Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amphetamines and barbiturates, the National Institute of Mental Health this spring began a levelheaded information campaign in the mass media. One of its ads pictures a litter of cocktail glasses, pill bottles and an ashtray overflowing with cigarette butts, and asks parents: "Ever wonder why your kid doesn't take you seriously when you lecture him about drugs?" A poster about drugs in psychedelic colors asks kids: "Will they turn you on?Or will they turn...
...supply of marijuana at its source, we will drive prices sky-high and effectively take it out of the hands of 90% of the kids," says Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. Last year alone, U.S. officials estimate, 1,200 tons of marijuana were brought across the Mexican line. Only 70,210 Ibs. were detected. Also, the border leaked 20% of the heroin used in the U.S., refined from Mexican Amapola, the poppy, and an unknown amount of U.S.-made drugs such as amphetamines, which can be bought without prescription in Mexico...
...stopped taking ground-up seeds, though, because once I took them be fore a vacation and had a bad trip [frightening experience]. I had to take a six-hour bus ride and then a plane. I took about 550 seeds just before the bus left. A lot of kids from school on the bus were stoned too. Some had grass and one guy drank two bottles of cough syrup. And it was really good for about an hour but then I started to freak. I felt like jumping off the bus. I just had to move. There were pine trees...
...next day I was feeling really strange. I was psychotically paranoid. I thought people were trying to kill me and that they were behind huge plots against me. When I got back to school about two weeks later, I was pretty normal except that I never wanted to take seeds again...
...haven't been stoned on anything for about a month, and I don't plan to take anything in the near future. Just to groove on reality for a change. I was born straight, so I think I should be straight for most of my life. But I will take acid again. When I'm on acid, I am as stoned as I could ever hope to be. The heavy drugs, like acid or mescaline, totally destroy reality. If I want to get the hell out, I'll just drop some of that good...