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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...
Thousands milled pensively at the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets, in the district where in 1965 the Dead first kicked open the doors of perception with its perky anthems to the Hippie Nation. The sweet sting of reefer smoke drifted from doorways, as Jerry's kids paid the revered pothead a small toke of their esteem. A tree outside Ben & Jerry's ice cream parlor (where a flavor is named Cherry Garcia) was adorned with photos, scarves and roses, many roses...
...Finger Man" at 2, 5:50 and 9:45 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 11. "Once a Thief" at 4 and 8 p.m. and "Heroes Shed No Tears" at 6:05 and 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 12. "High School Confidential!" and "Reefer Madness" at 6:15 and 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday...
...Reform of Marijuana Laws, it has roots in several decades. Steve Bloom, music editor of High Times, points to the bebop-jazz musicians of the '40s as influences on many pro-pot hip-hop performers. Re-Hash Records has released Marijuana's Greatest Hits Revisited, new versions of reefer songs written between the '30s and '70s. "We didn't start this," acknowledges B-Real of the rap group Cypress Hill, who says he smokes pot almost every day. "We're the newest to hit with it. We're revitalizing the pot movement...