Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smoking marijuana-also called pot, tea, grass, stuff, boo, hemp and Mary Jane-seems to be this year's way among students of preserving the perennial illusion that the younger generation is going to hell. Statistics on the problem are nonexistent, and its extent is tough to gauge. School officials normally ignore it or hush it up; students with first-hand knowledge are prone to boastful exaggeration; arrests are relatively rare...
...Most pot parties are not really so wild. "You don't go around ripping off your clothes or anything." one coed says. Typically, one recent evening in a darkened Cambridge apartment near Harvard, two girls and two boys lounged around a candle, smoked four joints (each three inches long and less than a quarter-inch thick) in 21 hours. At first they chattered animatedly about what records to play: Charlie Parker won out over a Bach B Minor Mass, and the sound track from Black Orpheus over Charlie Mingus. Then the smokers lapsed into sporadic metaphors and banalities. They...
Illegal Togetherness, Part of pot's attraction is "doing something illegal together," says one teenager. Another part, obviously, is the hallucinatory effect: "You think a lot of trivial thoughts -millions of little tiny thoughts go racing through your head." One girl, trying to capture such fantasies while high, wrote: "Notes from hemp head. Oh dear, the silent nothing around is very silent and very nothing. Outside seems terribly distant. I hear people talking and they are funny-because I am listening with illegal ears...
...Danger: Habituation. How perilous is pot? Medical authorities agree that it is not biochemically addictive, that it does not induce the physiological craving or withdrawal symptoms of such drugs as heroin or cocaine. It affects the user's judgment, and if used daily, will dull a student's initiative and drive, but on the whole, "marijuana is probably less dangerous than alcohol," insists Rand Corp.'s drug expert William McGlothlin. "The dangers have been grossly overrated and the legal penalties are far too severe...
What could be alluring enough to oust 210 Harvard undergraduates out of bed at 9 a.m. to wait in line in front of the Athletic Office for as much as an hour and a half in freezing weather? Intellectual curiosity? Beer? Pot? The Harvard basketball team...