Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overexpectation. As with alcohol, it can be used in a variety of ways and to a variety of degrees. Like their fathers and mothers, who learned to hold their liquor in college, today's youngsters have to learn how, when, where and why to use how much marijuana. A common experience is to feel no effect whatsoever the first time marijuana is used. Quite contrary to the effects of alcohol's first use, this is probably a result of overexpectation, apprehension about the unknown, and the pervasive awareness of doing something illegal. This last aspect is one reason...
What the Mexicans christened marijuana (literally "Mary Jane") is a variable combination of female cannabis seed heads with leaves and chopped-up stalks. At best, say U.S. pharmacologists, the mixture is only about one-tenth as strong as hashish. Marijuana is illegally imported into the U.S., mainly from Mexico, either loose or in the form of pressed bricks, called "keys" (for kilos), weighing 2.2 lbs. Connoisseurs strain out the coarse stalks before rolling it into cigarettes or packing it loosely into long-stemmed, cooler-smoking pipes. For $5, anyone almost anywhere can buy enough through his office boy or teen...
Varied Effects. Once a marijuana smoker (or eater; marijuana can be mixed into such foods as salads and brownies) becomes accustomed to pot, the effect varies according to the individual. The same, of course, is true of alcohol. "The number of joints smoked depends on the mood and the group," says the Chicago housewife. "I remember one calm, musical evening when three of us went through 14 sticks. I remember another when 20 of us smoked only three." She can get high on two Scotches, and has on occasion drunk enough liquor to pass out. "But," she says, "the high...
Medically, alcohol is a depressant; so is marijuana. Therefore, it often depresses libido. But the offsetting release of inhibitions can make sex more acceptable and enjoyable-although marijuana is no aphrodisiac...
...Eventually," says the San Francisco architect, "my first marijuana high turned into a laughing jag that was infectious. Each of us roared at the other's antics. We put on some phonograph records and were captured utterly by the music. Eventually we grew affectionate and made love. I have since taken marijuana many times around attractive girls with whom I shared no emotional relationship, and there was no sexual attraction to speak...