Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first full year under this program, New York State would receive $117 million out of a $1 billion pot. New York City would then receive approximately $50 million of this, amounting to less than one per cent of its present budget...
...five years Nixon's plan would increase the central pot to $5 billion, resulting in New York City receiving about $250 million. But if the City's budget grows at the same pace that it has been growing for the last decade, from $2.2 billion to $6.6 billion, this still will not amount to more than two per cent of the City's budget...
...consider this: Ted and Alice are square (!). They are nice squares they are friendly squares, they are lovable squares. They have your sympathies from the outset-not only by default, but because they really are swell people. They want to be able to smoke pot without coughing; they want to believe in Esalen; they want to dig wife-swapping. If they rather than Bob and Carol, had gone to Esalen, they might even have been saved...
Mazursky has also learned to stop copping out on some small philosophical points. For instance, since he made I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, he has clearly done a little pot smoking; the "getting stoned" scene in his new picture has no freaking out and colored lights. Mazursky provides, at last, an honest, non-exploitational treatment of the joys of grass in a Hollywood film...
Even though she has no taste for the stuff herself, as far as Margaret Mead is concerned, puffing on pot is not a dangerous pastime. In Washington to testify before a Senate subcommittee studying drug abuse, the aging (67) but very much tuned-in anthropologist asserted that marijuana is less toxic than tobacco and milder than booze. What is harmful, she said, is the law banning the drug. As she put it: "There is the adult with a cocktail in one hand and a cigarette in the other telling the child. 'You cannot.' " The answer, Dr. Mead told...