Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report is not exactly an endorsement of toking to cure what ails you. But it does support further research into the medical benefits of marijuana. The panel reviewed reports that smoking weed can control nausea for some cancer patients, help prevent weight loss among AIDS patients and help relieve eye pressure in people suffering from glaucoma ? ground already covered by experts out West. Widespread legalization won't happen any time soon, but what this could mean is a ceasefire...
...payments starting at $10 billion and rising eventually to $15 billion, in perpetuity, will be used to compensate states for health-care costs related to treating smokers, pay individuals who successfully press suit, finance health research and promote education programs aimed at deterring youths from taking up the evil weed. To that end, Joe Camel will soon become a has-been and the Marlboro Man will be put out to pasture, because the industry also agreed to sweeping reforms that proscribe the use of human or cartoon forms in advertising. Billboards, stadium signs, T-shirt giveaways and other promotional freebies...
...speak (to declare an interest) as a smoker--a sometime smoker, to be sure, an on-again, off-again smoker, but one who has forever pledged his heart to the weed against the seemingly indomitable forces arrayed against it. And from where I sit, I see a carnival of dissembling and bad faith...
Shelat said he believes the program does not weed out all cheaters and errs in favor of students...
After all, in many people's minds, however, gay people just are inferior. And these people might want to use scientific findings to "cure" us, to weed us out, or even to prevent us from being born...