Word: pots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago on nearby Ellesmere Island. Instead, shallow burial in the Arctic soil has left the forest in a mummified state. As a result, says Basinger, "you can saw the wood. You can burn it." Indeed, during an expedition to the site in July, he actually brewed a pot of tea over burning fossil debris...
Drugs stayed on the fringes of society throughout the '50s, but Beat Generation artists began enhancing their perceptions with pot and later with more mind-bending hallucinogens. LSD's hallucinogenic qualities were discovered by a chemist who accidentally swallowed a dose in 1943. By the early '60s, an obscure Harvard lecturer named Timothy Leary began feeding his students LSD and advising them to "turn on, tune in, drop out." Fired by Harvard, he promptly became a counterculture deity...
...youth rebellion, the fact that parents were shocked by drugs was all the more reason for children to take them. Hollywood and Broadway, ever sensitive to changing mores, romanticized the drug culture with pot-smoking antiheroes in Easy Rider (1969) and let-it-all-hang-out hippies in Hair (1968). "In the 1960s the baby boomers got fooled into thinking, just like the people in the 1890s, that you could use drugs recreationally and not get addicted to them," says the National Cocaine Hotline's Washton. "Marijuana had a meaning beyond just getting high. It was the source of shared...
Even so, illicit drug use had become so deeply entrenched that it continued to permeate all levels of society, particularly the youth culture. While still illegal, drug use became socially acceptable in many quarters. Pot was smoked as openly as tobacco in some city parks and on street corners, while police looked the other way. Newly popular man-made chemicals like phencyclidine, better known as angel dust or PCP, drove users into violent frenzies, making the myth of wild-eyed drug fiends, which had been scoffed at by '60s college students, a horrifying reality...
...marked the second coming of cocaine. It was the perfect drug for the Me generation. "The new morality of young America is success, the high- performance ethic," says University of Massachusetts Professor Ralph Whitehead. "Pot bred passivity. On alcohol you can't perform well. You smell. People can tell when you've been drinking. But cocaine fits the new value system. It feeds it and confounds it. Young adults walk a tight line between high performance and self-indulgence, and cocaine puts the two together...