Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigators' conclusions were troublesome but familiar: the Federal Railroad Administration announced last week that five workers involved in an April 6 commuter-train crash in Mount Vernon, N.Y., had used morphine, marijuana or codeine before the accident...
...carrying even the tiniest amount of a controlled substance. And tiny means just that. Last week the U.S. Coast Guard seized the Ark Royal, a $2.5 million, 133-ft. yacht that was in international waters between Mexico and Cuba. The onboard stash: one-tenth of an ounce of marijuana. Because only the captain and crew were on board at the time of the raid, it was not even apparent that the grass had been used by the yacht's owner. Though about 20 boats have been seized since mid-April, this incident led to loud public groaning from civil libertarians...
...role models used to be people that made a lot of money," says Jeff Woodberry, 20, of Queens, N.Y. "They were driving nice cars and wearing gold chains. I could see that drug dealing was the quickest way of making money." Woodberry started selling marijuana and cocaine...
Right now, marijuana is a $5 billion cash crop in the U.S., and the federal government doesn't see a penny of it. Instead, the government spends billions of dollars trying to stop drug trafficking...
...Gore, the only candidate who has said that he has tried marijuana, enlisted the support of Mayor Ed Koch, New York City's highest-volume antidrug crusader. Gore's quest has come to resemble Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Wilderness Campaign, a murky and meandering series of ill-conceived firefights in search of a clear battlefield. Gore, Jackson and Dukakis emphasized a theme that is bound to play a role in the fall election: the willingness of Reagan and Bush to cozy up to the Noriega regime even after there was evidence that he was serving as a conduit...