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After last year's revelation that Judge Douglas Ginsburg, President Reagan's brief nominee to the Supreme Court, had smoked marijuana, there was a parade of politicians confessing that they too had "experimented with" the evil weed. They all insisted that this was a youthful indiscretion that they deeply regretted, and they all were awarded little stars for courage and frankness. But where is the politician with the true courage to admit that he enjoyed smoking dope and does not especially regret...
...petroleum production at refineries. Minnesota's Honeywell will equip Soviet fertilizer plants with high-tech manufacturing equipment. Occidental Petroleum will build two factories to supply plastics for food packaging, vinyl floors and other uses. Chevron is * discussing an oil-exploration venture, while Monsanto is negotiating joint production of a weed-killing herbicide...
More recently Jackson called Zionism a "poisonous weed". In 1984, he labelled New York "hymietown", and pledged support for Louis Farrakhan, who calls Judaism a "gutter religion". No other white candidate could have gotten away with such words and actions and remained in the race. Are these the views the American people want in the presidency...
...food writer in England, tells us, "In the last 20 years I have shared the fortunes of a stone carver . . . Marble determined where, how and among whom we lived; always in primitive conditions." Thus did they feast and fast in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia. Honey from a Weed (Harper & Row; 374 pages; $25) is a rich and idiosyncratic ramble through those festivals and harvests, and it makes perhaps the most enticing book of the year. There are detailed recipes for such local delicacies as grapes in syrup from Greece and an Italian fried chicken in walnut sauce. There...
...dudes, welcome and, like, everybody help yourself to some heinous devil-weed," said Nancy, toking hard from a gold plated roach-clip...