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In Yemen shortly after the Suez War, I heard a black dock porter reciting an epic poem to a group who lounged in the cafe smoking the hubble-bubble pipe and chewing qat (a mildly narcotic green leaf). Normally, he would have chanted verses about heroes of the past. On...
Pushing and Lifting. Attorney General John Mitchell estimates that one out of every 40 workers in the U.S. uses drugs illegally. A survey by Chicago's Industrial Relations Newsletter concluded that three out of every four U.S. plants with 50 or more employees have a serious drug problem. The...
Small wonder that Irving Kahn, president of TelePrompTer Corp., the nation's second largest CATV firm, feels that this service has as much potential as "a legal narcotic" and has long talked about hooking up 85% of U.S. households within a decade. But CATV is, in fact, now 20...
Police arrested 16 persons in this first bust on charges ranging from unlawful possession of narcotic drugs with intent to sell to being present where narcotic drugs were being kept.
Gradual Ban. Partly out of indifference, partly because of some real difficulties, Ankara and Paris have been slow to attack the heroin problem. Under the 1961 United Nations convention on narcotic drugs, Turkey is one of eight countries permitted to export opium poppies for medical purposes. Some 70,000 farmers...