Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along with charges of womanizing, marijuana use and an alleged undisclosed Vietnam War draft notice, Clinton has suffered perhaps equally damaging criticisms about his polished campaign skills. It is his uncanny public rapport, some say, that causes voters to doubt the substance behind the frontrunner...
Clinton's evasive answers about marijuana useand a 1969 draft notice--issues exploited by theNew York press last week--only contributed tovoter unease about what pundits call "thecharacter question...
Clinton has established a reputation as a"robo-candidate," weathering scrutiny of hismarital fidelity, draft record and financialethics--not to mention the marijuana he "didn'tinhale" while a student at Oxford...
...patients with certain chronic or terminal diseases, a marijuana cigarette can blunt the side effects of radical treatments. Advocates of alternative medicine claim, for example, that the drug helps cancer patients endure chemotherapy, comforts AIDS victims and eases eye pressure for those who suffer from glaucoma. Last week, however, the U.S. Public Health Service said it will no longer condone cannabis therapy because of the fear that the practice could harm people with weak immune systems. The Federal Government currently allows 13 people to use the drug legally, and had approved the treatment for 28 others. Under the ruling, those...
...surprise decision seems destined to further distance the ruling Christian Democrats, who seek stricter enforcement of antidrug laws, from the opposition Social Democrats, who appear inclined to support drug-legalization proposals that would make Germany more like the Netherlands, where 2,000 coffeehouses openly sell marijuana and hashish. Ruled Neskovic: "Intoxication, like eating, drinking and sex, is one of the fundamentals of mankind." The judge himself confessed to preferring seltzer water to cannabis...