Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft card in to the Justice Department. At least 18 other suits that question the Selective Service System's power to use the draft as punishment for antiwar activities are currently pending in federal courts. Also under attack this year are capital-punishment laws, a federal.law requiring marijuana dealers to register with the Government and an Arkansas "monkey" law that forbids the teaching of evolution in the schools of that state...
...least one dog has achieved some notoriety in a specialty. Taddy, a 65-pound German shepherd bitch, has become expert at giving departing U.S. troopers-either home-or R & R-bound -a thorough sniff-over for hidden marijuana. She is so sharp that she recently nosed out two joints carefully tucked away in a man's camera that was inside his suitcase...
...Your article on teen-age drug use [Aug. 30] raises a question. If American youth so strongly urges "telling it like it is," why do more than 10% of the nation's high school students experiment with drugs like marijuana? Aren't they concerned with seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting it like...
...Father, the Bigot. Despite such evidence, the discovery that their own children are smoking marijuana still leaves most parents incredulous. "Pot is like syph," says a senior at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. "Parents can't conceive of it until it hits them in the face." When it does hit them, they scarcely know what to do. For, unlike sex and alcohol, drugs played no part in their own rites of passage. Wails one anguished Manhattan mother: "None of us knows anything about it. It's so new." One Detroit moth er turned her daughter...
Hoping to anticipate the problem, some parents try to scare their children with lurid stories about drug addiction and highly pertinent reminders that mere possession of marijuana constitutes a felony. But teen-agers tend to regard the supposedly inevitable progression from pot to heroin as myth, and they scorn the marijuana laws as hypocritical. At the other extreme are a few parents who introduce their children to pot in the home in the same way that countless parents start their children drinking. One San Francisco attorney turns on all three of his children, including his six-year-old. Still other...