Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ecotopians are not like you and me. They favor fanciful hats and eccentric leggings, all made from natural materials. They work only 20 hours a week, smoke marijuana legally, like to give one another back rubs and reject conspicuous consumption. What they really care about is their land, their air, their water and one another, all of which they regard with an almost obsessive passion...
...Border Patrol officers Leo Laurel and Juan Trevino sit in the blacked-out cab of their Chevrolet Suburban. "They choose their sheriffs and deputies by the pound around here," jokes Trevino when asked why the police do not make more drug busts in one of the most important marijuana and cocaine importation routes in the country. "If an officer doesn't grab his man in the first couple of steps, he is away free...
...hours later when a gang of smugglers has been tracked to a mesquite thicket. Suddenly shots ring out and bullets buzz overhead. There is shouting in English and Spanish. One armed suspect has been shot in the arm and another captured unhurt along with a dozen bags of marijuana, worth about $250,000 in south Texas (and about twice that in New York). Judging by the haul recovered from the brush, eight or nine other "mules" made it back to the river. It is the third such bust in as many days. As an ambulance takes the wounded man away...
Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz last night said the United States should legalize heroin and marijuana, and possibly cocaine--while Secretary of Transportation James H. Burnley said existing laws are already...
...second step would be to legalize marijuana and heroin. He said cocaine and crack are so dangerous that a government should only consider legalizing them after carefully observing the effects of making other drugs legal...