Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kids we're getting here all follow roughly the same pattern. They aren't wild-eyed ogres. They don't have sexual orgies (maybe marijuana jazzes them up, but heroin takes the sexual drive away, and 99% of our cases are going to be heroin addicts). Their I.Q.s put them in the dull-normal to normal class. Mostly they're quiet-spoken, reclusive children who are passive actors in the drama of life. We want to give these kids a feeling of human dignity that they never had before. We probably can't make them...
When the cops burst into a Hollywood house where blonde, 18-year-old Marti Robertson and a 21-year-old boy friend were smoking marijuana last week, Marti didn't argue with them. "I'm really turned on, man," she cried. "I'm higher than a giraffe's toupee. I started blasting when I was 13." Her two dogs, she confided, like marijuana too. "When the pups were two months old, I'd blow weed smoke in a paper bag and put it over their heads. I did the same for the canary. Sing...
...Really Wails in Sweden. Marijuana, she felt, was neither habit forming nor harmful. But people insisted on acting as though it were bad like getting "lushed" (drunk), and all the squares put you down strong (turned on you). "Those dope stories-all about how you go around killing old ladies when you smoke a pot. It's a real drag. Actually, you just sit around and listen to music. I love Bach. Mozart? No comment. Mendelssohn? How square can you get? I want it modern. I want to go to Sweden where it really wails...
...smoke marijuana? "Because it kicks. It's just like being a lush only you don't have a hangover and you're not sloppy and getting sick and maybe going out and driving a car and killing someone like a lush. And it's cheaper than Scotch. Two or three people can get high on one joint [marijuana cigarette]. Of course, you can take bennies [Benzedrine] or dexies [Dexedrine], but they make me too nervous. I'm a hog. I don't just take one. I take three or four. You can get hooked...
...Know How It Is." Soon, Amy was a marijuana regular. Usually, boys bought the smokes for her, but every now & then she conned her accountant father or telephone-operator mother out of $10, and bought a few dozen of her own. "I guess I lied all the time," she say's. "I played it cool at home; I was real quiet and cagey. I didn't act odd, and they never thought anything was up; they never got hip . . . [I] used to be proud of lying...