Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Student attitudes on drug usage range widely from enthusiasm to grudging acceptance to resolute disapproval. Though the Harvard community tolerates marijuana to the point where some students have smoked it in lecture halls, both pot and harder drugs are stigmatized in many circles here...
Drinking is openly and brashly accepted at Harvard, while pot and other drugs linger as whispers. One senior named Paul who admitted to using mescaline and acid monthly and who classified himself as a daily marijuana smoker said hotly, "This place is so hypocritical. They accept one of the most powerful drugs (alcohol) in plain open view but if I smoke a joint outside in the courtyard someone always glares at me. It's so hypocritical...
...have made these bums folk heroes." Adds Ralph Salerno, formerly the New York City police department's leading Mafia expert: "America has come over to them. We've accepted the Godfather syndrome." In addition, dramatic changes in American moral attitudes ?the new sexual permissiveness, relaxed concern over marijuana and cocaine, and the drive to legalize gambling ?create an ever-increasing appetite for organized crime's services. On almost any given day, newspaper headlines attest graphically to the size and variety of that appetite. Last week, for example, two organized crime figures and seven associates were indicted in Detroit...
Offhand Humor. The plot is as authentic and insubstantial as a whiff of marijuana (Screenwriter Barren is an alumnus of the Boston Phoenix and the Real Paper). One of the reporters cashes in on his underground experiences by selling a book. A beginner tries to expose a local record bootlegger. Lovers climb in and out of various beds. The new publisher takes over; one staffer is fired; another quits. The paper goes...
Smuggling has long been a basic industry in Starr County-cotton during the Civil War, liquor during Prohibition, and in the last few years, Mexican narcotics. Ten to 20 tons of marijuana flow into the county each week, along with unknown amounts of heroin and cocaine. Almost daily, Mexican grass is trucked to the Rio Grande, loaded into sacks and placed on rafts or carried across the shallow river to Texas, only 40 yards away. Estimated value of the drug traffic: up to $5 million a week...