Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychedelic drug scandal has come one gone without shaking the faith of a small but dedicated segment of the community in plain old marijuana. Cambridge does not have a drug problem. It does, however, harbor a very small sub-culture that regards cannabis as little less than a necessity. These people are not addicts, because marijuana, or "pot" as it is better known by devotees and would-be hipsters ("weed," "grass" and less printable names are also used), does not cause addiction. Still, a few local residents would agree with the young man who declared passionately. "I love...
This group is closely related to the long haired denizens of "The Bick," but the two are not identical and should not be parleyed into the stock image of a "dope-addicted beatnik." Those who use marijuana include artists and writers, pseudo-artists and pseudo-writers, and frankly non-creative people. Both students and non-students belong. Outsiders can safely place many of these people in the romantic, if nebulous, image of "the Cambridge Underground...
...Narcotics Division of the Massachusetts State Police is reportedly ready to make at least one more arrest for possession of marijuana at Brandeis University today...
...doses, these drugs can simulate the effects of certain forms of psychosis-to the point, in some cases, of permanent derangement. But in controlled, minute doses the drugs produce weird and wonderful fantasies of sight and feeling; in Greenwich Village and on college campuses, they seem to be replacing marijuana as the hip way to get kicks. Some investigators who have tried the drugs claim to have undergone a profound spiritual experience, and these men are seriously, if gingerly, studying the undefined relationship between drug-induced visions and the classic forms of mystical ecstasy...
...Christian religion without becoming the Principal Person? Kops goes barefoot about London, later is seen carrying a big wooden crucifix he has carved himself. It seems like a hopeless case. Kops, as he says himself, "cannot cope with the human race." Inevitably the crackup comes. First it is "greengage" (marijuana), then "the loony-bin" at Belmont...