Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ronald McDonald's face, a 19-year-old employee of the burger joint was arrested today for selling marijuana in Happy Meals. Mence Powell, who manned the restaurant's drive-through window, was taken into custody after selling undercover officers a burger, fries, soda and a side of weed on five separate occasions. Police said Powell pulled the scam by arranging deals in advance. After an order was placed, customers would then head to the drive-through window to complete the transaction. "I don't know how he could think that he could do this and continue to get away...
...poisons. Then comes the afternoon that is set aside for atonement on the subject of marijuana. Now the chastened air gives way to argument. The house divides along generational lines. The oldest of the sinners (mostly age 50 or older) nod agreement with the official message: Yes, indeed--devil weed. The baby boomers, however, with their rich pharmaceutical histories, begin to snigger and squirm. "Give me a break!" rings out in the hall. The youngest members of the congregation (some in their teens) sit in bewilderment, trying to decide whether to support the geezers or the boomers...
...case against marijuana remains relatively undramatic. It is true that the new generation of weed is stronger than what the boomers remember; that potency means it takes fewer puffs to get high, thus cutting down on damage to the respiratory system, for example. On the other hand, stronger pot and higher kids lead to more reckless driving and car accidents. It is true that smoking pot is less harmful than heavy drinking and does not threaten one's life, as do addictions to harder drugs. Proselytical pot smokers love to point out that a fatal overdose would require...
...marijuana heavily from age 16 to 26, then stopped. The way you process life events emotionally after that may be more like a 16-year-old." Could it be that the famous reluctance of the baby boomer to imagine himself as an adult has something to do with the weed he smoked when young...
Eric NelsonNot bad. For a Crimson editor, anyway. But where's Grimmelmann? And Gramm and Rudman? David Goodman Open the door, get on the floor. Everybody walk the dinosaur. Ben Kaplan You say your high school mascot was a guy out back smoking weed? Ben, do you know that little boy? Lamelle Rawlins She's die hard. With a vengeance. She's pushing her dictionary and reading her agenda. Or was it the other way around. Joseph "Freeman" Cleemann We love this guy. It's time to mobilize the troops. William Pyonteck No, no,I'm the complete outsider...