Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Illegally obtained marijuana often contains a common fungus which can cause lung infections and allergic reactions, a researcher at the Milwaukee County General Hospital said in a report published last week...
...Steven L. Kagan said that in recent tests he had found Aspergillus fumigatus in 11 out of 12 marijuana cigarettes and evidence of the fungus in the blood of 11 out of 21 marijuana smokers...
...Cline was questioned again and given a lie-detector test. Said Police Lieut. John Connor: "He failed miserably." Finally, Cline signed a statement admitting to a far more sordid story: he had been engaged in a homosexual act on a sofa in the eighth-floor elevator lobby when his marijuana cigarette accidentally ignited window draperies. He knew his partner only...
High technology doesn't play favorities. It helps the NASA engineer, the modern architect, the computer programmer and now marijuana dealers. Using the sophisticated techniques of hydroponics, potgrowers are causing new troubles for the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), whose agents are unable to find the indoor-grown pot rapidly becoming a lucrative business...
...marijuana farmers. Over 1000 tons of sensemilla were domestically produced last year, at least 10 per cent of which was produced indoors. With the risk of an outdoor field being spotted by authorities, many growers have moved into abandoned warehouses with low rents. In the biggest raid yet in 1981, DEA agents found $200,000 worth of hydroponic pot in a warehouse just outside of San Fransisco two weeks ago. To their dismay, the crop was not only growing faster than normal, but it contained, according to the DEA, "at least twice as much THC tetrahy-drocannibol--pot's active...