Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their rude patches in the remote valleys of California stand embattled small farmers defending pot that is known around the world for its high quality: sinsemilla (a Spanish-derived word meaning without seed), an unusually potent hybrid marijuana. Ever since Mexico began widespread spraying of its pot fields with the herbicide paraquat, cutting shipments to the U.S., sinsemilla has become one of California's fastest growing-and most profitable-crops. California's pot patches range from small gardens with a few plants to 2½-acre fields that may yield up to 4,000 sinsemilla plants, some with...
Fortunately, Americans have a few weeks before they have to decide whether to grab for the monetarist pot of gold. The failures of the Thatcher government in its first year should alert us to the dangerous consequences that can result from the application of "economics-made-simple" to complex national problems. Perhaps then we should pay more heed to the words of the 4000 unemployed who picketed the Brighton conference than to Thatcher's cutesy, Reagan-like pun, "The lady's not for turning." Once you hold your breath and take in your belt for the ride down the monetarist...
...tons of marijuana a year in Florida, presenting them with a disposal problem that is literally too hot to handle: marijuana burns at such high temperatures that conventional incinerators can be damaged. So, as a favor, the Florida Power and Light Co. has offered to turn the confiscated pot into kilowatts at its Port Everglades power plant...
...marijuana will be pulverized and blown into the plant's furnaces, which now burn either natural gas or oil. Company officials figure that each ton of pot equals 2.7 bbl. of oil and will produce 2,000 kilowatt hours of electricity-only a tiny fraction of the plant's daily output, so pot power will not significantly reduce customers' bills. Officials also believe that smoke from the generator's 350-ft. stack will not turn on passersby. But just to be sure, they plan to conduct test burns. Until then, the Miami News last week advised...
...Sorrenti says he sells pot for a living and thinks he does a good business. "It's much cheaper to live here than in Boston," Sorrenti says--before inquiring if anyone would like some "herbs...