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Lori grew up in a house with five sets of encyclopedias. She was an A student into her sophomore year in high school, thought she would go to college, maybe become a teacher, until she fell in with a fast crowd, smoked a lot of pot and let her grades fall. But she was always a hard worker. At 13 she lied about her age to get her first job, at the snack bar of the local swimming pool. After high school she worked as a bookkeeper at a car-parts store, but she was fired, she says, because...
What fascinates me about Graffix is that while (by my best guess) it stays in business by selling its bongs to pot smokers, it is able to skirt drug paraphernalia laws by maintaining that the glass tubes are tobacco delivery systems. Caught in a vice between the pressures of the market and those of the law, Graffix faces some very sticky questions: How should it respond to the fact that it helps customers get high? Should it push for legalization? Might political activism provoke a backlash that drives it out of business...
...Saturday afternoon I stroll over to the Pit, looking for a probable pot smoker, but the brisk weather has sent the alternateens indoors. I circle the area twice and suddenly, I spot one. He's a high-schooler right out of an Urban Outfitters catalog. Sitting on a skateboard and smoking a cigarette, he has the shrewd look of a punk-rock star plastered across his face. His brown hair, shaved on the sides and the back, has enough red streaks in it to piss off any parent...
...making it harder to get and more risky to possess. Clinton, on the other hand, sounds like he's going to do his damnedest to take cigarettes out of the hands of kids. I tell Dave people like him need to pick their poison, so to speak. It's pot or cigarettes, Dole or Clinton...
...never heard of anyone dying of a marijuana overdose. I did, however, in college hear of people going into brain-damaging comas from alcohol. The alcohol made you decorate the sidewalks and wake up with a headache. Pot merely gave you the munchies, guaranteeing employment for the pizza business. Legalize it, tax it and that will help to lower the deficit. PETE HANCE Fogelsville, Pennsylvania...