it all goes up in smoke
Part of a larger issue on Marijuana
in Life magazine
Oct 31, 1969. 25-35
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At many parties, casual marijuana smoking simply replaces social drinking. In suburban Boston (upper right) a group of middle-aged business and professional people light up after dinner. In New Orleans (above) the occasion is a garden pot party on Sunday afternoon.
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Operation Intecept, the U.S. Customs crack-down on smuggling through popular Mexican border points, outraged thousands of tourists and yeilded little marijuana. Now the pressure has shifted to open stretches of the border where the big hauls are made. [On the left] a 500 poound cache of confiscated marijuana is removed from a warehouse-like storage vault in San Diego, then burned in the raging furnace (right), one kil-brick at a time.
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