Word: users
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of History of Science, said that science has outlived its usefulness to society because of its history of separating knowledge and technique from the actual user...
...report maintained that the overwhelming majority of marijuana users do not turn to hard drugs. It also found little link between marijuana and crime or violence, and even suggested that less regulation of marijuana might curtail the use of heroin by taking "the young marijuana user out of a criminal drug-using culture...
Grinspoon questioned the effectiveness of such measures. "The Commission, in protecting the user and going after the seller, apparently assumes that these are two non-overlapping groups of people: they are not; almost all sellers use, and many users sell," he said...
...lighters to lipsticks. There is also the $9.98 electric shock rod, a gadget that operates on four ordinary flashlight batteries and, according to the firm that markets it, releases "enough power to stop an angry bull in its tracks." The rod is more likely to prove shocking to the user when it fails to deter the attacker...
...protective devices are of questionable value. Sharpened canes, electric cattle prods and steel-knobbed umbrellas can be wrestled from the grasp of a struggling victim and turned against him. Sprays, for all their sophistication, have a nasty and altogether self-defeating tendency to blow back in the user's face. There is even a drawback to "Super Sound," an ear-piercing air horn attached to an aerosol can and designed to summon help while startling attackers. It can damage the hearing of mugger and muggee alike...