Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the space program has not been immune to the drug plague. Dr. Howard Frankel, who was medical director of Rockwell's space shuttle division from 1981 until 1983, says that he treated employees who were hallucinating on the job, collapsing from cocaine overdoses and using marijuana, PCP, heroin and numerous other drugs while they worked. Frankel estimates that 20% to 25% of the Rockwell workers at the Palmdale, Calif., plant, the final assembly point for the four space shuttles, were high on the job from drugs, alcohol or both. During the construction of the spacecraft, police raided Rockwell...
...Marijuana was once the most common drug in the workplace, but cocaine may now have become No. 1. According to estimates by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the number of Americans who take marijuana at least occasionally declined between 1979 and 1982, the most recent years for which statistics are available, from 22 million to 20 million. During the same period, the ranks of cocaine users increased from 15 million to 22 million. The problem seems to be most prevalent among young adults. NIDA estimated last week that nearly two-thirds of the people now entering the work force...
...popular drug to use at work, partly because the intense high it generates often gives users the false feeling that they can do their jobs better and faster. Moreover, cocaine is easy to hide. It is generally snorted rather than smoked, and does not give off an odor as marijuana does. Users have devised ingenious ways of taking the drug right in front of their co-workers without being detected. Some, for example, buy squeeze-bottle medications for sinus congestion, empty out the medicine and refill the bottles with cocaine. Cocaine vaporizes at temperatures above 80 degrees , so merely carrying...
...many offices, drugs are as easy to obtain as paper clips from the stock room. Some dealers provide messenger services to deliver cocaine and marijuana right to their customers' desks. In other cases, users send unwitting company messengers on "business" errands to pick up packages that actually contain narcotics...
...Ford and other manufacturers with large blue-collar work forces have discovered that drug dealers offer virtually an alternative cafeteria service in their plants. Instead of meat loaf, macaroni and apple pie, the choices are marijuana, hashish, cocaine and amphetamines. For Cherry Electrical Products, a semiconductor and electrical-equipment manufacturer near Chicago, the seamy side of company life came to light in October 1984, when two employees were arrested late one evening for selling marijuana to an undercover policeman. President Peter Cherry then discovered that drugs were being peddled in the company's stock room. One woman employee with...