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...LEGALIZE POT posters provide the decor, while live flamenco dancers on a third-floor stage supply the entertainment. At either of two bars, customers--all of whom are at least nominally required to show they have come on doctor's orders--can choose from among 10 grades of marijuana leaf, along with capsules, tinctures and half a dozen varieties of pot-laced baked goods. A lavender haze of smoke fills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOO HIGH IN CALIFORNIA? | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

This turned-on scene may not be what Californians envisioned when they voted last November to enact Proposition 215, legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The beneficiaries were supposed to be AIDS sufferers, people in chronic pain, cancer patients going through chemotherapy and others in medical need. But the law does not specify the medical conditions for which pot is permissible, and it requires only a doctor's oral or written permission, not a formal prescription, to get the drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOO HIGH IN CALIFORNIA? | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

What led to Louis' and Gerard's change of heart? Mounting pressure. Last month federal agents raided Gerard's home and seized weapons and small amounts of cocaine and marijuana. If charged, he faces 10 years in prison. For his part, Louis has signed an agreement pleading guilty to harassing an unidentified witness in the Fahey case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROTHERS IN CRIME | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Over lunch at a steak house outside Huntington, some men are talking about Randy Moss, the wonderfully gifted wide receiver whom Marshall inherited after 1) Notre Dame turned him away because of a battery charge, and 2) Florida State kicked him out when he admitted to having smoked marijuana. In the eyes of Marshall boosters, however, Moss's biggest crime is insensitivity. It seems he was quoted earlier this fall as having said the plane crash was "nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BONUS STORY: A TRIUMPH OF WILL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...course, the ballot initiative is also home to the ugliest part of democracy ? the wedge issue. There will be no gun locks for children, marijuana for cancer patients or gay rights for workers in Washington State, all because the majority ? who wouldn't have to pay an extra cent ? didn't judge any of these proposals morally correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let the People Speak | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

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