Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outset, let me declare that I am confident that in many respects the public exaggerates the evils associated with the use of marihuana. Occasional use, considered strictly from a health standpoint, apart from social consequences, has not been demonstrated to be deleterious. One may assume (although this has not been clearly proven) that the physical welfare of an individual is at least as gravely prejudiced by occasional use of alcohol and constant use of cigarette tobacco as by episodic use of marihuana. However, if consideration for the moment be confined only to the physical consequences of marihuana (apart from...
...when Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was attacking Congressional witnesses' use of the Fifth Amendment, Griswold was a forceful defender of the constitutional right against self-incrimination...
There may, however, be more disturbing implications in the government's use of mythology during the present war. For by raising the spectre of another Munich, the Administration is trying to divert attention to a foreign problem--Communism--that has really lost much of its relevance to the welfare of this nation in 1967. Unfortunately, most citizens, however shaken by the summer's spate of race riots, are far more emotional over international problems than the United States' domestic tranquility...
...appeal Leary claimed that he should be freed because the use of marijuana gives him "a profound religious experience...
Sadly, the Federal government has failed to soothe tribal hatreds. Many observers feel that some minimal concessions to the Ibos after last year's catastrophic riots would have preserved the Federation. But the federal government lacked the flexibility to use this fleeting opportunity...