Word: weede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urchins on the back for having the grand old guts to get off the treadmill, to stand up against hypocrisy and immortality. And it is all very strange to see that at the root of the civil disobedience, and at the root of the test cases, is a lousy weed...
Even the most black-thumbed city slicker could hardly fail to grow a bumper harvest of marijuana. The hal lucinogenic weed - which grows wild throughout America in every kind of soil - requires no plowing, fertilizing, harrowing, mulching, weeding, spraying or watering. To raise a crop of dreams, all the would-be "grass" farmer need do is scatter seed some time in the spring, then go off to a love-in for 60 to 80 days. When the female Cannabis sativa bears its resinous flowers, the farmer simply plucks the plant and dries the top portion in the sun, an oven...
...Service published a 200-page follow-up to the 1964 Surgeon General's report. Based on a review of more than 2,000 research studies made in the past three years, the report repeats that cigarette tars can cause lung cancer; it depressingly documents further evidence that the weed can bring on peptic ulcers, aortic aneurysm, cancer of the larynx, mouth, pharynx, esophagus and bladder. A two-pack-a-day smoker aged 55 to 64, says the report, has 34 times more chance of dying of lung cancer than a nonsmoker. But an equally grave danger may be coronary...
Usually marijuana produces a feeling of euphoria and exaltation; subjective judgments of time, distance, vision and hearing are prolonged. It can also cause paranoid episodes. According to medical experts, the pungent smelling weed does not result in physical dependence, and once the user learns the number of puffs necessary to reach his "high," he rarely takes more. Some medical authorities and federal officials believe that the drug will eventually be legalized. Hippies, who pass a joint like a peace pipe, quote Genesis I-"Let the earth bring forth grass"-as justification for its use. And, invariably, they argue that marijuana...
...Syria, Israel is now responsible for the welfare of 1,330,000 hostile Arabs, more than a million of whom are impoverished refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. Not only must those Arabs be fed and housed, Israel's small army must somehow police them and weed out saboteurs-a task immensely complicated by the fact that perhaps one-third of Egypt's estimated 150,000-man army in the Sinai seems to have melted away into the Arab communities of the peninsula. There are also the restive Gaza refugees, who emerged as a commando army during...