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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...
...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...
...morning last week, the tiny (34-ton) whaler Arctic Skipper put out from the weathered jetty at Dildo and chuffed at a steady six knots down Trinity Bay. Deck hands were just finishing their breakfast of fried eggs, sausage and coffee in the tiny galley when a lookout cried: "Pothead!"† Captain Iver Iversen rang the engine signal. As the Skipper picked up speed, the whales sounded. When they came up again, they were heading out to sea, and a deck hand fired a rifle shot to turn them. A red signal flag went up the mast as the whales...
Last week, as the Skipper drove toward Chapel Beach, the Venture swept in its herd, and the small boats closed around more than 150 thrashing whales. Young men and old-like Isaac Higdon, 75, and Bob Newhook, a pothead killer since 1918 -beat empty oil drums and shouted at the top of their voices. The best boatmen in Newfoundland danced their craft among the whales and the long spiked lances stabbed out, turning the frothy water crimson with blood. In its death throes, a whale rammed the boat containing three generations of Higdons. It smashed three planks below the water...