Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rough Reefer. In Boston, police hauled Booker K. Miller into court on a charge of peddling marijuana cigarets, dismissed his case when a chemist's report showed that the cigarets consisted entirely of catnip...
Prize Crop. In Los Angeles, County Park Superintendent J. R. Wimmer proudly pointed out the luxuriant ornamental plants around the County Agricultural Building. Commented visiting Horticulturist A. J. Barton: "That's a fine crop of marijuana, my friend...
...From the beginning," he writes, "the boys and some of the girls . . . decided they were going to run things as they pleased." Sometimes "when told not to roam the aisles, to quit talking, smoking, etc., they would sneer or spit in your face." Plenty of the young folks smoked marijuana. In the Mission's first three months, Manager Watson lost three customers by sudden death. The Mission, Mr. Watson observes, "is not a class movie...
...problem than with the cure. The film shows the lack of emotional security in homes robbed of their parents by war plants and rocked by the immeasurable restiveness created by war itself. Babies wake screaming in siren-haunted blackouts. Boys just below draft age go on alcohol, marijuana and obscene-book jags, shrug off the discipline of parents who earn no more than they do. Mothers find it next to impossible to advise teen-age daughters who, erotically, are almost as experienced as Mother...
Canned Canaries. In Colorado Springs, Sheriff Sam Deal held a man for U.S. narcotics authorities despite the prisoner's insistence that he grew marijuana just to provide seed for his canaries, who sang better...