Word: marijuana
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...interception. The Government, says Lee Dogoloff, once drug adviser to President Jimmy Carter, "has been interdicting the same 10% since Harry Anslinger," who was appointed U.S. Narcotics Commissioner in 1930. Operation Alliance may increase the percentage, but the greatest optimists have no hope of ever intercepting even half the marijuana, heroin and cocaine slipping into...
...Harlem, angry residents paint large red X's on crack dealers' doors and put stuffed animals in the windows of abandoned buildings as a symbolic gesture to reclaim them from drug users. In New Mexico, two children turn in their parents to the police for marijuana possession, just as a California girl did her coke-using parents a week earlier. In Washington, the President of the U.S., the Vice President and most of the White House staff patriotically provide urine samples so that it can be seen if they have within the past few days consumed any heroin, cocaine, marijuana...
...Alcohol Abuse: "The trend since 1979 is that people are backing off. In almost all classes of drugs, abuse among younger people has diminished. When you get that kind of change in attitude on the part of youth, it's obvious that drug use is going to decline." Marijuana has been widely feared as the "gateway drug" that leads teenagers from smoking joints to experimenting with stronger stuff, such as cocaine and heroin. In 1978, according to government surveys, a staggering 10% of all high school seniors smoked marijuana every day. Today the percentage has dropped by half. That...
History offers ample evidence. Ritual opium use has been traced back to Greece and Cyprus as early as 2000 B.C. The ancient Aztecs took ololiuqui (similar to LSD), peyote, marijuana and other mind benders. In the Middle Ages, witches rubbed their bodies with hallucinogenic ointments...
...fortunes of early New World merchants were amassed by trading opium and rum (as well as slaves). George Washington, historians believe, probably used hemp (marijuana) to ease his dental pains. President Ulysses Grant took cocaine in his last years while writing his memoirs, on the advice of his publisher Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain...