Word: meth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grass," "boo," "tea," "mary jane," "broccoli," "weed") is their favorite preparation; in lesser numbers, they are smoking hashish ("hash"), taking mescaline, peyote, psilocybin, LSD ("acid"), using barbiturates and sedatives ("goofers," "downers," "red devils," "red birds," "pheenies," "green dragons," "yellow jackets," "tooies"), swallowing or injecting amphetamine stimulants ("crystal," "crank," "meth," "bennies," "dexies," "Christmas trees," "speed"). The prices of their mind excursions flutuate almost daily with the black market where kids must make their purchases. Depending on location, a dose of LSD or enough Methedrine for one injection costs around $3, while one Dexedrine pill can be bought for only...
...counselors put at 75%. An estimated third of the total are habitual users." Even more astonishing, the Times found, drug use has penetrated down to the sixth grade and does not always stop with pot: a few 13-year-olds are shooting the far more dangerous "speed" (Meth-edrine). Often, with eerie sophistication they insert the hypodermic into the underside of their tongues to conceal the needle tracks...
...suburban dropout who was murdered with her latest hippie boy friend in a Greenwich Village basement earlier this month, confessed that she was hooked on the drug, and may indeed have been lured to her death by a promise of the stuff. The number of speeders-called "speed freaks," "meth freaks," "meth monsters," or "meth heads"-has, according to the hippies, increased enormously within recent months. Researchers writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimate that in San Francisco alone, 4,000 people regularly inject themselves with powerful amphetamines...
...communities, mostly by teen-agers and would-be hippie converts like Linda Fitzpatrick. "Everybody says, 'Acid: good and good for you. Grass: good like milk and oatmeal cookies,'" notes one Los Angeles rock musician. "So kids begin to think in terms of drugs and they think, 'Meth! Groovy!' But they don't know that it can destroy them...
Indeed it can. The potential for addiction, warn the article's authors, is comparable to that of opiates or cocaine. Worse still, the drug may lead to psychosis or brain damage. About a third of the meth heads questioned at Corona indicated that their memory or ability to concentrate had been impaired by heavy doses. "From descriptions of the intensity of the paranoid state and the hypertension associated with amphetamine use," adds the article, "crimes of violence by amphetamine users appear likely in the future...