Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sluggishness of mind is of course intended to be read as sensitivity and moral integrity. Billy's even decked out in a fringed suede jacket, boots, and cowboy hat. The beautiful Southwest landscapes of photographer Laszlo Kovacs turn hostile each night around the campfire, where a lot of authentic marijuana dialogue goes on. Like Western heroes, they are isolated in travel from their natural environment; the trail lies on the landscape, but is never one with it; they are always just passing through. It's a good metaphor for the expatriate sensibility that has grown up among young people...
Most of the former addicts were very critical of all drugs, including marijuana. "Any kid who says pot does not lead to other drugs is crazy," said one former addict...
...Orient seeking enlightenment. Countries like Cuba, Czechoslovakia and India, feeling unease about his four-letter talk and freewheeling ways, asked him to leave. Ginsberg learned enough to decide that strong drugs were not necessary for him. But with Talmudic thoroughness, he compiled a most impressive file and bibliography on marijuana, and has since arduously campaigned for its legalization. As a pacifist, he has crusaded for an immediate end to the war in Viet Nam. As a lecturer and reader, he is in constant demand at progressive campuses across the nation, where he is apt to deliver a formal talk...
...film, the lawyer's part is only a mug shot of a wry, wistful boozer. But in his first major role, Jack Nicholson proves that he knows far more about acting than either of his costars. His elegies for a vanished life are melancholy without being bathetic; his marijuana-flavored description of a UFO takeover of the U.S. is a perfect comedy within a flawed tragedy...
...military service. His vanilla screen-acting style was best expressed in such films as Tammy and the Doctor. Offscreen, Fonda began a new vocation-as an alcoholic who ended at least one motorcycle ride in a Hollywood hospital. When he was discharged, he gave up vodka and took up marijuana. "That changed my whole mind," recalls Fonda. "My conscience began to show. I was no longer competitive. I grew my hair and sometimes a beard." Getting busted for possessing pot simply confirmed his new convictions. "I began to get less offers from Hollywood. I developed the reputation of being...