Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seniors are said by students to have brought back some marijuana with them at the beginning of the winter term. The two would smoke it in their dormitory room which was lit by colored lights and often filled with the smoke of incense. Most of the dormitory and the rest of the senior class were on to their secret up to the time when they were discovered. One senior said that "hundreds of people, even the flits" were joining them for a smoke. In February one of the two left his laundry bag on a staircase. His housemaster, finding...
...Andover there was quite a bit of smoking of marijuana but most of it was earlier this year. "We knew we had it," said Dean Richards, "but didn't know how much there was." He added that students had told him there was less of it in the spring...
Students who claimed to know said that almost all the marijuana on campus during the winter term came from one student who brought back 30 ounces of "California stuff." This was said to be sold in ounces and half ounces for $15-20 per ounce. This one person is reported to have stopped his business leaving very few people with any drugs...
...student said that he first tried marijuana because someone in his regular illegal cigarette smoking clique introduced it one week. Virtually all who would smoke cigarettes legally still do so anyway. And pipes are sometimes used to cover the smell of drugs. Incense has been banned by the administration because it can be used for that purpose. And there is a move afoot to get rid of pipes for the same reason...
...blacks don't smoke marijuana or take other drugs at Exeter. The commonly-held reason is that coming to prep school was a more unusual alternative than taking drugs. More importantly, they aren't within the social group that takes drugs...