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...MOSCOW, YOU BIG RADIAL! [sic]. Uncertain about whether he wanted to continue teaching, Bennett in 1969 enrolled in Harvard Law School, meanwhile working as a dorm proctor and tutor. John Carnutte, now an immunologist in California, recalls arriving at Harvard from Dixon, Illinois, accompanied by his mother. "There were marijuana clouds over Harvard Square and all these protesters with long hair, and then we see this big, burly, clean-cut guy wearing a blue work shirt and smiling," Carnutte said. "He picked up my trunk locker on his back and carried it up four flights of stairs to my room...
...million Americans have tried marijuana. That's a lot of people using a substance we all say we abhor. Before we can get any traction on controlling pot (which accounts for most of the rise in teen drug use), the generation that popularized the stuff has got to finally come clean about what made it so alluring in the first place--and then square that with current marijuana policy. A good start might be for every middle-aged public official in America to take the following oath...
...further concede that small marijuana transactions were at one time so commonplace that I may have even forgotten being involved in one. In the event that I did sell a friend a single JOINT, I accept that that activity renders me a former DRUG TRAFFICKER, guilty of an offense that is now punishable by several years in prison...
...must agree with Calvin Trillin's comment in "High on Experimentation" [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 19] on the silliness of Republican Representative Susan Molinari's disclaimer that she only "experimented" with marijuana. The only sillier statement would be "I didn't inhale." BOB BERRY Hillsborough, California...
...surprise, then, at a report in the current Nature. Chemicals found in chocolate, it seems, go after the same brain receptor system targeted by marijuana. In theory, you could even get high on chocolate--though not easily. Unlike THC, the active ingredient in pot, chocolate's chemicals turn on only a few circumscribed regions of the brain. A 130-lb. person would have to eat about 25 lb. of the stuff in one sitting to get a noticeable buzz...