Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Death & Burial. Around the U.S., there exists what California Pollster Mervin Field describes as "a general uneasiness"-over Viet Nam, high prices, an ever-rising crime rate, the seeming ineradicability of poverty, the restlessness of the younger generation, the increasing use of a whole pharmacopoeia of drugs, from pot to peyote. A Gallup sampling showed that 58% of Americans consider income taxes too high-and the figure will surely swell if Johnson decides to slap a 6% surcharge on income tax rates. If he does not, the Administration may well end the current fiscal year with a deficit...
...19th and early 20th centuries in a setting of red wine, turpentine, bawdy songs in beery baritones, long flowing skirts for the women, and a general clamor for free love, free thought and freeloading. Bohemians were a very different tribe from today's subcultural exponents of acid, pot, Zen, odd sex, no-war and not-much-art. The bohemians bellowed defiance at the Establishment and their rules, paradoxically, were harder to live by than those of the Establishment itself. A republic of art rather than a state of trance was their...
...example students who take drugs at the University know that they will be received with open arms at the Health Center, but they may have heard stories about psychiatrists lecturing students on the "problem of pot." Most drug-users don't consider pot a problem, but rather feel that the society which sees pot as a problem is sick...
...three young ex-addicts to combat the growing drug addiction among teenagers. The method is group therapy, and if the approach is brutal, so is the problem. Across the nation, teen-age addiction is soaring, and it is no longer confined to the slums. For in pills and pot and LSD today's teen-agers are finding not only an avenue of escape but a cool symbol of rebellion...
...Sarah Lawrence the college administration has become increasingly concerned about freshmen smoking marihuana. There are estimates that 20 per cent are using pot there...