Word: pothead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...straddle motorcycles instead of horses, and they smoke marijuana instead of tobacco. But the central characters in Easy Rider are as remote as the freedom they are seeking. Wyatt (Peter Fonda) is a vague, unshaven pothead who likes to refer to himself as "Captain America." His manic sidekick Billy (Dennis Hopper) has a droopy Stephen Crane mustache and shiny eyes fixed on some wild interior vision. Flush from the profits of dope selling, the cyclists symbolically cast off their wristwatches and head for that persistent American symbol of adventure, The Road...
Practically everybody, whether doctor or layman, pothead or puritan, has been expressing dogmatic opinions for years about the effects of marijuana on its users. It therefore came as a surprise last week when a team of Harvard and Boston University investigators reported that they had just conducted the first truly scientific tests ever made on the subject. Their findings, which appear in Science magazine, confirm some popular ideas about marijuana's effects and expose others as completely false. The drug, the investigators concluded, "appears to be a relatively mild intoxicant, with minor, real, shortlived effects." It seems to have...
...well-known" effect of marijuana did not occur. Many policemen say that they can spot a pothead by the dilation of his pupils. Not so, say the researchers. Or if so, the cause is not marijuana but the fact that potheads have done their smoking in dimly lit rooms, where the pupils naturally dilate. The tests also failed to confirm an assumption that pot causes an increase in appetite by lowering the level of blood sugar. The subjects showed no changes in blood sugar, so why marijuana smokers get so hungry remains a mystery...
...should be grateful to The Poisoned Ivy for two precious anecdotes it has left us: (1) Detectives bust an instructor at Yale. One says: "Christ, look at this psychedelic pad. Look at it, would you?" Another says later: "Christ sakes, you sure as Hell go for this pothead stuff in a big way, don't you? What...