Word: potted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those who use marijuana to excess, it is known, run the risk of lessened intellectual activity. Pot partisans point out that those who use alcohol to excess not only lessen intellectual activity but cause damage to the brain, liver and heart as well. The A.M.A.-N.R.C. report contents itself with pointing out that social productivity is reduced in those areas of Asia, Africa and South America where heavy use of marijuana is common...
With society constantly changing, court decisions must deal with questions involving a broadening range of activities-from swimming in pools to smoking pot. Some recent examples...
...Federal Government curtail marijuana use by requiring those who deal in the drug to register and pay a tax? Since possession of pot is illegal in every state-even when the tax is paid-and since the name of anyone buying a tax stamp is made public, U.S. District Court Judge Frank Theis ruled last month in Wichita, Kans., that practically speaking the law cannot be enforced constitutionally. Following the reasoning of the U.S. Supreme Court, which found similar defects in tax laws dealing with guns and gamblers, Theis held that enforcement of the marijuana tax violated the constitutional guarantee...
...every day the statue was painted a different color. So quite recently the authorities moved it into the Harvard Yard." The Sunglassed Voice seemed to be having a lot of trouble with his chronology. "I'm told you can buy anything you want in Harvard Square. Anything at all, Pot, anything. Notice the car registrations. They're from all over the world, and I do mean all over the world. Up here on the right is the gray public administration building whert John F. Kennedy went to classes at Harvard...
...defiance in dress: beards beneath the mortarboards, microskirts or faded Levis under the academic gowns. More often, and far more significantly, it emerges in a growing skepticism and concern about the accepted values and traditions of American society. Some of these graduates will become draft dodgers. Many smoke pot. Fewer than ever remain virginal. Yet it is also true that the cutting edge of this class includes the most conscience-stricken, moralistic and, perhaps, the most promising graduates in U.S. academic history...