Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amateurs in the underground trade. Says a Kansas police official: "Most growers around here have a lot of pride, know-how and a college degree in agriculture." Not many demonstrate excessive guilt about their lawbreaking. Says an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration: "People don't perceive growing marijuana as being really wrong, even though it's illegal...
...Administration pressured Mexico to spray its grass crop with paraquat, a potent weed killer. U.S. smokers, frightened of potential lung damage from tainted Mexican grass, turned to growing their own. That reliance on the domestic weed was further heightened when the DEA cracked down on the smuggling of Colombian marijuana into the U.S. Today, though many growers cultivate small quantities of pot strictly for their own or friends' use, 100,000 or so, according to NORML, the pro-pot lobby group, are commercial growers. They supply about 20% of the grass consumed annually by the nation...
...preferred crop today is sinsemilla (a seedless marijuana produced through intensive cultivation of only the female plant) that has a very high concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient. Sinsemilla produces a heady euphoria and sells for around $2,000 per lb. This is roughly the yield from a single plant. The sinsemilla produced by U.S. growers is so prized that seeds have been smuggled into Mexico and Colombia to enrich crops there...
Officials admit that they are managing to seize only 5% to 10% of the domestic crop at best. The DEA contends that enforcement could become more efficient if the newly discovered marijuana fields were to be sprayed with paraquat. The state of Florida, in apparent agreement, has announced that it will spray some fields with the herb killer. The Florida plan has prompted critical editorials in local newspapers as well as a lawsuit from NORML. In addition, the Chevron Chemical Co., a distributor of paraquat, has fired off a warning letter to the U.S. Department of Justice...
...Reese's chilling theme. Chargers Owner Gene Klein said he could not see how a man who rushed for 19 touchdowns, as Muncie did last season, could possibly be on anything. Shortly thereafter Muncie checked into a detoxification center, confessing "a small problem with alcohol, cocaine and marijuana...