Word: weeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stories of how defendants had been wronged by the marijuana laws, and for years the judges had summarily whisked the whining wrongdoers off to penitentiaries. But this case was different. In this instance the defendant was released because he truly did have a special reason for smoking the forbidden weed--he needed it to treat his worsening case of glaucoma...
...until the 1920s and 1930s that this country, under intense pressure from the newly-created Federal Bureau of Narcotics--an agency in search of a mission--witnessed the crusade to banish the killer weed from American society, a society in which recreational use of marijuana was steadily becoming more popular. Contemporary newspapers frequently ran articles of purported instances where one marijuana cigarette had led previously respectable citizens to commit crimes of violence or had sent them into fits of insanity. The stories, of course, were told in lurid detail and did much to boost sales. These imaginative stories, combined with...
...marijuana's medicinal uses are not limited to glaucoma. One of the most promising uses of the weed is the role it can play in soothing the often-severe side effects of chemotherapy for cancer patients. These side effects--vomiting, nausea, and loss of appetite--are sometimes so unbearable as to drive patients to less effective methods of treatment. Marijuana is very effective in controlling vomiting and nausea and in stimulating appetite, and it is thought that if doctors were allowed to prescribe the drug, it would be far more reliable than drugs currently available...
...much too quickly in the '60s and must pull back now, the white flight to suburbia, all fit together into one unhappy picture. Understanding Brooklyn, where the battleground is big, the players easy to spot and the conflict starting early, helps one to understand how the foul weed of neoconservatism flourishes in soil once overgrown with liberal begonias...
...like to see things stay the same. Most thinking people realize that economic development is necessary?you have to have a job to live. But we want change to come in a way that preserves the natural flavor, not necessarily every blade of grass or every weed, but the natural flavor. There are those who argue, 'Now that we're here, let's close the door. Put up a fence, keep the rest out?all those other guys.' But we just can't do that...