Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fast, die young. In-a- gadda-da-vida, baby. But throughout the just-say-no '80s, rockers and rappers held their collective breath. When would it be safe to inhale? Now, with the '90s, many musicians feel that the cultural tide has shifted -- so they're going public about marijuana use and celebrating the weed in song lyrics. Once again, pop music is going...
...wish I had a joint to get me high." The Seattle band Supersuckers has a song called Tasty Greens, which does not refer to spinach. The title of a new album by gangsta rapper Dr. Dre, The Chronic, is the name of a particularly potent strain of marijuana. More obliquely, the hard-rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout might carve on his desk during detention: "How carefully I've shaped you in the solitude of days./ How peaceful is my mind entwined...
Harvard is also last in drug use; 69 percent of College respondents said they had never used marijuana Thirty-three percent of Harvard students endorsed legalization of pot. In addition to social issues, the poll touched on curricular topics and school satisfaction...
Blacks are also less likely to drink or to smoke marijuana. While 54 percent of whites said they drink weekly, only 27 percent of Blacks said the same. Also 72 percent of Blacks as opposed to 57 percent of whites said they had never smoked marijuana...
...play an important role on the aids medical team. AIDS, like cancer, often causes people to lose their appetite, which worsens their medical condition. So eating the right foods could be crucial. Some patients may be helped by taking Marinol, a synthetic form of the active ingredient in marijuana, which restores appetite...