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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover: Photo composite by Robert S. Crandall. The story itself, written by Christopher Cory, researched by Madeleine Berry and edited by Michael Demarest, deals with one of the most delicate and complex issues in American life today: the fast-growing subculture of drugs. Thus it was important for TIME to examine the phenomenon in the BEHAVIOR section...
...less tangible but far more profound crisis is the lack of a commanding dramatist with a compelling vision. Half of today's plays seem to be written in some dusty attic of the past and the other half in some apocalyptic junkyard of the future. The shock fads of homosexual, lesbian and sado-masochistic themes, the vogue of nudity and participatory theater may well continue, but they cannot mask the lack of substance. They are frames without pictures, devices without a purposeful direction. This is a theater that is severely pinched for both means and ends, but at least...
...idea of easy euphoria has been underscored as the variety and use of legitimate pills have proliferated. One-quarter to one-third of all the medical prescriptions now written in the U.S. is tor a mood-altering pep pill or tranquilizer; newspaper, magazine and television ads hammer away at the theme that relief is just a swallow away for any condition, from nervous tension to drowsiness. As Sociologists William Simon and John H. Gagnon write: "Modern medicine has made drugs highly legitimate, something to be taken casually and not only during moments of acute and certified stress. Our children...
...talk to the cat you took acid with about anything that comes into your mind. Once a big Day-Glo ribbon materialized and hovered three or four inches above the ground. It was about 7 ft. long and 2 ft. thick. Everything that I was going to say was written on that ribbon in pink letters before I was going to say it, so I just read the ribbon to talk. Acid has taught me a new way. You have to dig anything that happens to you, even if it's not what you wanted. And it taught...
...does marijuana affect a normal, successful adult? The following account was written for TIME by a married 29-year-old Ivy League college graduate. He is levelheaded and ambitious, and works a taxing 50-hour week at a responsible job. He began turning on eight months ago, now uses marijuana twice a week on the average. He is not trying to persuade anyone else to follow his example...