Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court in harrowing detail a growing desire to kill herself, an urge compounded by Tarnower's infidelity and her own job pressures. Things were not going well at Madeira. Harris had disciplined a student for sorority hazing, and, more recently, expelled four others for evidence of marijuana use. Then she received a critical letter from the girl who had been the victim of the hazing. The school's trustees were beginning to question Harris' competence. Said she: "It put a box on my life. I couldn't function from then on." Dabbing the tears from...
...impounding two truckloads of evidence. Though it had the split-second timing of a narcotics bust, last week's daylight raid by New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams was trying to smash a ring of ghostwriters who sell term papers to college students. Instead of cocaine or marijuana, the evidence included papers with titles like "The Importance of Fate in Romeo and Juliet" and "Mycenaean and Minoan Architecture." The culprit: a term-paper mill named Collegiate Research Systems Inc. that sells roughly 500 ghostwritten essays in a good month from a 305-page catalogue, grossing about...
...been Florida's loss. Since the Cuban refugee crisis, two-thirds of the U.S. Coast Guard fleet has been redeployed to patrol the Florida coast. In addition, smuggling has become more risky in Florida, where antidrug enforcement efforts have been stepped up and tough new laws against marijuana smuggling include minimum mandatory sentences of up to 15 years in jail...
...stepped-up Louisiana connection is similar to operations in Florida and along the Atlantic Coast: a large "mother ship" from Colombia, the source of about three-quarters of the marijuana entering the U.S., unloads its cargo into smaller vessels, which ferry the pot inland. The many unmanned offshore oil and gas wells in the area serve as excellent rendezvous points. Local fishing boats and the supply boats that serve the oil and gas drilling rigs off the coast are usually used for the ferry operation because they attract no undue attention. Pinched by rising fuel prices and foreign competition...
...conveyor belts for fast unloading. Last month the crew of a Coast Guard patrol craft received permission to fire on a fleeing supply boat, only the second time since Prohibition that the Coast Guard has shot at a U.S.-registered vessel in peacetime. Seized were 70 tons of marijuana; 16 Colombians were arrested...