Word: paraquat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consume about 130,000 lbs. per day, quadruple the 1974 consumption, and they spend $25 billion per year on their pleasure. Mexico provided most of the best marijuana until two years ago, when the government there began cracking down on drug smugglers and spraying marijuana fields with the herbicide paraquat. Colombia moved rapidly to fill the gap. It now provides roughly two-thirds of all the pot smoked in the U.S. "Colombia is the largest supplier of marijuana in the world," says Peter Bensinger, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "It's a trafficker's paradise...
...castoff mistress. The movie has more plot than Birth of a Nation, and there is no sign anywhere (save during the credits) of a panther; but those who have battered their thought processes through four previous PPs could care less: they just want more, if possible without paraquat...
Harvard considered joining the City of Cambridge in an--er--joint effort to test marijuana for traces of paraquat, a poisonous herbicide used by he Mexican government in its anti-pot campaign, which may cause severe lung damage in anyone who smokes treated dope. The University, however, had to weigh its concern for student health against the state's contention that the dope testing would be illegal, and held off from full cooperation with the city. "There is a question of violating the law--we're in marijuana never-never land on this one." University Counsel Dan Steiner '54 admitted...
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...wonder if Dr. Bourne, in your story about spraying marijuana with paraquat [May 1], really believes that the people ever gave him or any other elected or appointed official a mandate to make our lives or parts of them "totally safe." If I wanted to be totally safe, I would expect legislation against getting out of bed. Does Dr. Bourne want me to believe that he is trying to save anyone from a dangerous substance by using another dangerous substance...