Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the most recent studies, some 24 million Americans have tried marijuana, and approximately 13 million smoke it at least occasionally. Last week the Government had both good and bad news for them. A White House adviser softened the Administration's stand against the abolition of legal penalties for marijuana use. But he suggested that the drug may well have serious effects on a smoker's health. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, Dr. Robert L. DuPont, director of the President's special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, warned that marijuana's effects...
...habitual use of marijuana can lower the levels of male sex hormones in some men. Those findings, coupled with other research indicating that lower hormone levels in rats can prevent their male fetuses from developing normally, have been of growing concern to doctors; they wonder whether pregnant women who smoke marijuana might harm their unborn babies...
Less than 30 days after the smoke cleared from the gun that killed Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, John S. Harwell received a call from a Harvard administrator inviting him to become an admissions officer for minority students at Harvard. The first question the administrator asked was: "Are you, in fact, black...
...observes: "You'll notice that even poor people like good liquor these days." Another explanation comes from a seventyish great-grandmother who operates a general store in North Carolina's moonshine capital of Wilkes County: "All these kids want to do these days," she maintains, "is smoke thet marry-wanna...
...experienced drivers. They were asked to drive through a complex course that included a slalom through markers, a couple of tunnels, a number of turns and other maneuvers. The subjects were given two chances to drive through the course, and their scores were recorded. Then they were asked to smoke a marijuana cigarette and try again. In almost all cases, the test drivers did not per form as well after pot as they did be fore. They did no better on the road. Before smoking, the volunteers all man aged to negotiate Vancouver's streets without any major problems...