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Marijuana and other pop drugs come from many other sources, not the least the U.S. itself. U.S. Cannabis?if not as choice as the Mexican variety???grows wild throughout the Midwest. In Nebraska alone last week, an estimated 115,000 acres of it were nearly ready for harvesting?by any would-be pot-gatherers who could sneak by the police. Yet despite the plenitude of "Tennessee blue" and "Bethesda gold," rising demand for pot in the U.S. has recently been a major factor in producing a marijuana famine in many U.S. cities. Many authorities say that the dearth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Pop Drugs: The High as a Way of Life | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...going to tell you now a story which is the explanation of that anti-Socialist campaign which I have conducted in my own country for nearly three years, singlehanded, since the War. . . ." And he reported how Historian-Novelist H. G. Wells?whose Socialism is largely of the parlor variety???had (sarcastically, ironically) said to him, when Frankau had promised the destruction of the German Empire: "Well, Frankau, I hope you break the British Empire too." (While Frankau fought in Flanders the sedentary Wells had merely stayed at home writing Mr. Britling Sees It Through and other literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Frankau at Large | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...VARIETY???R chard Connell?Mint on, Balch ($2.00). In the columns of every U. S. newspaper, occupying the odd inch at the root of a divorce, or a box, maybe, between finance and mayhem, are items about nameless people who have become news because some extravagance in the comedy of their lives has made them pathetic or some vagary in their afflictions has made them funny. Richard Connell, with one snip of the shears, two strokes of the fountain pen, can transform such items into tales that delight the readers of The Saturday Evening Post, and may afterwards be collected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saga in Sand | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

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