Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This leads back to the question, "why do people smoke marijuana in the first place?" Dr. Preston Munster, Assistant Director of the University Health Services, declared that "anybody who uses drugs, be they marijuana, LSD, mescaline or heroin, has some deep and recognizable psychological problem." This would be difficult to prove or disprove and, even if it were true, it would not answer any questions about conscious motivation...
...idea that pot smokers are "wild youngsters looking for kicks" does not hold up. It may apply to those smoking for the first time, or to those who smoke rarely, but it does not explain regular smokers. The idea that smoking is an escape makes more sense. When a person is "high," good things may seem better, problems may seem less pressing, and he may derive pleasure and amusement from unexpected sources. One man said, "I'd like to stay high twenty-four hours a day, but I guess if I did, I'd never get anything done...
Those who find aesthetic value in smoking marijuana develop their own rituals and mystique. Although they may smoke almost any time and anyplace, they prefer company and settings in which the experience can be "really beautiful." Different people prefer to listen to oriental music or jazz, to look at paintings or simply to walk the streets. In any case, the experienced smoker adjusts his mental attitude to get the greatest possible effect from...
...from several side streets, the attacking columns began pouring point-blank fire-from tanks, cannons, machine guns and rifles-at the protective walls. Back came a murderous counterfire, everything Diem's defenders had left. First one Diem tank caught fire and exploded in a tower of smoke and flame. Then another was knocked out of action. Two of the rebels' tanks were also destroyed...
...Inheritance. As Erhard moves from behind his semiprivate smoke screen into the Chancellor's office, he faces several distinct disadvantages. Though enormously popular, he has no electoral mandate from...