Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pot is still legally hazardous...
David Miller, a student at Rutgers, "didn't think it could happen." When his roommate called the police to report a burglary in their New Jersey house, Miller's budding cannabis plants were in plain view. Said he: "I know more people who smoke pot than smoke cigarettes." The police, when they arrived, were less blase. They arrested and handcuffed his roommate on the spot. Miller later pleaded guilty to charges of possession in order to clear his roommate's name and challenge the constitutionality of the police search...
...increase in arrests appears to be due less to a boost in police zeal than to the all too noticeable proliferation of pot smoking. The Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that some 30 million lbs. of marijuana were imported or grown in the U.S. last year, up from some 26 million five years ago. Even in states where budget cuts have reduced police manpower, drug busts are way up-often inadvertently. Patrolmen discover marijuana seeds in a car stopped for speeding or, as in hapless Miller's case, while responding to a burglary report...
...reality, of course, turned out quite differently: instead of further melting the pot, the pluralistic frenzy of the sixties helped in many ways to polarize the ingredients. Nevertheless, in their subsequent starry-eyed attempts since then to foster complete racial harmony, many Americans have forgotten a basic fact people will always find irresistable interest in categorizing others on the basis of race, class, beliefs, or some other distinctive trait...
...automobiles and where Jewish, Muslim and Christian neighborhoods form a cohesive entity. City districts are bonded by bustling streets that serve both traffic and shopping, as well as parks and recreation areas that provide contact and interaction. Says Kollek, extravagantly: "We are not trying to create a monolithic melting pot but a multicultural mosaic in a pluralistic society...