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Because of its non-habit-forming character, doctors have recently been experimenting with the drug as an aid in curing opium addiction. In the world of hot jazz, marijuana's relatively benign effects are attested by long experience. Lushes often die young from cirrhosis of the liver or apoplexy, often spend their final days in delirium tremens. But vipers frequently live on to enjoy old age. In You Rascal You, a viper addresses an imaginary lush : "I'll be standing on the corner high when they bring your body...
Died. William C. Aberhart, 64, Alberta's Social Credit Premier; of a liver ailment; in Vancouver, B.C. Ex-schoolteacher, fundamentalist radiorator, moonfaced "Bible Bill" Aberhart preached a new millennium, was elected to produce it in depression-ridden 1935. His version of Clifford Hugh Douglas' theories tried to combine funny money, state control of credit, a feeble application of the Keynes public-works principles, handouts à la Townsend. The attempt was foredoomed by Alberta's economic dependence, the hostility of courts and capital. One of the few non-Marxian reformers taken at his word and told...
...winter in captivity. For 40 years they had been fed a diet which included Norwegian shrimp. The war forced substitution of New Orleans shrimp. This spring the long-stemmed birds emerged from winter quarters ruddier than ever. Their complete diet: a mixture of chopped green 'peppers, cod liver oil, fresh New Orleans shrimp, grated raw carrots, dried Mexican flies, dog biscuit, rice and brewer's yeast...
...Except for vitamins A and D, which are not manufactured chemically, are sold only as concentrates from fish-liver oils. * The five: biotin, choline, inositol, para-amino-benzoic acid, folic acid...
...vitamins have been identified chemically,* but no one knows how many more there may be, or what they do. For the vitamins not yet identified, concentrates are made from a list of weird items reminiscent of a Chinese pharmacopoeia: yeast, wheat germ, defatted milk, rice polishings, grass juice and liver extract...