Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight months ago, Burt's parents stumbled on four "bricks" (each a compressed kilo) of marijuana hidden in his bedroom closet. "What the hell is this?" demanded Burt's father. "Stuff, of course," answered Burt, nonchalantly adding that he had been taking pot ever since he arrived in California...
...Presbyterian Church in Palos Verdes, observes: "These guys seem to be real straight arrows. They're intelligent, good-looking. Good at sports, popular around school. They have all the characteristics of the old-style campus hero. But they also take and perhaps push drugs: marijuana, pills of all sorts." For these youngsters, adds Knight, marijuana is not so much an instrument of defiance or a means of escape as it is "an integral part of a complicated, energetic life," which is in many ways an all-too-attractive model for the younger kids...
Though the National Institute of Mental Health's most recent (1967) study reported that only 10% of the nation's high school students had smoked marijuana, observers closer to the scene in many communities put the figure far higher. According to a Los Angeles Times survey of Palos Verdes last week, high schools there "now have a proportion of drug-experienced students which police estimate at 50% and counselors put at 75%. An estimated third of the total are habitual users." Even more astonishing, the Times found, drug use has penetrated down to the sixth grade and does...
...high school in Southern California have taken pot doesn't know what he's talking about," insists Caldwell Williams, guidance counselor at Los Angeles' University High. Cub scouts in San Francisco discuss the pros and cons of pot with savvy, and in nearby San Rafael a marijuana sale took place right in class before the eyes of the astonished sixth-grade teacher. Nor is the increase in pot use limited to California. When the headmaster of a Colorado boarding school asked students who were using marijuana to admit it, one-third of the school trooped through...
Liberated to Care. Ministers and priests still generally disapprove of pot as a way of life. The Rev. Al Carmines, associate minister of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church, maintains that marijuana is no incentive to Christian values. "It doesn't particularly involve one with responsibility for one's fellow man," he says. "The liberation of the Gospel has to do with being liberated to care and not being liberated for ecstasy for its own sake...