Part of the Problem A folded matchbook cover helps a New York girl smoke her marijuana cigarette down to the end, during a quiet Saturday afternoon on the city's fashionable upper East Side. Alcohol and marijuana -- two different drugs, both intoxicants, mind relievers. One is legal and one is not. Prohibition on one didn't work. Prohibition on the other is not working either. But not everyone believes that it is a good excuse to legalize it.
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Part of the Problem A folded matchbook cover helps a New York girl smoke her marijuana cigarette down to the end, during a quiet Saturday afternoon on the city's fashionable upper East Side. Alcohol and marijuana -- two different drugs, both intoxicants, mind relievers. One is legal and one is not. Prohibition on one didn't work. Prohibition on the other is not working either. But not everyone believes that it is a good excuse to legalize it.

Associated Press · [ca. April 1971]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

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