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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Youth is not alone. In Missoula, Mont., for example, housewives outraged by the foul smells from a local pulp plant have organized GASP (Gals Against Smoke and Pollution). Similar groups have used the same acronym in other cities including Washington, where GASP stands for Greater Alliance to Stop Pollution. In Berkeley, a group called Ecology Action has developed a kind of street theater to dramatize pollution protests. To celebrate "Smog-Free Locomotion Day," the members recently took to pogo sticks, stilts, bicycles, unicycles, roller skates-any and every alternative to the internal combustion engine. Later they symbolically buried an auto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecology: America the Befouled | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...course this is only one reviewer's judgment. To those who have read The Man Who Cried I Am. the catastrophic developments of Sons of Darkness does not, cannot have the same thunderous shock effect. As a friend who has read both books said. "The world going up in smoke blows your mind the first time; the second time it doesn't quite come...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: From the Shelf Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light 279 pages; Little, Brown and Co.; $5.95 | 10/6/1969 | See Source »

...same cat was up in a loft blowing grass. I didn't know what that was then either. I thought it was like heroin. I thought it was really bad. This chick who was a friend of his said, "Why don't you come up and smoke some?" So I went up there and started smoking it out of this Chinese opium pipe. We smoked it for a long time. Finally I climbed down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning On: Two Views: A TeenAger's Trip | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

Then I went home and waited for the right mood. Almost any will do, although it's best not to smoke if you're extra anxious or depressed, since grass can amplify these feelings. I was also warned to be careful if I mixed pot in food-Alice B. Toklas brownies or "apple turn-on." These concoctions can take as long as two hours to have any effect, and if you get impatient and eat more, you can start feeling paranoid and even vomit. I learned to smoke with friends. Pot is best when shared with other people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Straight Adult | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...inhaled deeply, holding the smoke down as long as possible, and passed the joint. The chances are excellent that nothing will happen to any first-timer, mostly because he has such fear about marijuana that he fights off its effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Straight Adult | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

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