Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More freshmen than ever seem to be smoking pot and taking LSD," one proctor said. "The increase since last year is enormous...
...Yard sellers in turn get their marihuana from large suppliers in Cambridge. A typical one is a 22-year-old who dropped out of Harvard after his freshman year. He shifted around Cambridge doing odd jobs until a friend of his from New York told him about the pot market. Now the friend supplies the Cambridge seller with pot from what is probably a large New York organization, which gets the stuff from Mexico...
Just how widespread drug use has become is hard to say. There are no statistics on the subject, and reliable ones would be nearly impossible to get. But discussions with students, proctors, and psychiatrists indicate that 25 to 30 per cent of the class has smoked pot at least once. Estimates run from 10 to 70 per cent...
Marijuana is more popular for several reasons. Freshmen have the impression that it is "safe," that the laws against its use are ridiculous and unenforced. There is also an idea that the Administration views pot as it does liquor. That is wrong. The University has strong rules against the use of drugs, but it hesitates to make public statements about them...
...Pot, freshmen also believe, is not as harmful as LSD. Everyone knows stories of people going crazy after a bad trip, but marijuana comes off mild. It is also far more accessible...