perhaps because it contains no such adult concerns as marijuana, Zen Buddhism or women to dull his exuberance, it is Kerouac's best book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grooking in Lowell | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Green Thumb. In Detroit, police found longtime Drug Addict J. Papp standing on the grass in the center strip of the Willow Run Expressway holding a shovel, some fertilizer, and a cigarette package full of marijuana seeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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