Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ironically, the very people who have persistently claimed, without foundation, that marijuana leads to heroin have now set in motion a naive crusade to artificially drive the price of marijuana up in the hope that this will stem...
...apparently hasn't occurred to them that with the price up, the marijuana market is now appealing to the underworld...
...Treasury agents, aircraft and Coast Guard boats that have been swarming on, over and around the 2,500-mile border since September 21 made only 500 arrests and seized just two tons of marijuana by the end of last week. Yet, if the crackdown did temporarily reduce the annual 1,200-ton flow of "grass" from south of the border -presumably because the serious smugglers just sat it out-it also reduced U.S.-Mexican relations to one of the lowest points in years...
...Nixon Administration. Washington's idea was not so much to stop the drug flow; not even light planes teamed with ground radar could spot every airborne dope smuggler. The object was to force Mexico City to do something about the illegal but large-scale cultivation of marijuana and other narcotics throughout the country. To emphasize the point, the U.S. made it clear to Mexico that it was ready to press the drive for at least a month...
...smell like alfalfa." Without a search warrant, the police rummaged in the Edwardses' backyard trash cans and found a few pinches of pot. They forced their way into the house, arrested the couple and proceeded to search the premises until, they claimed later, they found caches of marijuana and LSD. After the defendants were each sentenced to between one and ten years, they were released on bail pending appeal...