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...parents and police alike. A New York specialist in psychosomatic medicine, Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker, has now come up with a startling plan for preventing delinquency. It involves nothing less than the mass psychological testing of every American child between the ages of six and eight in order to weed out future criminals...
When they had set out for Mexico, Merilee had been worried they wouldn't find any dope right away so she had scrounged around and gotten together some exorbitantly-priced lids. These she dumped into a saucepan of butter. When heated, the butter separated, the white stuff and the weed went down and the clarified stuff, or ghee, and the essence of the marijuana surfaced. Cooled and solidified, the clear part was scooped into an oil can which came to Mexico cradled in the spare tire. A dab made Merilee and Sam happier until noon and everybody else none...
Obviously, Margolis and Clorfene are pot enthusiasts. Though they point out that the weed's long-term effects are still under hot scientific debate, the only serious dangers they discuss are legal.* But they do not puff the splendors in the grass in the old unwary Leary style. They state categorically, for instance, that "there is no such thing as a profound revelation while stoned." The book is not intended as a polemic; it is merely a report that, in addition to discussing the subjective feelings of being high, includes such how-to items as rolling a marijuana cigarette...
...scandal has been expansive enough to leave room for all kinds of crusades. Senator Thomas Dodd even smuggled in a swipe at the Demon Weed. Must be that Vietnam marijuana, he sagely reasoned, that turned American soldiers, traditionally "well-mannered, loyal, kind to a fault," into maniacs. "Heaven knows," he went on, "we've seen the violence wrought by marijuana here at home." If you've seen photos of Lt. William R. Calley, awaiting trial for the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians, you can picture the type of salivating addict that Dodd is talking about...
...actually making a revolution. You had all sorts of people in the movement for all sorts of crazy reasons. Very few said, I'm in this for good. I'm going to risk my life making revolution. We've come to the point where it's necessary to weed out those who really don't want a revolution...