Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drug-free student at New Trier High. I acknowledge the use of marijuana by New Trier students but not in the numbers stated in your article, which said three-fifths of the student body "smoke pot." New Trier's student drug problem is in no way as great as you portrayed it. SHAWN SOCOLOFF Glencoe, Illinois...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: California and Arizona voters may have decided that illegal substances can be prescribed in some cases for medical purposes, but federal drug-fighting agencies are not so sure. Little more than a month after the two states passed propositions allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana and other drugs for certain patients, federal officials have announced that they may penalize physicians who choose to exercise this new freedom. Under federal law, it is illegal for a doctor to prescribe Schedule I substances, which include drugs like marijuana and heroin. Federal officials indicated Monday that a plan outlining their response...
...Emily and her husband, a doctor, are left in a parental limbo familiar to her peers: she is on to her kids about smoking marijuana, but she knows that won't be enough to stop them. Next time she catches them, she swears, "I'll lock them in every afternoon"--but she looks doubtful even as she says it. Ultimately, she hopes, the striving for success they've grown up with will check the urge to rebel. "I want to be like Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye and stop these kids from going off the cliff...
...that her 14-year-old daughter was smoking pot too. "That really shocked me," says Emily. "I didn't try it until I was 20, and she's all of 14--that's a big difference. What I worry about is the acceleration of gratification: if she's doing marijuana now, what'll she do as a senior...
Before she caught her kids, Emily attended several meetings of Parent Alliance for Drug and Alcohol Awareness, which is linked to the New Trier school district. "I remember thinking these parents seemed so radical about marijuana," she says. Now she wonders whether random searches of lockers and mandatory drug testing ought to be introduced at school, two options Superintendent Bangser regards as unnecessary. But while she still considers the tone of PADAA too apocalyptic, she finds other parents too lackadaisical. "There's a definite head-in-the-sand attitude here," she says. "People figure our kids' SAT scores...