Word: marijuana
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Today is “4/20,” a day celebrated by marijuana smokers across the country—and here at Harvard, Lester Grinspoon is continuing his crusade for the legalization of cannabis in the U.S.Grinspoon, an associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), has advocated for legalization ever since the early 1970s when, he said, the drug helped his son overcome the painful side effects of chemotherapy.Inspired by his son’s struggle, Grinspoon wrote several controversial books including “Marijuana Reconsidered,” in which he presented a case...
...Alamos at age 18, right out of high school. Accounts seen by TIME of the investigation that followed her arrest reveal that even before taking the job, she "self-reported acts of drug and alcohol abuse" in high school. By her own admission, she was using drugs (marijuana) and drinking while underage even during the period of her security screening. But after promising to stop taking drugs (although not alcohol), and signing a written pledge to submit to drug testing, she received a clearance to handle some of America's most sensitive secrets. Despite the pledge, follow-up drug tests...
...your normal mainstream candidate,” Helgen says. “He can say what he thinks.” Kucinich, who called for the abolition of war as an instrument of foreign policy, the repealing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the legalization of marijuana, and other radical political reforms, certainly was not afraid to speak his mind. “David Baum, the theoretical physicist, talks about the ‘implicate order,’ things that are unseen but have some existence,” said Kucinich in his opening remarks...
...recounts. Darling provides a laundry list of the sundry men she’s tumbled into bed with during the temporal black hole since that bedtime chat freshman year: “a progressive-rock disk jockey in Richmond, Virginia; the faux scion of a Polish count; a marijuana-runner on the North Carolina coast.” Enter debonair White House correspondent Lee A. Lescaze. They meet for drinks. He compares her to a character in a Ford Maddox Ford novel and she’s pretty much smitten. Darling narrates an eerie scene of gazing from her apartment...
...gets. He should know: he was born in 1967, the year of the Six Day War, to two Holocaust survivors. His sister is an ultra-orthodox former settler, whose beliefs forbid her to read his work. His brother is the founder of Israel's movement for the legalization of marijuana and a member of the super-left-wing Anarchists Against the World...