Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dreary slums, saw and did whatever she could. In a New Orleans nightclub she saw a beautiful brunette do a striptease, and when the girl was down to her G-string, "the atmosphere was so charged with morality that one might have been in church." She also smoked marijuana in a New York hotel apartment with a group of initiates. One dark woman had an abandoned look and tears in her eyes, and kept saying she was "madly happy." Mlle. de Beauvoir smoked three cigarettes in a row. The taste "was sharp and none too agreeable." Longing for the happiness...
Where There's Smoke. In San Diego, while Vincente Fugueredo stood by loudly protesting, sheriff's deputies investigated smoke pouring from his Cadillac, arrested him after finding 15 Ibs. of marijuana smoldering beneath the hood...
First Things First. In Houston, sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a $10 fine, Marijuana Peddler John Hernandez barely flinched, but asked: "When do I have to pay the fine...
...Teetotaler. In Edinburg, Texas, arrested for possessing ten marijuana cigarettes, Rosendo Ureste, 33, expressed surprise: "Other people get drunk and don't go to jail, and I never drink...
Sportsmanship. In El Paso, Army Cook Perry Carlyle, arrested on a charge of selling 21 Ibs. of marijuana to a Government undercover agent, protested: "Those guys don't play fair...