Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smoking marijuana-also called pot, tea, grass, stuff, boo, hemp and Mary Jane-seems to be this year's way among students of preserving the perennial illusion that the younger generation is going to hell. Statistics on the problem are nonexistent, and its extent is tough to gauge. School officials normally ignore it or hush it up; students with first-hand knowledge are prone to boastful exaggeration; arrests are relatively rare...
Boston police and New York State's Bureau of Narcotics Control are concerned: both held seminars on narcotics control for the benefit of college administrators. The New York bureau has collected evidence of marijuana use at 15 upstate New York campuses. Dr. Gerald L. Klerman of the Harvard Medical School staff estimates that 10% of the students at such large urban universities as Harvard, Stanford and California's Berkeley campus are "chronic users." As many as a third of the undergraduates at Yale and Columbia, according to an informed estimate, have at least tried the drug. And Cornell...
Turned On for Exams. Savvy students seem to have little trouble cultivating a "connection" to secure marijuana-most often in the form of a $5 "nickel box" (matchbox size)-in New York City, Harvard Square, California's Sausalito and elsewhere. Up to 40 "joints" (cigarettes) can be fashioned from a box, making marijuana cheaper per kick than alcohol...
...more relaxed in school tests if I'm high," explains a Redwood, Calif., high school senior. "I feel like I'm going real slow, but I'm going at my normal speed, and all pressure seems off." But the common way of using marijuana is the spur-of-the-moment party in a college student's apartment, a teen-ager's home when parents are away, or a car at a drive-in movie. "The whole car fills up with smoke, like a big tank full of it-it's wild," reports...
...most psychiatrists, the increase in marijuana smoking represents not so much a search for new thrills as the traditional, exhibitionistic rebellion of youngsters against adult authority. Parents who are quite agreeable to students' drinking almost always boggle at drugs. "There is not much that students can do that is defiant," says a Boston psychiatrist. "They think with some degree of glee about what their parents would think if they knew they were smoking marijuana." These students also are "looking for changes in personality," and "they lack communication and feel isolated-when they smoke there is a certain togetherness...