Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fernando Ed, it seems, is no isolated case. Today illegally grown pot is the nation's fourth largest cash crop. Law-enforcement officials insist that it ranks just behind corn, soybeans and wheat in market value. Last year's marijuana harvest had an estimated street value of $8.5 billion; in each of more than 30 states, law-defying entrepreneurs produced crops worth at least $100 million at retail. California's harvest, worth an almost unbelievable but reasonably documented $1.5 billion at retail, led the list. Hawaii was second; its $750 million crop rivaled the sugar-cane...
...Pot patches have been spotted everywhere by overworked law-enforcement officials: between rows of corn on Iowa farms, in narrow strips along streambeds in the Ozarks, in cleared plots on timberland owned by giant companies, even on public lands. Says Ernie Anderson, the Forest Service's director of law enforcement: "We've had reports of marijuana cultivation on practically every one of the 154 national forests and grasslands...
...profit of growing pot has lured not only the leftover hippies of the 1960s but even well-educated professionals, including lawyers and stockbrokers, as well as many laid-off workers or financially squeezed farmers. Few, though, are trying-to-make-ends-meet amateurs in the underground trade. Says a Kansas police official: "Most growers around here have a lot of pride, know-how and a college degree in agriculture." Not many demonstrate excessive guilt about their lawbreaking. Says an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration: "People don't perceive growing marijuana as being really wrong, even though...
...Education. "When I was a kid I'd go around with my father, and once I met this guy behind a bar room called the Pepper Pot, sittin' on a log, smokin' a joint or somethin', just relaxing. I was a little kid coming to bother him, and he just took time to tell me things about music. I didn't even know it was Professor Longhair...
...term harmful effects of marijuana use. But we are also concerned about the possible harm that can be done to kids by throwing them in jail with hardened criminals." In fact, the report had originally gone even further, suggesting that legalization might eventually emerge as the best approach to pot. An N.A.S. review panel and the committee agreed, however, to water down that observation. The only solace for the committee may be that the official potshot at the report has brought it attention it might not otherwise have received-a self-defeating result that is somewhat analogous to the committee...