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...lusher, worldlier sound. The album, like the diary of a Hoosier who went to the big city and returned tougher and wiser, is tempered by the neon images and jukebox sounds of urban America, melding straight-ahead electric-guitar licks with the staccato rhythms of the modern melting pot...
Acid, more properly 9-d-Iysergic acid, is dropped by 2.8 million Americans every year. This pales in comparison to the 40 million estimated pot smokers and the 25 million citizens that have used cocaine. LSD has no known adverse effects, except in cases of extremely heavy use--and then the ramifications are usually psychological, not physical. In the 30 years since its introduction to the American drug world, there has never been a reported overdose due to acid...
...Reap, the city next to the ruins, and the group's guide refused to go near the place. The Mexicans were forced to content themselves with Phnom Penh -- a city whose attractions include the Tuol Sleng Museum, a high school used as a torture chamber and prison during Pol Pot's reign. Tourists who do make it to Angkor Wat are repeatedly reminded to stay on the paths; hundreds of Khmer Rouge land mines are buried around the temples. It is also advisable to give the Kalashnikov-toting militia men "guarding" the complex a dollar or two for their services...
Mike got caught last April after running into a friend who had some pot in the school parking lot. "We smoked a lot," says Mike, who had his pistol in the right-hand pocket of his jacket along with two clips, one full and the other empty. As he entered the school, a rubbery smile on his face, a security guard stopped him and took him to the principal's office. "They knew I was high, and I was being a dick," he says. "They told me to empty my pockets, and I was like, man, everything...
Marijuana, usually the first illegal drug sampled by eventual hard-core abusers, is also back in vogue. Of the 11.4 million Americans who admitted to using drugs within a month of the 1992 Household Survey, 55% referred solely to pot; an additional 19% abused marijuana in combination with other drugs. "Cannabis is the drug that teaches our kids what other drugs are all about," says Charlie Stowell, the DEA's cannabis coordinator in California. He says today's marijuana is considerably more potent and expensive than the pot of the '60s because the amount of THC -- the ingredient that provides...