Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such, in the Stygian view of a girl correspondent for the underground newspaper Washington Free Press, was the scene before the Pentagon last week. Another rumor that passed around as quickly as a marijuana joint at a pot party had it that two antiwar marchers had been dragged into the Pentagon and summarily executed...
Would he object to his son or daughter using marijuana? "We've discussed this at home," said Goddard. "I would object in terms of the law today and any possible long-term effects." Discounting the suggestion made by some authorities that pot leads to an addiction to other, stronger drugs, Goddard explained that while "it is true most heroin users have smoked marijuana, it is also true that most heroin users have drunk milk. I have seen no proof that there is any connection...
...unneeded vitamin pills and had roundly condemned children's candy cigarettes-which he thinks might lead them eventually to the real thing. Last week, though he later qualified his remarks enough to note the legal and possible long-term hazards of marijuana, Goddard's basic equation of pot and liquor still stood. Immediate outrage followed. Among the most incensed was Dr. Robert W. Baird, director of the Haven narcotics clinic in Harlem and chairman of the Suffolk County (N.Y.) narcotics-control commission. Dr. Goddard, said Dr. Baird, has done "irreparable damage across the college campuses as well...
Police later arrested three Negroes: Donald Ramsey, 26, who wears the fez of the Yoruba sect, a Black Nationalist cult, and whose apartment on the fifth floor of the murder building is decorated with Black Power posters; Thomas Dennis, also 26, a pot-smoking wino who hung out on the hippie fringe and proclaimed a code of racial violence; and Fred Wright, 31, assistant janitor in the building who lived in a small room just off the cellar, and who was held on "related" charges of raping and robbing another hippie girl just hours before the slayings. Wright was reputed...
...evening session convened at about 8 p.m., after an informal dinner filled with talk of pot, free love, and the radicalization of American society. "The discussion floundered for about 20 minutes," recalls one student participant, "before Cohen opened...