Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They bagged six men and a woman, and half a million dollars' worth of raw opium, heroin, morphine, cocaine and marijuana, most of it destined for the U.S. Some of the dope was foreign-made, apparently lifted from medical stocks sent by other countries as friendly help in 1949 when an earthquake hit Ecuador. But much of it came from the poppy fields which flourish under the snow-capped Andean volcanoes close to Quito. Impressed by White's raids, Minister of Government Camillo Ponce Enriquez last week promised to ask the next Congress for laws prohibiting poppy-growing...
...Hashish (from the Arabic word for dried herb), a narcotic made from the resin of female flowers of Indian hemp, is the Eastern version of marijuana. It was once the favorite stimulant of the Assassins (more properly Hashish-ins), a secret society of Shiite fanatics founded in the 11th century, whose drastic political actions led to the gradual adoption of their name as a synonym for killer...
...committee also upbraided the publishers of pocket books for putting out such "obscene" books as Marijuana Girl (Chapter II: how to "sniff the stuff"), Virgie Goodbye, Gin Wedding, Love-Hungry Doctor, Private Life of a Street Girl, She Made It Pay. Pocket-size reprints, the committee said, "originally started out as cheap reprints of standard works, have largely degenerated into a medium for the dissemination of artful appeals to sensuality, immorality, filth, perversion and degeneracy...
...Advertised. In Atlantic City, Cornelius McGee was fined $100 for fraud after he was caught selling catnip cigarettes as marijuana...
...fact was, said Billy, that "it was only after the case got into the newspapers and [Eleanor] filed 150 pages of affidavits charging me with everything from smuggling Chinamen to raising marijuana on my window sill that I decided to take a look at the pretty pot that was calling the kettle black ... I refuse to get bitter about [Eleanor], and I never suspected any extracurricular activity on the part of my wife. But her behavior was enough to make a strong man weep. My marriage ended seven years ago." (He was locked out of their house in October.) Since...