Word: marijuana
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...University intending to be a writer ("No kid goes to bed at night dreaming he'll be a ghostwriter"). After earning an M.A. in contemporary Jewish studies at Brandeis, he spent ten years editing scholarly magazines and writing a string of financially unsuccessful books (among them: High Culture, about marijuana use, The Great American Man Shortage and a compendium of Jewish humor). Just as he resigned himself to "finding a real job," an editor friend at Bantam suggested Lee Iacocca. "Great! My kind of guy," said Novak, who had never heard of Iacocca...
...total of 69 percent were opposed while 23 percent favored removing the legal prohibition against using marijuana. Sentiment was almost even on the question of a U.S. amendment against desecrating the American flag...
Gitell cites the work of two Kennedy school experts on drug policy, A.R. Kleiman and Mark Moore, but his article might have been more constructive if he'd showed some signs of familiarity with these men's work, which includes the recommendation that marijuana enforcement be reduced, not expanded. This contrasts sharply with the President's recent proposal that federal funds be withheld from universities which fail to implement "effective" anti-drug policies. By and large, of course, it's not crack that college students are smoking...
...season of discontent, is where Golenbock excels. There are a few flaws, however: he does dwell unnecessarily on Valvano's coaching deficiencies, which are numerous but hardly immoral; and he also inserts a three-page chapter devoted solely to relaying rumors that Bias' died from smoking a crack-laced marijuana cigarette, not from snorting cocaine. Interesting, but irrelevant and unsubstantiated...
...temptation. Thus I stand, a bit belatedly, to concede my guilt in contributing in a small way to the drug crisis. Maybe the '60s were a mistake, maybe I too frequently condoned the self-destructive behavior of others, maybe I was obtuse in not seeing a linkage between the marijuana of yesteryear and the crack of today. I hope that this admission, which does not come easily, will animate my behavior. But while I am willing to shoulder some of the blame on behalf of my generation, I trust that the other equally respectable co-conspirators in America...