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Word: marti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the cops burst into a Hollywood house where blonde, 18-year-old Marti Robertson and a 21-year-old boy friend were smoking marijuana last week, Marti didn't argue with them. "I'm really turned on, man," she cried. "I'm higher than a giraffe's toupee. I started blasting when I was 13." Her two dogs, she confided, like marijuana too. "When the pups were two months old, I'd blow weed smoke in a paper bag and put it over their heads. I did the same for the canary. Sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Mother Is Bugged at Me | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

Everybody's a Head. Being a "head," Marti feels, is being part of a whole new culture. "Everybody's a head now. One out of every five persons you meet on the street are heads. But all those things they say about them aren't true. There are lots of blowing cats [musicians] who have been smoking for years. Lots of doctors. People aren't the sharpest. They don't catch on. Not even on junk. You know you don't have to stand in the middle of the living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Mother Is Bugged at Me | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

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