Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after the trial Howe's first campaign manager was arrested for intent to sell marijuana. The police had postponed the arrest until after the trial to assure a fair trial for Howe, they said...
...Alert. Teachers lead the inmates, one by one, through specific textbook cases: "You are not married but are the mother of a child fathered by ..."; "You arrive at National Airport from New York, and a policeman finds a pound of marijuana by searching your suitcase ..." The courses wind up with mock trials, in which the convict-students prosecute and defend cases before actual judges from the D.C. bench. Says Garland Poynter, head of education at the District of Columbia Jail: "Once you learn the system, you learn to respect it. It decreases frustration." Thanks to street law's practical...
...campaign manager. Proclaiming his innocence, the Congressman took his case to a state court where he was convicted once again and handed a 30-day suspended sentence. There's more. Shortly after Howe's second trial last week, his new campaign manager was arrested. The charge? Selling marijuana to an undercover...
...drug culture's quest for the perfect legal high has created a bewildering range of alternatives to marijuana-beyond the reach of the law but sometimes of dubious effectiveness or safety. Psychopharmacologist Ronald K. Siegel, 33, of U.C.L.A.'s School of Medicine reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that at least 192 herbs are commercially available and used for smoking, either already prepared as cigarettes or sold loose for "roll your own" and pipe addicts. Many are come-ons containing nothing stronger than backyard greenery, but Siegel has found 44% to contain psychoactive substances that...
...park in downtown Manhattan. There was not a policeman in sight to give a care. The once notorious Paul Krassner, a founder of the Youth International Party, sadly watched a crowd of 250 of his Yippies getting stoned in Central Park as a demonstration for the legalization of marijuana. Cops looked on with detached amusement. "People don't care if you smoke," groused Krassner. "It's become irrelevant...