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Word: marijuana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lurking among the flowers and vegetables in many a South African garden patch is an innocent-looking weed called dagga. Dried and smoked like marijuana, a close relative, it induces a dreamy recklessness that can spur men to acts of terrible savagery. Nearly one-fourth of the rapes, murders and maulings that occur in the slums of South Africa's great cities are blamed on dagga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Deathly Dagga | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...mates-girl. Author Halevy, a 35-year-old New Yorker, scores his first-novel romance with a bustling big-city sound track. Subway doors snap shut like guillotines, shreds of dirty newspapers swirl along the avenues instead of autumn leaves, a joyless Village party gets high on marijuana and low on clothes; and all the time the two lovers sleepwalk their poignant way between the steel-and-glass monuments and the human ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...damages. Marlon settled the suit by agreeing to make Désirée, later gloated openly about his success in "copping a medical plea." After that, a Fox executive remarked: "The only good thing I can say about this twerp is that he doesn't like marijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...Recipe: Over mixed chopped fruit and nuts, throw pulverizations of black peppercorns (1 tsp.), a whole nutmeg, 4 cinnamon sticks, coriander (1 tsp.) and a bunch of dried, powdered cannabis sativa (marijuana plant). Mix sugar (1 cup) with a big pat of butter. Then combine the entire mess into a cake and cut into fudge-sized pieces. "It should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...fellow died at the hospital, Archer had no intention of calling it quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled, the detective was poking into as sordid a mess as hardened mystery addicts could reasonably ask for. Macdonald's blend of sex and sadism includes marijuana, incest and adultery. That the mixture stops well this side of disgust is a tribute to his nice sense of realism, an adult way of conveying that life is sometimes like this, but no need to leer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reasonable Facsimile | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

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