Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...familiar name in the law courts popped into view once again: Danny Escobedo, 30, subject of a 1964 Supreme Court ruling on a defendant's right to counsel, was sentenced in Chicago to two concurrent 20-year terms for selling marijuana. It was the second narcotics conviction for Danny in three months: last February, he was sentenced to 22 years for selling heroin. And next week he faces a charge of robbery. Escobedo is appealing the February narcotics rap on the ground that tape recordings introduced into evidence constituted unconstitutional eavesdropping...
...promiscuity is not on the rise. What they take for granted is sex among couples who consider themselves "pinned," engaged, or just plain in love. Honest relationships now, they contend, will lead to better marriages later on. And while students are increasingly aware that LSD and Methedrine are dangerous, marijuana has become an accepted part of college culture. For many, it simply provides a more illuminating kind of high than alcohol does...
...course of their sometimes-fanatical crusade against marijuana, American lawmen have made the hippie-policemen a standard fixture in many college communities. And in New York last month, this new look in law enforcement moved into politics as hundreds of long haired, shabbily-dressed young policemen overran Columbia in the name of law and order...
...first signs of democratization in his country was that all the police were wearing uniforms again. Obviously, the use of undercover police in Czechslovakia has been far more oppressive and less restricted than in America. But when a young man is sent to Federal penitentiary for agreeing to sell marijuana to an insistent hippie-policeman, or when a pseudo-member of a Columbia radical group suddenly flashes his badge and arrests the group's leader, it seems clear that the American plainclothesman too, has his repressive uses...
...written another children's book--on another complicated subject, marijuana; and this is directed at junior high children. I think after this I'm going to stop for awhile, because these are such complicated subjects to write about for young people. They require more sweat from me than anything else I've done.S-