Word: potted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constitutional rights, protections and entitlements for whole groups of people?for example, disenfranchised voters, women, Latins, prisoners, children, mental patients. Countless others, emboldened by seven-figure awards in personal injury suits, have gone to court in quest of what San Francisco Defense Lawyer Scott Conley sardonically calls the "pot of gold at the end of every whiplash." At the same time, legislative bodies of every size across America have been spewing forth new laws at a prodigious rate, more than 100,000 in some years; as it happens, more than half of the members of Congress and one-fifth...
Your story "Pot Smugglers' Paradise" [March 13], about drug runners in Florida points out that the good guys are losing, and losing big. All American taxpayers foot the bill for Government's role in this game, and pot consumers (by and large taxpayers also) pay the bill to organized crime for the "insurance" made necessary by the DEA and other Government agencies...
...enough to make even the most devoted of pot smokers pause before toking up: the news that Mexican marijuana contaminated by a deadly herbicide is circulating widely...
...National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) recently announced a plan to examine pot samples for evidence of paraquat, the carcinogenic defoliant sprayed on Mexican marijuana plants in a U.S. government-sponsored effort to kill the weed at its source...
...narrow for even a bicycle to navigate. New York City lights are synchronized so that if your timing is right, you can drive for fifty or sixty blocks without hitting a red light. Cabbies always insist upon perfect timing, even if it means a high-speed chase through the pot-holed streets of the City. Commuting by cab is a sure-fire route to hypertension, ulcers and the inability to lace up one's own Adidas. It's kind of like the rolled coaster, whip, and bumper cars all rolled into one and set loose on the streets...