Word: potted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pidgeons in such numbers we see fly That like a cloud they do make dark the sky; And in such multitudes are sometimes found, As that they cover both the trees and ground: He that advances near with one good shot, May kill enough to fill both spit and pot...
...just completed hearings on whether to recommend exemption of marijuana from the state narcotics law, and will deliver a decision next month. In Rhode Island, testimony pro and con has been heard on the constitutionality of the state marijuana restrictions in the trial of three students for selling pot; a decision is due shortly. New York State is preparing to try Literary Critic Leslie Fiedler and his wife next week for maintaining premises where marijuana was used. In Michigan, a bill designed to make marijuana lawful was introduced at the last session of the legislature and is awaiting consideration...
...first marijuana law in the U.S. was passed by Congress in 1937. Use of the hallucinogen was then centered in New Orleans, and little was known about it. Scare stories about marijuana leading to a crime wave prompted Congress to provide stiff penalties: up to five years for any pot offense. Now the maximum is 40 years. No probation is allowed for second offenders and a minimum sentence of five years is mandatory. In most states, no difference was seen between pot and such other drugs as heroin and opium; all were usually lumped under the same general narcotic...
...Fashioned. Available medical knowledge, argues Oteri, makes such a lack of distinction hopelessly oldfashioned. For one thing, LSD, which was not around when pot was banned, will earn the user or seller far less of a sentence than marijuana, though LSD is known to produce dangerous and long-range effects and pot is not. Furthermore, said Oteri, pot is not really dangerous at all, and he introduced a series of expert witnesses to back up his contention. Almost everyone is now agreed that marijuana is neither a true narcotic nor addictive, but Oteri's experts went further. They absolved...
...program, initiated by the House President who requested aid from the Radcliffe Administration, will consist of informal discussions on "what pot means in terms of adolescent culture and relationships," said Dr. Paul Walters, a psychiatrist at the Health Center. Walters is considering a separate meeting for the Residents in the Houses...