Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lower class, is now not such a terrible thing at all. You can talk about it at cocktail parties, tell your friends that you (or someone you know) has tried it, and you can condemn those anachronistic drug laws. The gut re-action most people used to have to pot users -- lumping them together with hard-line heroin addicts and calling the whole lot disgusting--is rapidly vanishing...
...much of America is blasting drug laws. The Wellesley News runs a Legalize Marijuana editorial. And Boston attorney Joseph Oteri defends two young men in Suffolk Superior Court in a major test case on the constitutionality of pot laws...
...Oteri has paraded a series of impressive witnesses before Judge Tauro, like his first star, Dr. Joel Fort of San Francisco, who said that drug use is "pervasive in American Society"--30-50 per cent of the urban college population have used pot. He also said that marijuana is practically college population have used pot. He also said that marijuana is practically harmless and in some cases beneficial...
...that is a long time off. What about now? Those who care are planning civil disobedience -- like Sunday's Smoke-In on the Boston Common. But protesting pot laws by smoking joints in the park is like protesting fornication laws by copulating in the streets. It is an absurd reaction to an absurd law. You know, you really can enjoy a smoke in the privacy of your own room (which is where hippies like to smoke it) without much chance of being hauled off to jail...
...crowd blocked traffic, the cyclists whipped up Beacon Hill one by one, peeling out on their back wheels. Part of the crowd stood on the steps of the State House yelling, "Legalize Pot...