Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal taboos against marijuana continue to crumble. Last week California state legislators voted to do away with formal booking procedures, jail penalties and permanent criminal records in cases of pot possession. Though possession remains a criminal misdemeanor, offenders will suffer none of the stigmas of a criminal arrest. The week before, the lawmakers of both Maine and Colorado had drastically decreased the penalty for possession of small amounts of the weed by setting modest civil fines as the sole punishment. Oregon and Alaska (TIME, June 9) had already decriminalized the private use of pot. In all five states, however...
Bartender's courage often came from marijuana, cocaine, acid, "whites" (amphetamines) and "reds" (Seconal). They are still easy to get and so are guns. "You can get any kind of a 'roscoe'-twelve-gauge shotguns, four-ten shotguns, 9-mm. pistols, 38s, .357-cal. Magnums. I remember one person outside the gang even had a flamethrower...
Whether or not a person should have the right to use marijuana if he wishes has been hotly debated, of course, across American dinner tables for years. States and municipalities have wrestled with the issue and are increasingly liberalizing laws against personal use. In Oregon, for example, someone caught taking the drug gets off with a fine of $100 at most. Last week Alaska went a good deal further by becoming the first state where the use of marijuana at home was legalized. However, the unanimous ruling by the state's supreme court also continued prohibitions against the sale...
...March 1973, what did two Harvard surgeons say marijuana smoking caused in males...
...noted Herodotus, who could seldom resist a piquant detail, "is thick and glossy, and whiter than almost all other hides.") To relax, they got uproariously drunk on thick wine from the Black Sea area, which they quaffed from the leather-bound skulls of their foes, or they would dump marijuana seeds on red-hot stones and breathe the smoke. Fortunately for archaeology, they buried their dead kings and nobles in barrows, surrounded by every sort of tool, artifact and status symbol they might need in the next life...