Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their true value, boats 43% and aircraft 35%. (Drugs are burned.) Confiscated businesses have presented a particular problem. Consider the strange case of Rex Cauble, millionaire rancher, owner of the wildly successful Cutter Bill western-wear stores and kingpin of the "Texas Mafia," who smuggled tons of marijuana into the Lone Star State during the late 1970s. Cauble's corporate empire was so complex that agents felt he was the only person who could manage it efficiently. So while he was out on bail, the DEA paid Cauble $10,000 a year to run his business. They fired Cauble...
...police and occasional attacks by violent punks. "You walk the streets out of loneliness," says Salvation Army Sociologist Ronald Vander Kooi, "and you start talking to yourself." Joseph Hanshaw, 19, has kept his bearings so far. Last spring he was kicked out of a Job Corps camp for selling marijuana. "Stupid," he admits. "I blew it." He has spent most of 1983 sleeping where he could around Manhattan. A job has eluded him, but, he says, "I'm trying to prove that I can make it on my own." Indeed, he would rather bunk down in a concrete corner...
Three weeks after the Oct. 25 U.S. military invasion, life on the tiny island took on an Evelyn Waugh flavor. The week's only known military casualty was a paratrooper who hurt himself while body surfing. Marijuana sales resumed along Ganja Alley, a colorful corner of St. George's, and local businessmen had their first postinvasion Rotary Club luncheon. Even Gail Reed, the American-born wife of the Cuban ambassador, whose embassy had been ringed for days by U.S. troops, was able to joke before flying back to Havana: "I'm just sorry I left my Jane...
...very much alive: thin, hippie-looking, mustachioed, bedecked in bright, bizarre uniforms. Though their expressions seem subdued, their eyes glint with a new awareness tinged with a little of the old mischief. As for the grave in the foreground: it has THE BEATLES spelled out in flowers trimmed with marijuana plants...
...there were stabs of trouble. Back in 1970, when he was 16, Bobby was arrested in Hyannis Port for smoking marijuana and placed on 13 months' probation. In 1979 his younger brother David, then 24, was found dazed and bruised outside a sleazy Harlem hotel, packets of heroin scattered near by; David reportedly had gone there to make a buy. Bobby himself, says a family friend, has been dabbling heavily in both heroin and coke for at least the past three years. According to another pal, Bobby knew he had a problem and sometimes sought psychiatric help. Over...