Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue during the past year which involved the psychiatric services, as well as the medical section of the Health Services, was the running controversy over drugs and their use at Harvard. While estimates of the percentage of Harvard students who take drugs--and specifically who smoke marijuana--ran as high as 50 per cent and as low as one or two in the newspapers, most members of the Administration belittled the extent of the problem...
...Maybe abroad? "Rubbing your backside with a colored scarf and squirting wine out of goatskins?" Hopefully he hops off to Spain, moves into a dingy pensión, sits around in cafés with the local American beatniks, even goes off to Morocco for awhile to see if marijuana is the answer. And slowly he discovers what all sensible people know: that all the world over, hips are duller than squares. In the end he returns to the suburbs, his wife returns to him, and they both settle down resignedly to cultivate a sense of irony...
...ferryboat outing to Victoria, B.C., a Negro student watched a number of black-backed gulls mingling overhead with grey and white herring gulls and chuckled: "We're being intellectually stimulated watching the integrated seagulls." Another boy, appalled by a teacher's professed ignorance about "pot" (marijuana), observed: "You'd sure be disadvantaged in my neighborhood." Trying to "Rate." Many teachers find that kind of saucy intelligence more promising than the studied sophistication they often get in their regular classes. "They respond in a rare and open way," says Yale's Morris Kaplan. "They're still...
...fire-breathing Catholic C.O., and made my manic statement, telling off the state and president, and then sat waiting sentence in the bull pen beside a Negro boy with curlicues of marijuana in his hair...
...letter allegedly containing marijuana sent by Miss Ryerson to a former Cambridge resident, Miss Andres, Clarke, at her home in Ashville, N.C., touched off the investigation. However, postal authorities have brought no charges against either Miss Ryerson or de Lissovoy...