Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford talked with a level candor on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes. A strong advocate of equal rights for women, she repeated her beliefs about abortion-the Supreme Court's decision legalizing it, she said, was "a great, great decision." When Correspondent Morley Safer asked her about marijuana, Mrs. Ford said that she assumed her four children had sampled it and that she probably would have tried it herself when she was young: "It's the type of thing that the young people have to experience, like your first beer or your first cigarette...
...appeal lies elsewhere, in the New Mexico air, which I suppose people respond to for the same reasons people respond to all rambling songs, under-the-canopled-sky songs, exotic marijuana music. In a lazy Mexican town people just smoke up all day, and it sure is as different from the suburbs as any place on the continent...
Denouncing violence and drug use (even smoking marijuana) in the black community, the authors urge black youths to "actively enter gun-control and drug-control campaigns." Teens, they believe, are especially concerned with redefining blackness and with confronting the stereotyped notion that blackness in America is "poverty, broken homes, troubled communities; ability in athletics; singing, dancing, pimping and mugging; hating whites and not being too smart." This definition of blackness, say the authors, can lead to "absolute terror" and conflict in those black teens "who would like to have friendships with blacks or whites, who enjoy Beethoven as much...
...MARIJUANA: NEW STUDY. Most U.S. researchers insist that marijuana use poses serious health hazards and have linked the drug with chromosomal and immunological defects, lung damage and interference with speech and memory. But a team of anthropologists from the New York City-based Research Institute for the Study of Man, which spent two years studying marijuana users on the Caribbean island of Jamaica, concluded that although the drug causes inefficiency on the job, even among farm laborers, it does no apparent physical harm. The researchers noted that Jamaicans who smoke ganja, as the powerful, locally grown marijuana is called, take...
...course of week-long in-hospital examinations of 30 Jamaicans who routinely smoke an average of seven marijuana cigarettes a day, doctors found that they were more likely than nonsmokers to exhibit hypoxia, a decrease of oxygen carried by the blood to the organs and tissues. But their heart rates, liver and lung functioning, coordination and memory were not significantly different from that of nonusers. Critics of the new study feel it did not look long or closely enough to find the genetic and other defects previously shown to be associated with marijuana; they still believe the drug is harmful...