In 1907 a federal court ruled that American Tobacco had a monopoly on licorice, a flavoring, and that the company was guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act
Thats a key distinction between what was happening then and people not liking the smell of weed now. To Kiechle, its strange that theres a focus on weed smoke when there are other things that people are regularly inhaling. After all, diesel fumes, car exhaust and industrial pollution are far more prevalent and dangerous than a passing haze of Sour Apple or Pineapple Express
Discuss Peer Pressure: Talk about the influence of friends and peer pressure
"Pot" became widely used in the 40s and 50s, possibly traced to the Spanish "potiguaya." By the 1960s counterculture movement, cannabis had dozens of nicknames each reflecting the growing, if still underground, community of users pushing back against prohibition stigma
The Fagerstrm Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) is typically administered as a structured questionnaire
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