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...Ursula's book Next Time We Live it was that simple. But the author's real-life current hero was also charged with helping run a reefer flat in Manhattan where marijuana cigarets were smoked by soldiers & sailors. This sort of thing might enchant the shade of Baudelaire, but it is vexing to narcotics squads...
...where the blacktop road bites into the red clay of eastern Alabama like a suture in raw flesh, the Fourth Division's Reconnaissance Troop halted. They climbed stiffly down from armored scout cars spaced a precise 25 yards apart, pushed goggles back from windburned, dusty faces, dug in reefer pockets for cigarets. Motorcyclists propped their machines on stands, squinted appraisingly at engines. The long-legged, flat-backed Troop Commander brushed oil-stains from his face with a reddened hand and walked back along the column, to see how things were...
...series of drawings. The Kaiser gave the Gibson Girl his official approval. There were songs about la fille Gibson on the Paris boulevards. A framed Gibson girl was as important to the U.S. undergraduate of 30 years ago as a bulldog pipe and a pearl-buttoned reefer...
Radio listeners to a broadcast by "Ozzie" Nelson's band at the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan, heard the announcer say one midnight: "The next number will be 'Reefer Man,' * at the request of one of our distinguished guests, Senator Huey Long." The Senator's companion that evening: plump, dimple-kneed little Dancer Ann Pennington...
...back yard, will grow into a yardful of marijuana. Marijuana is a variety of hemp weed (Cannabis sativa) long common in Mexico, lately becoming common in the U. S. Its leaves can be dried, ground and rolled into cigarets, which are bootlegged under the name of "muggles," "reefers," or "Mary Warners." Thinner, shorter than standard cigarets, "muggles" are made from the small delicate leaves of the female marijuana plant. The male plant has no potency. Smoking of marijuana cigarets produces a state of intoxication similar to that induced by alcohol, stimulates playfulness, suppresses fear. Thousands are smoked in Harlem...