Got this for Frank for xmas!! Jah man!

(Sept/Oct 1979) Harvest - Canada's Up-Front Head Magazine

1st edition, apparently this publication started as a newsletter called "Prairie Weed".

(1972) Consumers Union Report - Licit and Illicit Drugs

Chapter 53 - Marijuana in the Old World
Chapter 54 - Marijuana in the New World
Chapter 55 - Marijuana and Alcohol Prohibition
Chapter 56 - Marijuana is outlawed
Chapter 57 - America discovers marijuana
Chapter 58 - Can marijuana replace alcohol?
Chapter 59 - The 1969 marijuana shortage and "Operation Intercept"
Chapter 60 - The Le Dain Commission Report has a decent list of reports and books right at the beginning

NORML - In the Beginning Part I - Early 70's

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws enters its fifth decade of representing responsible cannabis consumers. To mark the occasion we look back on the past forty years with those who lived it. In this first installment, NORML founder Keith Stroup talks about the experiences that lead him to founding the organization, including inspiration from the likes of Ralph Nader and Fmr. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

NORML@40: Playboy and the $5,000 Decision (Part II)

www.norml.org - The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws enters its fifth decade of representing responsible cannabis consumers. To mark the occasion we look back on the past forty years with those who lived it. In this second installment, NORML founder Keith Stroup discusses how he came in touch with Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Foundation to provide early funding for NORML.

NORML@40: Marijuana Advocates and the Shafer Commission (Part III)

www.norml.org - The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws enters its fifth decade of representing responsible cannabis consumers. To mark the occasion we look back on the past forty years with those who lived it. In this second installment, NORML founder Keith Stroup reflects on NORML's early mission, dealing with the Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse.

kAK: I love this series from NORML, very interesting to watch.

(1976) California Moscone Act: Possession goes from Felony to Misdemeanor

The following graph (Source: MJSPRD) shows at a-glance the effect of the Moscone Act on marijuana arrests. Felony marijuana arrests fell by about 80,000, from nearly 100,000 in 1974 to less than 20,000 in 1976. Misdemeanor marijuana arrests were not recorded between 1972 and 1977, but leaped tenfold from about 3,500 in 1972 to 35,424 in 1978. By 1984, total marijuana arrests were leveling off at below 64,000 a year, so the cumulative effect of the Moscone Act was to reduce total marijuana arrests by at least 36,000 a year. Source



(1988) Savings in California Marijuana Law Enforcement Costs Attributable to the Moscone Act of 1976 — A Summary Link

The State of California has saved a minimum of one billion dollars since 1976 as a result of making possession of an ounce or less of marijuana a citable misdemeanor instead of a felony. The present study considered savings from 1976 through 1985 in four major areas: arrest costs, court costs, prison costs and parole costs. Together they amounted to a total savings of $958 million, or nearly $100 million per year (see Table III). When these savings are compared with the $100 million a year being spent on marijuana law enforcement in 1971 and 1972 (California Senate Select Committee 1974: 118) and the average of $157.6 million spent in 1974 and 1975 (see Table II), it is evident that the Moscone Act has been quite successful in achieving two of its main objectives: (1) reducing law enforcement expenditures related to possession of small amounts of marijuana to a minimum; and (2) relieving an overwhelming burden on the state judicial system.

Dame Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was an English-born American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age, and one of the most famous film stars in the world. Taylor was recognized not only as a talented and award-winning actress, but also for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes.

National Velvet (1944) was Taylor's first success, and she starred in Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960), played the title role in Cleopatra (1963), and married her co-star Richard Burton. Source

Her Marijuana Use and Associations

She is remembered for her addictions to alcohol and painkillers, and according to one biographer, tried smoking pot to battle the booze.

According to Ellis Amburn's 2000 book, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: The Obsessions, Passions, and Courage of Elizabeth Taylor Liz' experimentation with marijuana began in mid-1973, when she partied with Peter Lawford and his son Christopher, hitting hot spots like Candy Store in Beverly Hills. Peter's friend Arthur Natoli recalled, "[Lawford] and Elizabeth used to turn on together. They were high on pot a lot. I don't know if he supplied her." (p. 222)

Taylor was 19 when she was cast in A Day in the Sun opposite Montgomery Clift, and she had a lifelong devotion to Clift, who smoked marijuana (as did James Dean). According to Amburn, "Elizabeth sometimes ditched [second husband Michael] Wilding to slip off to Oscar Levant's Beverly Hills house with Monty, where the pianist serenaded them with Gershwin tunes as they whiled away afternoons and early evenings."
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Her fourth husband Eddie Fisher was revealed to be a pot smoker by his daughter Carrie in her 2008 book Wishful Drinking. In his 2008 autobiography, Tony Curtis says marijuana was very popular in Hollywood around the time of his 1971 bust for carrying pot through Heathrow airport.Source

(1978) A Wild and Crazy Guy

A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978) was an album by American comedian Steve Martin. It reached number two on a Billboard's Pop Albums Chart. The album was eventually certified double platinum.

It contains the hit novelty single "King Tut", which Martin also performed on Saturday Night Live. It also has Martin revealing his 'real' name (due to the myth that his real name was not "Steve Martin"), which he admits is the sound of him flipping his lips.

This album won the Grammy Award in 1979 for Best Comedy Album.Source

Cannabis Content

The album contains the following Joke:

"I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk! Never at dusk, I would never do that."Source