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Marihuana, as everyone should know by now, is a crude preparation of the leaves, stems, and flowering tops of the female hemp plant--Cannabis sativa. Cannabis (accented on the first syllable, like "Canada") is a common roadside weed, bound to be growing on some vacant lot within a mile of your home. The quality of a Cannabis product depends upon its resin content; compared to hashish (the pure, dried resin) and ganja (flowering tops only of specially cultivated plants)--neither available in this part of the world--marihuana is a sort of cubscout variety of hemp. Yet even with...
...seems astonishing that marihuana was virtually unknown in this country before the 1930's. In a short time it spread north to urban centers where it became popular among jazz musicians, homosexuals, and criminals. Then a lurid press campaign against the "weed of madness" roused the public to indignation over murders, rapes, infanticides, and all manner of heinous crimes supposedly committed under its influence. The most significant outcome of the resulting hysteria over the Marihuana Menace was the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, which empowered the Treasure Department and its Bureau of Narcotics to control traffic in Cannabis...
...rejected because of low grades in Natural Sciences and the like--which have nothing to do with their fitness for honors tutorial. The present system allows the Department to admit al those who are interested and qualified, regardless of grades in other courses, and to allow tutors to weed out those who are unable or unwilling to do the work...
Widespread use of marijuana would undoubtedly harm the liquor business, Leary contended, if the wild cheap weed were made readily available to the public...
...Small. Exports are falling while imports rise, and productivity gains by Austrian labor have slowed. Many experts feel that the economy is headed for slow stagnation. Professor Franz Nemschak, head of Vienna's Institute for Economic Research, warned last week that "Austria will surely go downhill unless we weed out the weaknesses in our economy...