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President Richard Nixon and Mexico's President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz shake hands at a ceremony on the Mexico side of the Rio Grande River after dedicating the Amistad Dam, in background. September 8, 1969 (less than two weeks before the start of Operation Intercept)


Dicks First Operation

Two months after Nixon took office as President, he decided to be true to his name. As one of his first moves as President he created 'the Special Presidential Task Force Relating to Narcotics, Marihuana and Dangerous Drugs'.

The special task force was formed to back Nixon's campaign promise to "move against the source of drugs."


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U.S. Customs agents track the nationwide marijuana market during Operation Intercept, 1969


Representatives from ten different federal agencies meet in closed door sessions for eight weeks assessing "the dangers of marihuana, the flow of drugs over the Mexican border, and strategies to control drug smuggling and marihuana cultivation".


What did the task force of Dicks find?

Mexico was "largely responsible for the marihuana and drug abuse problem"...

There actions would forever change a police situation into a military war on drugs...

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A police officer is photographed holding a handgun at a man accused of transporting marijuana in the back of his car outside San Antonio, Texas during Operation Intercept


Dicks solutions to the task force findings?

'Operation Intercept'

"a concerted frontal attack on the illegal importation into and subsequent illegal sale and use of marihuana, narcotics and dangerous drugs in the United States."


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The man was found carrying bags of marijuana in the trunk of his car during Operation Intercept, 1969


What this meant was nearly a complete shutdown of the border with Mexico, while agents searched every inch of space...

In a memorandum the task force took it a step further, recommending that the Mexican government "be forced into a program of defoliation of the marihuana plants."

This new stance would force a Foreign government to alter cultural policy through military action upon its own people...


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Lumped bags of marijuana are seen on a table in the federal offices with the operation's end result collecting 3,202 pounds or 160lbs per day during Operation Intercept, 1969


Jefferson Airplane echoed cultural sentiment by writing the song Mexico about Operation Intercept. The song was quickly banned by many stations nationwide...


Mexico by Jefferson Airplane


Owsley and Charlie, twins of the trade,
Come to the Poet's Room
Talking about the problems of the leaf,
And yes, it'll be back soon

There used to be tons of gold and green
Comin' up here from Mexico
A donde esta la planta, mi amigo, del sol?
[The translation is: "Where is the plant, my friend, of the sun."]

But Mexico is under the thumb
Of a man we call Richard
And he's come to call himself king
But he's a small-headed man
And he doesn't know a thing
About how to deal for you

How to deal for you
There are millions of you now
I mean it's not as if you were alone
There are brothers everywhere
Just waiting for a toke on that gold
And God knows how far it can go

But thanks Uncle Charlie
For your Mexican smoke
You're a legend Owsley
For your righteous dope

There were a half a million people on the lawn
And we sang to the faces in the dawn
How long must that damn race
Wait for the jailer's time to end?
How long must the Panther race
Wait for the iron bars to bend?
And no no no no no nobody waits
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'Dicks First Operation' continued...


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A storage vault in San Deigo, California seen packed with boxes of seized marijuana seized during Operation Intercept, 1969


The U.S. Customs Service supplied the following price and supply estimates based on information obtained during Operation Intercept.

Los Angeles, California -
Prices- $125-150 per kilogram rose as high as $150-175 per kilogram and $60-100 per pound. (Depending upon quality)

Supply - Available

El Paso, Texas
Price - $10 per lid (Approximately I ounce)

Supply - Readily available

Houston, Texas
Price - $1 per cigarette, $25 per lid, $120-125 per pound

Supply - Not readily available

Denver, Colorado
Price - $25 per can(Approximately 2-21/2 ounces)

Supply - Scarce

Chicago, Illinois
Price - $50-200 a kilo (Poor quality), $200 per pound (Mexican manicured), $100 per pound (Domestic)

Supply - Available, but sold "short" i.e. I pound equals 12 ounces

New York, New York
Price - $2 per cigarette, $10 per plastic bag (Approximately 1/2 - 1 ounce)

Supply - Not readily available


While the supply of cannabis was affected by Operation Intercept, hard drug use and supply including heroin drastically increased domestically as a result...


"The famine itself is real enough. It fell upon the country late last spring, introducing a season of privation worse than the oldest smokers can recall.... Only marijuana, the mildest and least menacing, has disappeared from the streets even in southern California."

-Life magazine, summing up operation intercept in 1969


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After the blocks of marijuana are counted for their federal records, two federal agents are seen steadily throwing them into the flames of a furnace during Operation Intercept 1969

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billycw

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Before athletes were our hero's...


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John Player & Sons: useful plants and fruits - Tobacco Trading Cards, 1904
 

billycw

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"I dont know what hes on, but its a lot more powerful than that stuff from Latin America"


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People look up at the sky at Reagan flying off with a drug bag and behind him leaving a smoke trail. The St. Louis Post, 9-14-1986
 

billycw

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"Just Say No" to drugs rally...


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About 20,00 elementary and junior high school students from throughout the county, crowd into the east side of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to cheer their favorite entertainers and athletes and scream that they will "Just Say No" to drugs. On a stage decorated with colorful banners made by the students at each of the schools represented, celebrities such as Rams running back Eric Dickerson, actor Curtis Baldwin and singer-actor Morris Day, participated in the 90-minute show hosted by KCBS sportscaster Jim Hill. Co-hosting the show were teenage stars Drew Barrymore of the movie "E.T." and C.B. Barnes of the TV series "Starman." Photo dated: May 15, 1987
 

billycw

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"Let someone say of a doctor that he really knows his physiology or anatomy, that he is dynamic-these are not real compliments, but if you say that he is an observer, a person who knows how to see, this is perhaps the greatest compliment one can make."

- Jean-Martin Charcot in a lecture on Feb 28, 1888



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Sketch of Jean-Martin Charcot by one of his students


Godfathers of the Hashischins

Arriving back in Paris from accompanying a wealthy patient to Syria in the early 1850's, Dr. Jacques-Joseph Moreau brought something back with him that would start a cultural revolution...

Hashish...

What would spawn inspiration to the greatest minds of the time, started with just two, in the Hashischin experiments...


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Jean-Martin Charcot drawing of Parkinson's patient


"from a psychic point of view, dream and delirium are one and the same."

-Jacques-Joseph Moreau


Returning to the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris to continue his studies, Dr. Moneau would befriend his young intern Jean-Martin Charcot.

Charcot hearing of Dr. Moreau's tales found himself curious of this new mystical drug. With his interest peaked Charcot agreed to subject himself to Moreau's experiments with hashish.

While the Club De Hachischins that would follow preferred to partake hashish by ingesting sweet loaf (edible hashish mixture), these original Hachischins would choose to burn...

"In 1853, he and a fellow medical student tried smoking hashish to understand the effect of this drug and the sensation of insanity it produced"

-Henry Meige about Charcot's Hashish experience



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Jean-Martin Charcot drawing done under the influence of hashish, 1853


"As soon as he was under the influence of the narcotic... the words become illegible; the strokes of the letters lengthen, twist upon themselves... are transformed into petals of flowers and snatches of architecture... The entire page is covered in drawings: monstrous dragons, grimacing chimeras, incoherent people in a fantastic whirlpool, which recalls the apocalyptic compositions of van Bosch or Jacques Callot”

-Henry Meige about Charcot's Hashish experience, 1898



Very few records exist of these first sessions of the Hachischins, but two drawings have emerged from the depths of history...

During the Hashish experiments Dr. Charcot would put pen to paper and sketch. These drawings reflected his morbid mind in expanding scenes of fantasy.

Jean-Martin Charcot would become known as "the founder of modern neurology" often even referred to as "the Napoleon of the Neuroses"...


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Jean-Martin Charcot drawing made under the influence of hashish, 1853



Dr. Charcot would go on to not only name but was the first to describe multiple sclerosis. He would also discover and diagnose Lou Gehrig disease which is even named after him as 'Charcot disease'. His ground breaking advances with Parkinson's disease along with many other aliments would further humanity's understanding of the mind...

Sigmund Freud among many other great minds would call Charcot their teacher and mentor forever changing humanities understanding of ourselves...

Charcot's cultural ripples would be felt more 100 years later when The Alan Parsons Project wrote a song about him...


The Alan Parsons Project - Let Yourself Go

Maitre charcot he can send you where the winds blow
Look in his eye and your mind goes into limbo
They say, he's mad as a hatter
He's no medicine man
Let yourself go, let yourself go, let yourself go

Maitre charcot he can teach you what you don't know
Look in his eye and the clock runs out of tempo
He knows, it's mind over matter
You'll fit in the palm of his hand
Let yourself go, let yourself go, let yourself go

It doesn't need too much explaining
It doesn't seem to be so hard

You just count to ten and then back again
And before long you won't know where you are

Maitre charcot he will catch you if you let go
Look in his eyes and your thoughts go into slow motion
You glide, like birds of a feather
He flies higher than you
Let yourself go, let yourself go, let yourself go

For any doubt you have remaining
Let me remind you once again
You just close you eyes as the eagle flies
And before you know it you won't feel any pain, any pain

I'd like to stay here forever, who needs the hullabaloo?
Let yourself go, let yourself go, let yourself go


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Next time your passing that spliff around the session, remember those who came before you... Blow one out to the Hashischins...


"Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing."

-Jean-Martin Charcot



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Jean-Martin Charcot studies in Neurosis, here his patient is displaying 'Ecstasy'
 

billycw

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"Hunting doves"


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A man aims a shotgun in a hemp field. The field has been cut and the hemp bundled. Mercer County, Kentucky - pre1904

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Four men with shotguns in a hemp field. Three of the men are aiming. Mercer County, Kentucky - pre1904

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Four men with shotguns walk through a field of cut hemp. One man holds a bird by the feet while another aims. Mercer County, Kentucky - pre1904
 

billycw

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42st Boys strutting 10th ave in Brooklyn, 1976...

So much amazing going on in this picture... Lets start with two of the guys wearing "Female Wanted" shirts while they eye the girl on the bike. What about the random car tire just chilling on the sidewalk?... Or my favorite, the dude on the right wearing a shirt that says...


"Keep On The Grass"



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10th ave in Borough Park/Sunset Park, Brooklyn - 1976


Extra credit... Any guesses what 'Keep on the Grass' guy is holding? I'm going with Popsicle stick...
 

PDX Dopesmoker

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"Let someone say of a doctor that he really knows his physiology or anatomy, that he is dynamic-these are not real compliments, but if you say that he is an observer, a person who knows how to see, this is perhaps the greatest compliment one can make."

- Jean-Martin Charcot in a lecture on Feb 28, 1888



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Sketch of Jean-Martin Charcot by one of his students


Godfathers of the Hashischins

Arriving back in Paris from accompanying a wealthy patient to Syria in the early 1850's, Dr. Jacques-Joseph Moreau brought something back with him that would start a cultural revolution...

Hashish...

What would spawn inspiration to the greatest minds of the time, started with just two, in the Hashischin experiments...


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Jean-Martin Charcot drawing of Parkinson's patient


"from a psychic point of view, dream and delirium are one and the same."

-Jacques-Joseph Moreau


Returning to the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris to continue his studies, Dr. Moneau would befriend his young intern Jean-Martin Charcot.

Charcot hearing of Dr. Moreau's tales found himself curious of this new mystical drug. With his interest peaked Charcot agreed to subject himself to Moreau's experiments with hashish.

While the Club De Hachischins that would follow preferred to partake hashish by ingesting sweet loaf (edible hashish mixture), these original Hachischins would choose to burn...

"In 1853, he and a fellow medical student tried smoking hashish to understand the effect of this drug and the sensation of insanity it produced"

-Henry Meige about Charcot's Hashish experience



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Jean-Martin Charcot drawing done under the influence of hashish, 1853


"As soon as he was under the influence of the narcotic... the words become illegible; the strokes of the letters lengthen, twist upon themselves... are transformed into petals of flowers and snatches of architecture... The entire page is covered in drawings: monstrous dragons, grimacing chimeras, incoherent people in a fantastic whirlpool, which recalls the apocalyptic compositions of van Bosch or Jacques Callot”

-Henry Meige about Charcot's Hashish experience, 1898



Very few records exist of these first sessions of the Hachischins, but two drawings have emerged from the depths of history...

During the Hashish experiments Dr. Charcot would put pen to paper and sketch. These drawings reflected his morbid mind in expanding scenes of fantasy.

Jean-Martin Charcot would become known as "the founder of modern neurology" often even referred to as "the Napoleon of the Neuroses"...


View Image
Jean-Martin Charcot drawing made under the influence of hashish, 1853



Dr. Charcot would go on to not only name but was the first to describe multiple sclerosis. He would also discover and diagnose Lou Gehrig disease which is even named after him as 'Charcot disease'. His ground breaking advances with Parkinson's disease along with many other aliments would further humanity's understanding of the mind...

Sigmund Freud among many other great minds would call Charcot their teacher and mentor forever changing humanities understanding of ourselves...

Charcot's cultural ripples would be felt more 100 years later when The Alan Parsons Project wrote a song about him...


The Alan Parsons Project - Let Yourself Go

Maitre charcot he can send you where the winds blow
Look in his eye and your mind goes into limbo
They say, he's mad as a hatter
He's no medicine man
Let yourself go, let yourself go, let yourself go

Maitre charcot he can teach you what you don't know
Look in his eye and the clock runs out of tempo
He knows, it's mind over matter
You'll fit in the palm of his hand
Let yourself go, let yourself go, let yourself go

It doesn't need too much explaining
It doesn't seem to be so hard

You just count to ten and then back again
And before long you won't know where you are

Maitre charcot he will catch you if you let go
Look in his eyes and your thoughts go into slow motion
You glide, like birds of a feather
He flies higher than you
Let yourself go, let yourself go, let yourself go

For any doubt you have remaining
Let me remind you once again
You just close you eyes as the eagle flies
And before you know it you won't feel any pain, any pain

I'd like to stay here forever, who needs the hullabaloo?
Let yourself go, let yourself go, let yourself go


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riki0XUv68o
[YOUTUBEIF]Riki0XUv68o[/YOUTUBEIF]


Next time your passing that spliff around the session, remember those who came before you... Blow one out to the Hashischins...


"Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing."

-Jean-Martin Charcot



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Jean-Martin Charcot studies in Neurosis, here his patient is displaying 'Ecstasy'

That dancing skeleton in a top hat sure does look familiar
 

billycw

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"Dope Raid"


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'Dope Raid' Alfred Perez - 24 years (narcotic suspect) Left; Ray Huber (officer) on Right. Los Angeles, California - May 16, 1951



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'Dope Raid' Alfred Perez - 24 years (narcotic suspect) Left; Ray Huber (officer) on Right. Los Angeles, California - May 16, 1951
 

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"A Cambodian soldier takes a marijuana break during a lull in the fighting, 1974"


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A Cambodian soldier takes a marijuana break during a lull in the fighting around Prek Tapao, 7 miles south east of Phnom Penh. The soldier keeps the pipe, made from a hefty length of bamboo, going with a lamp made from a 60mm mortar shell. Prek Tapao, Cambodia 1974

Cool picture. Which reminds me of a question I had. I've always thought those cheap gas mask bongs you see in head shops are just a gimmick, then someone said soldiers invented it during the Vietnam War. Do you know if this is true?
 

billycw

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Cool picture. Which reminds me of a question I had. I've always thought those cheap gas mask bongs you see in head shops are just a gimmick, then someone said soldiers invented it during the Vietnam War. Do you know if this is true?

True!

I've come across a couple of accounts of this during the Vietnam War. I'm guessing the practice predates the Vietnam era with multiple conflicts including WW1 and WW2 both issuing masks to soldiers, although my accounts of this are lacking...

Here is one account of U.S. Soldiers using a gas mask as a cannabis delivery instrument from the Vietnam War...

The book is called 'Strange Ground: An Oral History Of Americans In Vietnam, 1945-1975 By Harry Maurer'


"We'd take a gas mask and take the filters out and tape over them, and just make a hole in one of the filters. We'd stick a joint in the gas mask and puff like mad, just keep breathing until you either dropped or it burned through. Sometimes you would drop, and sometimes it would burn through."


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'Strange Ground: An Oral History Of Americans In Vietnam, 1945-1975 By Harry Maurer'

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'Tunnel Rat' Vietnam War
 

billycw

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Stimulant advertising from the 1880's... I think it still holds up as a classic,...

"Puck Wheels"



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Puck magazine, 1881 with stimulant ad on back
 

billycw

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Roadside Charas


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"This shot was taken on the road when we needed to stop for a pee on our way from Amritsar to Rishikesh. We realized this men making Charas (processed marijuana) on these massive marijuana fields along the road. This fields are really huge. They are kilometers long. By the way, this place was no secret drug field. It was next to a main road which thousands of cars passing all the time." Between Amritsar to Rishikesh, India
 

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