Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank Takes Gun still has some vociferous opposition to contend with. Says State Senator Vincent M. Vesley of New Mexico's Grant County: "We are leaving the door open to some religious groups coming in here and possibly saying that marijuana should be used as part of its religious practice." New Mexico's Temperance League plans to organize a campaign urging the Governor to veto the pro-peyote bill. "We don't think it's a good thing for the state," said the league's executive secretary, the Rev. Durward R. Trolinger last week. "Peyote...
...hearing room came San Antonio's Roy J. Gilbert to tell how the Teamsters had tried to organize his 135-vehicle Southwestern Motor Transport, Inc. in 1955. When he balked at the Teamsters' demands, Gilbert said, they stoned and tossed homemade fire bombs at his trucks, planted marijuana in the cars of Southwestern employees, made threatening telephone calls. They also considered shooting Gilbert from ambush and wrecking his home with hand grenades given them by a friendly Army supply sergeant at Fort Sill, Okla...
...holds a job with a government welfare bureau. Montgomery pries Johnny loose from the hardhanded white law, while Johnny returns the favor by showing his pal safe trails through the Spade jungle. The pair meet such notable Spades as Peter Pay Paul, who pushes an asthma cure as marijuana; Billy Whispers, a pimp of stature; and Ronson Lighter, whose kleptomania focuses on only one Jumble artifact...
PEPITO, 14, valued in his gang for "heart" (courage), lives with his grandmother, who is on relief. He is on probation for shoplifting, smokes marijuana cigarettes. His world, beyond his gang's turf: comic books, gunplay movies...
...made a point of being seen riding in Cadillacs from expensive apartments in the best parts of town, they were forever afraid that the world was ready to laugh at them. To dull their anxiety they sought relief in drink (though none was technically an alcoholic); 15 used marijuana, and six took to heroin. Said one: "Being a call girl helped me overcome my inferiority complex. I used to feel very unattractive to men, but since so many of them want to pay me ... I guess I can't be all that unattractive." Largely because of their uncertainty about...