Word: reefer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only bands named for a brand of chewy, peanut-flavored sweets, the Squirrel Nut Zippers epitomize the ultralounge sound. Expect them to play some of their perennial favorites, like "Santa Claus is Smoking Reefer" and "St. Louis Cemetary Blues." With Chapel Hill roots, they are a college favorite. 7 p.m., The Roxy, 279 Tremont Street, Boston...
...became boutiques--but right now it looks as if there's no other place he'd rather spend the weekend than a staid Midwestern city hours from the nearest beach. "Saturday night in Cincinnati--it don't get no better than this!" Buffett yelps as his 13-piece Coral Reefer Band takes the stage in Mardi Gras costumes and towering headdresses. The crowd at the Riverbend amphitheater roars its agreement: 18,500 otherwise respectable people, many in full tropical regalia--foam parrot hats, grass skirts and coconut-shell bras. And that's just the men. (Let's not even discuss...
...serious study of dementia praecox. Esper used the old carny come-on--it's so sinful you have to pay to see it--in Tell Your Children, a silly antidrug screed produced by a Los Angeles church group. After he added some skin, Esper retitled the film Reefer Madness and made a bundle...
There it is again: the Marijuana Exception...the Reefer Loophole. All the idiots who drank Canadian Club and Heineken for breakfast, or wrecked themselves on smack or meth--they know they done wrong. But "merely" smoking pot? Well...
...marijuana question remains--and is in some ways a more complicated dilemma than, say, heroin, because the problem is morally, culturally and politically subtler. The young indulging in pot these days are mostly the children of the baby boomers, who, once upon a time in the '60s, took to reefer as their recreational sacrament, their generation's almost universal drug of defiance. Now the boomers, who were raised on episodes of Ozzie and Harriet (and, if anything, identified with David and Ricky), find, to their astonishment, that they themselves have become Ozzie and Harriet: middle-aged! Parents! Conventional...