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on

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LA

all

my

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near

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poker

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military

and

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came

home

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became

more

unrecognizable

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brought

my

husband

to

Ca

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was

from

GA

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in

Riverside

he

commented

I

thought

you

said

you

grew

up

in

the

mountains

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was

so

much

smog

that

day

you

could

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at

the

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military

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the

thing

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been

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miss

California

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are

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consumer

protection

laws

here

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government

is

a

joke

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we

have

just

as

many

dumb

criminals

druggies

vandals

etc

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are

cheap

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dont

appreciate

yrs

later

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homes

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value

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when

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done

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do

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cost

you

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now

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made

as

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single

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for

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one

bedroom

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so

then

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on

Aug

Ive

lived

in

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California

my

entire

life

I

am

now

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put

living

costs

into

perspective

last

year

my

salary

was

I

have

since

been

laid

off

as

my

company

was

acquired

in

a

merger

which

is

common

here

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rented

a

single

story

house

built

in

with

absolutely

no

upgrades

in

Ventura

County

minutes

outside

of

LA

WITHOUT

traffic

easily

an

hour

and

a

half

to

two

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drive

on

the

average

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day

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rent

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and

water

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other

month

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Aug

I

lived

in

LA

pretty

much

my

whole

entire

life

until

few

years

ago

when

I

received

better

job

offer

from

foreign

company

and

now

I

live

in

Tokyo

Japan

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you

might

think

moving

from

LA

to

Tokyo

doesnt

make

much

sense

in

terms

of

cost

of

living

is

concerned

but

when

you

live

in

the

suburbs

of

Tokyo

like

I

do

the

cost

of

living

is

much

more

manageable

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least

its

less

than

where

Im

originally

from

which

is

Huntington

Beach

I

was

back

in

LA

just

two

weeks

ago

for

business

and

I

was

so

shocked

CASKET

BLACK

on

Jul

This

place

SUCKS

and

so

do

all

the

people

that

live

here

Ive

lived

in

southern

california

years

and

Ive

finally

pulled

my

self

up

from

homelessness

and

poverty

and

doing

everything

I

can

to

get

out

of

this

POS

state

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place

is

anything

but

the

land

of

the

free

of

everyone

I

have

ever

met

has

been

to

jail

is

in

jail

or

has

a

current

case

is

a

drug

addict

of

some

kind

and

is

a

person

going

no

where

in

life

The

number

of

people

that

I

trust

after

living

here

years

I

Anonymous

on

Jul

GOOD

LUCK

Our

Governor

Jerry

Brown

said

it

all

when

he

said

if

you

cant

afford

to

live

here

you

need

to

leave

The

place

is

expensive

crowded

and

not

all

that

glitz

portrayed

on

television

shows

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the

average

person

expect

to

pay

most

of

your

hard

earned

dollars

on

keeping

a

roof

over

your

head

sharing

an

apartment

with

potential

room

mates

and

most

of

your

time

working

to

do

that

For

those

dreamers

of

becoming

the

next

star

get

in

line

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a

car

is

also

expensive

and

difficult

to

find

parking

in

certain

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but

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LA

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imagine

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by

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la

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very

expensive

place

to

live

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loved

it

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when

I

was

there

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lived

in

transitional

housing

for

veterans

and

had

meals

a

day

there

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could

not

even

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per

month

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an

efficiency

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expensive

everywhere

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go

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square

foot

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bedroom

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per

month

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are

wanting

to

pay

per

month

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if

you

plan

on

having

any

extra

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not

sure

what

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to

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on

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cost

of

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and

housing

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GROSSLY

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pricedand

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is

no

outside

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center

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in

the

center

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is

the

westside

the

east

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the

valley

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then

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neighborhoodsso

this

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very

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with

a

modicum

of

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to

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extremely

expensive

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on

Jul

I

live

in

Los

Angeles

area

called

the

San

Fernando

Valley

One

of

the

hottest

temperaturewise

areas

of

LA

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weeks

ago

it

was

degrees

but

usually

it

stays

in

the

upper

and

this

time

of

year

with

maybe

a

couple

weeks

in

the

This

is

just

a

normal

neighborhood

of

tract

houses

built

after

WW

II

and

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house

behind

us

just

sold

for

and

it

is

just

a

simple

tract

house

with

NO

yard

to

speak

of

and

tiny

little

bedrooms

the

flippers

made

it

open

concept

which

made

the

bedrooms

like

closets

I

just

saw

a

new

apartment

building

with

no

amenities

no

pool

fitness

room

etcsituated

under

the

flight

path

of

Burbank

Airport

on

a

busy

and

noisy

street

advertising

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at

Apartments

near

here

are

going

for

for

bedrooms

and

NO

amenities

It

really

is

ridiculous

to

rent

here

and

to

find

an

affordable

house

you

need

to

find

one

for

in

a

gang

infested

area

or

one

that

is

falling

down

in

a

soso

area

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if

you

are

a

professional

or

if

you

can

start

a

small

business

or

if

you

can

get

into

one

of

the

unions

there

is

a

lot

of

money

to

be

made

around

here

BA

Make

Cakifornia

Great

Again

on

Jul

Los

Angeles

California

is

still

a

lot

cheaper

to

live

in

than

say

a

city

like

Sydney

or

Melbourne

Housing

in

these

two

cities

is

like

Million

to

for

a

bedroom

bungalow

in

a

good

area

within

a

km

radius

of

the

city

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to

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in

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rentbuy

costs

are

the

real

crux

of

the

cost

of

living

problem

in

most

major

cities

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can

economize

more

easily

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cooking

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learning

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the

taste

for

instant

coffee

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a

packet

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must

save

some

money

this

is

vitally

important

if

you

want

to

keep

your

head

above

water

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know

a

creative

entrepreneur

who

relocated

from

LA

to

Portland

Oregon

and

has

found

a

much

less

expensive

and

more

enjoyable

way

of

life

to

what

they

were

having

in

LA

LA

LA

Land

is

still

such

an

attraction

to

so

many

mainly

because

of

the

movie

and

TV

business

and

all

the

mystery

and

mystique

that

goes

along

with

it

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all

that

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school

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thos

who

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bit

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per

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person

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up

with

good

education

I

do

really

need

this

info

LA

Native

on

Jun

ding

dong

on

May

Ive

heard

that

driving

is

a

nightmare

in

LA

it

takes

forever

to

get

east

to

west

or

north

to

south

on

the

Anonymous

on

May

Born

and

raised

in

LA

Left

a

few

years

and

I

just

recently

moved

back

Now

I

have

to

leave

again

because

the

rent

here

makes

no

sense

Everyone

wants

to

live

here

and

its

pushing

all

of

us

out

Dont

come

here

There

is

no

room

Youll

spend

your

entire

life

on

the

freeway

and

the

rest

of

it

working

at

a

job

you

hate

so

you

can

spend

it

all

on

rent

nomad

boy

on

Apr

My

big

fear

or

worry

is

that

Ill

end

up

living

in

a

car

or

van

Ive

watched

some

videos

on

YouTube

about

how

people

do

it

and

in

many

ways

it

isnt

so

bad

I

guess

But

I

do

like

to

have

access

to

a

clean

kitchen

and

bathroom

dont

fancy

having

to

use

public

brooms

but

I

suppose

you

have

to

be

adaptable

and

flexible

if

youre

going

to

live

a

mobile

nomadic

lifestyle

It

would

be

disastrous

to

lose

your

drivers

license

and

then

what

maybe

its

best

not

to

drive

too

far

from

the

area

you

feel

most

safe

and

secure

in

I

suppose

just

to

avoid

the

chance

of

a

driving

offense

Does

anyone

hear

think

about

living

in

a

vehicle

instead

of

an

apartmenthouse

Calabasas

Guy

on

Nov

Assuming

tax

arriving

at

the

salary

it

puts

an

estimated

salary

average

yearly

salary

of

NOT

A

CHANCE

The

figure

could

be

for

average

household

income

MAYBE

but

not

for

a

single

person

Accounting

for

EVERYONE

including

undocumented

aliens

there

are

millions

dont

think

its

a

trivial

amount

The

average

yearly

salary

is

likely

closer

to

per

person

and

thats

being

generous

assuming

an

average

rate

for

everyone

Average

Disposable

after

tax

income

is

more

like

a

month

Factor

in

the

rent

it

leaves

to

cover

all

other

expenses

To

think

Otherwise

good

job

on

the

other

stats

Fun

site

L

Don

on

Oct

Los

Angeles

California

the

city

of

dreams

Can

you

imagine

what

it

must

have

been

like

in

the

mid

and

in

this

town

LA

was

sunny

and

full

of

great

vibe

Sunset

BLVD

the

Sunset

Strip

was

The

Place

Parisa

on

Oct

I

hate

LA

Specially

south

la

No

job

no

opportunity

I

got

depression

and

I

wanna

quit

here

for

ever

Brett

on

Oct

I

used

to

live

in

simi

and

thousand

oaks

as

a

kid

I

want

to

move

back

to

cali

and

miss

what

I

once

knewI

am

in

the

paint

and

body

business

and

would

like

to

know

where

my

best

locations

would

be

Just

about

anywhere

in

southern

California

would

be

finecost

of

living

info

would

also

be

appreciatedthank

you

Blah

on

Sep

Stay

where

you

are

and

quit

trying

to

crowd

us

already

too

crowded

as

it

is

You

will

not

be

a

model

a

star

an

actor

a

singer

what

ever

Give

it

up

hessam

on

Sep

Hii

want

to

come

into

to

study

chimtery

please

can

anyone

living

in

LA

a

good

and

cheaper

house

to

rentone

bed

room

in

a

safe

area

If

you

answer

me

you

will

be

my

friendhessamaboualihotmailcom

BigTex

on

Aug

Dear

all

I

would

like

to

get

your

opinion

in

moving

to

LA

from

Texas

I

have

bene

offered

a

government

job

starting

at

My

wife

and

I

have

two

babies

and

we

are

planning

to

home

school

them

so

school

districts

will

be

less

of

a

factor

Can

anyone

recommend

a

good

place

to

live

safe

and

affordable

I

will

be

working

downtown

LA

Thank

you

so

much

BigTex

munya

on

Jul

eish

are

u

telling

me

that

this

is

actually

real

in

LA

I

mean

seriously

I

cant

believe

it

I

would

request

someone

to

share

with

me

more

please

Tony

Rocket

on

Mar

Thank

you

for

your

info

on

the

LA

metro

plus

your

other

info

much

appreciated

Tomas

R

on

Mar

According

wikipedia

average

salary

should

be

dollars

per

month

Why

there

are

so

high

salary

averages

on

numbeo

And

this

is

not

only

the

case

of

Los

angeles

Maybe

because

only

some

sort

people

comes

here

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCalifornia_locations_by_income

Tony

Rocket

on

Mar

Thanks

for

such

an

interesting

and

informative

post

I

think

living

in

Los

Angeles

would

be

amazing

even

if

it

was

just

for

one

year

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Archives 1994 Lorena Bobbitt Acquitted In Mutilation of Husband By DAVID MARGOLICK JAN 22 1994 About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive before the start of online publication in 1996 To preserve these articles as they originally appeared The Times does not alter edit or update them Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems Please send reports of such problems to archive_feedbacknytimescom View page in TimesMachine January 22 1994 Page 001001 The New York Times Archives In a verdict that highlighted the plight and rights of abused women a jury today found Lorena L Bobbitt not guilty of all criminal charges concluding that she was temporarily insane last June when she cut off her husbands penis with a kitchen knife When the jury of seven women and five men announced its decision acquitting Mrs Bobbitt of malicious wounding an offense for which she could have been imprisoned for 20 years a gasp went up among her supporters in the courtroom Mrs Bobbitt who was born in Ecuador and raised in Venezuela apparently did not understand what the jury foreman had said Turning to one of her lawyers Lisa Kemler of Alexandria she asked Is that good Ms Kemler replied Youre free Mrs Bobbitt smiled briefly then resumed her customarily serious slightly sorrowful expression She still faces one more hurdle a psychiatric examination that could last 45 days To Undergo Evaluation Moments after the verdict Mrs Bobbitt left through the rear of the courtroom and was taken for psychiatric evaluation as state law provides for people acquitted for reasons of insanity She was taken to Central State Hospital in Petersburg where a psychiatrist and a psychologist will determine whether she poses any danger to herself or the public The doctors are to decide on a course of treatment for Mrs Bobbitt which will determine how long she is held She could be released after 45 days under an order to seek private treatment The defense argued and the jury agreed after slightly more than six hours of deliberation that Mrs Bobbitt flooded with nightmarish images of her husbands abuse and suffering from a variety of mental illnesses snapped psychologically after her husband raped her and yielded to an irresistible impulse to strike back In testimony Mrs Bobbitt said she had not realized what she had done until later when she fled their home and was in her car She said she then discovered the knife in one hand and her husbands penis in the other She threw what she called his body part in the underbrush from which it was retrieved and after nine hours of surgery reattached The verdict brought to an end the eightday trial during which the Bobbitt marriage became one of the most highly publicized and minutely scrutinized ever Fortyeight witnesses including Mrs Bobbitt and her husband John W Bobbitt graphically depicted a relationship gone sour The disintegration culminated early on the morning of June 23 Mrs Bobbitt said when moments after her drunken husband raped her and while she was drinking a glass of water in the kitchen she spotted a 12inch knife picked it up approached the sleeping man and cut him Seek Her American Dream In a statement read in English by Janna Bisutti owner of the nail salon where Mrs Bobbitt has worked as a manicurist Mrs Bobbitt thanked her supporters and urged other battered women to seek the help of friends and counselors She did once and will again seek her American dream when she is able and if the publicity of her abuse can help one person find freedom then all of this is not in vain said the statement which was later read in Spanish The prosecutor in the case Paul B Ebert the Prince William County Commonwealth Attorney expressed fears that the verdict could send the wrong message about deterrence and punishment I have a certain amount of sympathy for Mrs Bobbitt but that doesnt justify what she did Mr Ebert said A lot of people go to the penitentiary who in some ways tug at your heart strings but when you violate the law youve got to be punished in my opinion and this is no exception Im happy she went out the back door rather than the front Kim Gandy executive vice president of the National Organization for Women said today Were glad the jury rejected the twisted argument that a battered woman should be locked up in a prison cell Ms Gandy added however that this whole saga drives home the need for swift passage of a comprehensive version of the Violence Against Women Act which is stalled in the neverneverland of Congressional maneuvering Marital Abuse Corroborated In remarks in the courtroom after the verdict Mr Ebert said he had no regrets about calling Mr Bobbitt to testify even though the prosecutions own experts concluded that he had abused and raped his wife I dont think we could begin to have a successful prosecution without calling the victim in this case Mr Ebert said John Bobbitt is what he is and he testified Im sure to the best of his ability He also said he felt he had done nothing wrong by handling the prosecutions of both Mr and Mrs Bobbitt Last November a jury cleared Mr Bobbitt of charges of marital sexual abuse in a case that examined evidence from only the five days immediately preceding the mutilation A procession of witnesses corroborated Mrs Bobbitts account of marital abuse saying they often saw her with bruises on her body Two forensic psychologists and a psychiatrist from the hospital in Petersburg all appointed by the court last fall to examine Mrs Bobbitt concluded she was a battered woman They also concluded that she was seriously depressed when she cut her husband two held that she was suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder But all rejected the diagnosis of a defense expert that Mrs Bobbitt had suffered a brief reactive psychosis one that left her defenseless when the thought of mutilating her husband came to her Her actions they concluded were too purposeful and goaloriented to meet the definition of irresistible impulse which impel random attacks on friend or foe alike without regard for the consequences At the insistence of the defense Judge Herman A Whisenants charge to jurors on irresistible impulse was considerably less stringent requiring only that they find that Mrs Bobbitts mind was so impaired by disease that she was unable to resist the impulse to commit the crime The jury wrestled with the language of the charge asking Judge Whisenant at one point whether they could use the doctors broader definition He told them they could not moments later they returned with their verdict Memories of Mutilation The jury rejected the prosecutions assertion that Mrs Bobbitt acted intentionally and maliciously It also acquitted her of a lesser charge unlawful wounding rejecting the assertion that she acted with intent and in the heat of passion The prosecution maintained that Mrs Bobbitts testimony of remembering nothing about the episode an assertion they hinted that neatly fit her insanity defense was belied by more credible statements that she had made earlier He always have orgasm and he doesnt wait for me to have orgasm she told a police lieutenant hours after the incident Hes selfish I dont think its fair so I pulled back the sheets then and I did it While Mrs Bobbitts memories of the mutilation waned over time her memory of the prelude grew more expansive as she detailed how her mind clouded over with what she called pictures and what psychiatrists call flashbacks common to people who have suffered severe trauma But with witness after witness along with Mrs Bobbitt herself attesting to Mr Bobbitts psychological physical and sexual abusiveness and with Mrs Bobbitts having won sympathizers nationwide through broadcasts of the trial prosecutors appeared fearful of challenging Mrs Bobbitts credibility too explicitly The verdict ended at least in the courts what began as a depressingly ordinary private domestic dispute between two mismatched people one a 26yearold former marine bar bouncer cab driver and construction worker the other his Ecuadorianborn wife whom he married in 1989 The matter would surely have remained that way had Mrs Bobbitt amputated any of her husbands other appendages Whether generated by concern for the problem of domestic violence voyeurism or the way in which it has broken numerous social and journalistic taboos however public appetite for the Bobbitts seems insatiable Mr Bobbitt was not in the courtroom for todays verdict Appearing on Larry King Live his parents Marylyn and Bill Biro who were with him elsewhere in Manassas at the time of the verdict said their son was dumbfounded by the results and asked You mean she got away with it Throughout the case juxtaposed images of normalcy and perversity Mr Bobbitt Ms Kemler said in her opening statement was everything Mrs Bobbitt wanted He was handsome he seemed nice he was a US marine after all Mrs Bobbitt depicted herself as a devout unworldly and deeply religious Roman Catholic woman but one who admitted stealing dresses from Nordstroms and money and manicuring equipment from Ms Bisutti Together they made an unusual couple whose bitter bruising fights were interspersed with trips to Luray Caverns and the Kings Dominion amusement park who engaged in consensual sex 72 hours before the amputation even as they planned to divorce They are like children Mr Ebert said in his closing argument Neither one plays with a whole deck They dont have all their spigots open A version of this article appears in print on January 22 1994 on Page 1001001 of the National edition with the headline Lorena Bobbitt Acquitted In Mutilation of Husband Order Reprints Todays Paper

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Opinion OpEd Columnist The Birth Control Solution Nicholas Kristof NOV 2 2011 What if there were a solution to many of the global problems that confront us from climate change to poverty to civil wars There is but it is starved of resources Its called family planning and it has been a victim of Americas religious wars Partly for that reason the worlds population just raced past the seven billion mark this week at least according to the fuzzy calculations of United Nations demographers It took humans hundreds of thousands of years until the year 1804 to reach the first billion It took another 123 years to reach two billion in 1927 Since then weve been passing these milestones like billboards along a highway The latest billion took just a dozen years In 1999 the United Nations best projection was that the world wouldnt pass seven billion until 2013 but we reached it two years early Likewise in 1999 the UN estimated that the world population in 2050 would be 89 billion but now it projects 93 billion Whats the impact of overpopulation One is that youth bulges in rapidly growing countries like Afghanistan and Yemen makes them more prone to conflict and terrorism Booming populations also contribute to global poverty and make it impossible to protect virgin forests or fend off climate change Some studies have suggested that a simple way to reduce carbon emissions in the year 2100 is to curb population growth today Moreover weve seen that family planning works Women in India average 26 children down from 6 in 1950 As recently as 1965 Mexican women averaged more than seven children but that has now dropped to 22 But some countries have escaped this demographic revolution Women in Afghanistan Chad Congo Somalia East Timor and Uganda all have six or more children each the UN says In rural Africa Ive come across women who have never heard of birth control According to estimates from the Guttmacher Institute a respected research group 215 million women want to avoid getting pregnant but have no access to contraception Whats needed isnt just birthcontrol pills or IUDs Its also girls education and womens rights starting with an end to child marriages for educated women mostly have fewer children Nicholas Kristof Damon WinterThe New York Times In times past the biggest barrier to reducing birth rates has been a lack of access to contraceptives the Population Institute notes in a new report Today the biggest barrier is gender inequality The seven billion population milestone is also a reminder that we need more research for better contraceptives One breakthrough is an inexpensive vaginal ring that releases hormones lasts a year and should not require a doctor Developed by the Population Council it has completed Phase 3 trials and seems highly effective It could even contain medication to reduce the risk of an infection with the AIDS virus Traditionally support for birth control was bipartisan The Roman Catholic hierarchy was opposed but Republican presidents like Richard Nixon and George HW Bush provided strong support Then family planning became tarnished by overzealous and coercive programs in China and India and contraception became entangled in Americas abortion wars Many wellmeaning religious conservatives turned against it and funding lagged The result was paradoxically more abortions When contraception is unavailable the likely consequence is not less sex but more pregnancy Contraception already prevents 112 million abortions a year by UN estimates The United Nations Population Fund is a bête noire for conservatives but its promotion of contraception means that it may have reduced abortions more than any organization in the world Republicans are seeking to cut more money from global family planning which in poor countries would mean more abortions and more women dying in childbirth Conservatives have also sought to slash Title X Family Planning programs within the United States The Guttmacher Institute estimates that in a year these domestic programs avert 973000 unintended pregnancies of which 406000 would end in abortions Guttmacher calculates that these familyplanning centers in the United States actually save taxpayers roughly 34 billion annually that would otherwise be spent on pregnancies and babies Finally a ray of hope A group of evangelical Christians led by Richard Cizik of The New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good is drafting a broad statement of support for family planning It emphasizes that family planning reduces abortion and lives lost in childbirth Family planning is morally laudable in Christian terms because of its contribution to family wellbeing womens health and the prevention of abortion the draft says Amen Contraceptives no more cause sex than umbrellas cause rain So as we greet the sevenbillionth human lets try to delay the arrival of the eight billionth We should all be able to agree on voluntary family planning as a costeffective strategy to reduce poverty conflict and environmental damage If you think family planning is expensive you havent priced babies I invite you to visit my blog On the Ground Please also join me on and watch my YouTube videos and follow me on A version of this oped appears in print on November 3 2011 on Page A31 of the New York edition with the headline The Birth Control Solution Todays Paper

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Sports Essay Solo Climber Reaches New Heights By TIM NEVILLE JUNE 15 2012 Alex Honnold in Oregon in 2010 Earlier this month he climbed Mount Watkins El Capitan and Half Dome the three biggest rock faces in Yosemite in about 19 hours Ben Moon As a professional rock climber who often scales cliffs with nothing to save him should he fall Alex Honnold has encountered plenty of harrowing moments But early this month Honnold a 26yearold from Sacramento found himself high on a face in Yosemite National Park in a creepy situation Honnold was attempting something no one had done before climb the three biggest rock faces in the California park in succession alone and in less than 24 hours Dubbed the triple the task would mean scaling the sheer walls of Mount Watkins El Capitan and Half Dome for a total of about 7000 vertical feet of rock For all but about 500 feet of it Honnold planned to climb with no ropes or safety equipment at all One mistake and he could die There is nothing in sports that compares to this said John Long who in 1975 was the first to scale El Capitan in a day with his partners Billy Westbay and Jim Bridwell Most people need about five days The physical exertion alone is amazing Yet about halfway up the 2000foothigh south face of Mount Watkins the first of the three big walls Honnold faced another problem Hordes of wingless insects called silverfish poured down the rock in biblical proportions There Honnold was dangling by his fingertips with inchlong arthropods wiggling into his ears tickling his neck and probing his mouth with wispy antennae It was heinous he said At any given point I had dozens of them on me But what are you going to do The swarm hardly slowed him By the time Honnold reached safe ground he had climbed the route in a blistering 2 hours 20 minutes believed to be a record Most parties need several days The encounter with the silverfish was the latest twist for Honnold whose feats over the past few years have made him the countrys most renowned rock climber He has been featured on 60 Minutes pictured on the cover of National Geographic magazine and now earns six figures a year from speaking engagements and sponsors like The North Face La Sportiva and Black Diamond Honnold has become the closest thing to a celebrity that American rock climbing offers with fawning fans who rush in to take pictures and get autographs Alex Honnold in Oregon in 2010 The triple is perhaps Yosemites most spectacular enchainment or linkup in climber lingo and only a handful of people in the world if that many are capable of doing it in a day Ben Moon Honnold invited me to shadow him for a week in the park Together with Sender Films a Boulder Colobased production company that specializes in rock climbing videos we would have exclusive behindthescenes access to what many observers said could be a milestone in the history of climbing in Yosemite a major epicenter where the elite come to push the bounds of their sport The triple is perhaps Yosemites most spectacular enchainment or linkup in climber lingo and only a handful of people in the world if that many are capable of doing it in a day Depending on the routes taken a climber faces at least 70 pitches ropelengths with some holds so small that human fingers are physically incapable of grasping them In those cases a climber must place gear onto the rock and then pull on that gear to aid in upward movement a technique known as aid climbing Using only your hands and feet to go up with a rope Honnold wanted to improve upon that style by going alone and using no gear or rope for most of it a dangerous technique known as freesoloing To prepare himself Honnold arrived in Yosemite in May and embarked on a climbing frenzy He became the first to free solo the west face of El Capitan and the first along with fellow professional climber Tommy Caldwell to free climb the triple They did it in about 21 hours That alone is a huge step up because they are not pulling on any gear at all said Peter Croft who with John Bachar in 1986 was the first to link two Yosemite big walls Half Dome and El Capitan in a day Honnold kept the blogosphere humming with more accomplishments On June 1 he climbed the iconic 2000foothigh northwest face of Half Dome alone with a mix of aid and freesoloing techniques in a staggering 121 48 minutes faster than his previous record On Sunday Honnold and Hans Florine a Yosemite speed climber hope to break another speed record climbing The Nose route up El Capitan Potter and Sean Leary currently hold that record at 23545 But the solo triple if successful was most likely to go down as one of Honnolds greatest achievements After he summited Mount Watkins and the silverfish were gone he hiked through the highlands to the white Ford van he calls home for much of the year He whipped it around the curves driving back down into the valley while his girlfriend Stacey Pearson a 26yearold nurse cooked him dinner on a camping stove in the back By 930 pm Pearson Peter Mortimer of Sender Films and I stood at the base of El Capitan while Honnold prepared to climb the Alex Honnold in Oregon in 2010 After he completed the triple he took off his shoes asked for some Oreos and was mobbed by dozens of onlookers who wanted to know how he felt Ben Moon I feel like Im forgetting something Honnold said Arent you going to tie your shoes Pearson asked Not until I start rock climbing he said already 30 feet up the cliff Back at the van we discovered what Honnold had forgotten a chalk bag that he would need to keep his hands dry and able to grip the wet slippery rock The horror of what Honnold was facing gave us all pause and Mortimer quickly called some of his cameramen filming the feat to see if Honnold was in trouble He was not Marc Steins Newsletter Hes covered Jordan Hes covered Kobe And LeBron vs the Warriors Go behind the NBAs curtain with the leagues foremost expert You will receive emails containing news content updates and promotions from The New York Times You may optout at any time Im not a robot reCAPTCHA Privacy Terms Privacy Policy Opt out or contact us anytime Theres a guy climbing alone and really fast said Colin Delehanty a lensman who was shooting timeelapsed footage That has to be him About 1000 feet up Honnold borrowed chalk from a group of climbers he encountered and by 330 am he was at the top and bound for Half Dome which he began climbing at around 8 am Watching Honnold complete the final pitches up the northwest face was terrifying and impressive I had hiked to the top in time for sunrise Around 1030 am I peered into the dizzying abyss below and Honnold was about 300 feet from the top without a rope moving with insectlike mechanicalness He waved at Pearson who had come up earlier that morning It was clear that even now exhausted as he was Honnold was climbing far below his ability and that it was unlikely he would fall Oh my god shouted a hiker who saw him That guy has no rope Dude are you serious exclaimed another I cant look Honnold reached the summit shortly before 11 am about 19 hours after he started Mount Watkins He took off his shoes asked for some Oreos and was mobbed by dozens of onlookers who wanted to know how he felt Fragile he said I am going to turn my brain off and stagger downhill now That was kind of a big deal A version of this article appears in print on June 16 2012 on Page D5 of the New York edition with the headline New Heights Order Reprints Todays Paper

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What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell Isabel Seliger Isabel Seliger When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site we earn an affiliate commission By Aaron Hamburger Jan 29 2016 In a controversial 1999 New Yorker review of Alan Hollinghursts novel The Spell John Updike summed up a common prejudice about gay stories namely that they have nothing to interest straight readers Updike the author of the sex romp Couples among other sexually frank novels complained that Hollinghursts relentlessly gay fiction bored him because in gay stories nothing is at stake but selfgratification In contrast stories with heterosexual characters involve perpetuation of the species and the ancient sacralized structures of the family Essentially Updike is asking Whats the big deal Its just sex Garth Greenwells masterly debut novel What Belongs to You provides a ringing answer to Updikes willfully dense question The book is set in contemporary Bulgaria still struggling to move on from its Communist past Here gay desire remains a cultural taboo so that expressing one of the most basic of human emotions is quite a big deal with plenty at stake beyond selfgratification Because the novel opens with a man cruising for sex in a public bathroom some readers may initially be tempted to write off What Belongs to You as gay fiction The cruising man in question Greenwells unnamed narrator resembles the author a gay American poet teaching abroad at a college in Sofia Advertisement Looking for sex and maybe companionship in a land where gays find one another in the shadows the narrator encounters a smalltime hustler named Mitko Their relationship begins as sexual then turns to something more mysterious fraught and destabilizing to them both Its a compliment to Greenwells writing that the vividly written sex scenes are the least compelling aspect of this wonderful book which is divided into three sections The first section Mitko was published as a standalone novella in 2011 It follows the two main characters as they go through the initial paces of their unequal relationship complicated by the relative financial privilege of the narrator and the elusive personality of the charismatic Mitko A 21stcentury answer to Christopher Isherwoods shabbily charming Sally Bowles Mitko veers between attracting as many male admirers as possible in person and online and then plaintively Despite this dynamic character and Greenwells dexterous prose the plot of Mitko feels slightly thin Readers may want to pull an Updike and tell the narrator Hey its just sex Whats the big deal The resounding answer comes in the next section A Grave in which Greenwell powerfully expands the books scope Sparked by news of his estranged fathers impending death the narrator recounts several evocative vignettes of his own youthful attempts to grapple with his sexual identity in redstate Kentucky Taken in succession these two sections expose the process of gay shame how a traditional upbringing conditions a sweet innocent kid to link desire with humiliation and hiding and then how that kid transforms into a man addicted to that connection Why would any contemporary American gay man in his right mind move to of all places Bulgaria Perhaps in this case because it reminds the books hero of his old Kentucky home Advertisement In the novels final section Pox the narrator has overcome some of his internal hurdles and formed a healthier relationship with a man from Portugal called R At the same time he cant quite let go of Mitko or is it that Mitko will not let go of him Greenwell poignantly evokes the narrators inability to resist the draw of Mitkos erratic neediness Much but not all of the sexual charge of their relationship has dissipated for the narrator yet a mysterious feeling of responsibility for Mitkos increasingly grim fate remains Greenwell is one of several contemporary writers working in an all over prose style similar to that of a Jackson Pollock abstract expressionist painting in which all compositional details seem to be given equal weight Other current allover practitioners include the literary darlings and presumed heterosexuals Ben Lerner and Karl Ove Knausgaard In these works even the stories themselves seem barely shaped merely lifted from the authors lives and flung directly onto the page like paint on a Pollock canvas Though this style has roots in the works of European writers like W G Sebald Thomas Bernhard and further back Marcel Proust its recent resurgence feels born out of a new and different impulse perhaps an eerie echo of the relentless formless I I I of social media Yet Greenwells writing stands out from that of his all over contemporaries whose language sometimes slides into blandness or cliché By contrast Greenwell takes more consistent care with his finely wrought words and sentences His prose regularly delivers dazzling treasures How helpless desire is outside its little theater of heat Three long walkways extended from the beach into the sea branching out at their ends into three separate promenades like the arms it seemed to me of a snowflake as drawn by a child At the very moment we come into full consciousness of ourselves what we experience is leavetaking and a loss we seek the rest of our lives to restore And he is equally memorable on uptotheminute concerns like online communication on for instance the symbols and abbreviations of Internet chat that make such language seem so much like a process of decay While other writers use the allover style somewhat indiscriminately lavishing the same degree of attention on descriptions of morning coffee or a joint as on Big Thoughts about art or mortality Greenwell has an instinctual feel for sharpening his focus at key moments to create depth of feeling For instance in the bravura opening to A Grave the narrators reaction to learning that his father is dying becomes an object lesson in suffusing description of setting with a characters emotions Advertisement Perhaps for readers who share Updikes point of view on the subject the fact of Greenwells narrators gayness makes his story less universal as if the job of fiction were to act as a mirror rather than a lens that can introduce readers to characters of all stripes Yet objectively speaking the hazards of being gay for Greenwells characters make their plot at least as dramatic as say that of Knausgaards socially awkward teenager trying to sneak alcohol into a party in Book 1 of My Struggle or Lerners expatriate poet adrift on a haze of hash in Leaving the Its a shame then that What Belongs to You is burdened with such a vague and unmemorable title And the emphasis on Bulgarias history and culture could have been stronger to help solidify its choice as backdrop Likewise even if the countrys thematic role is clear it might have been nice from a straightforward narrative perspective to understand more about how the protagonist ended up there Of course an amiable laxness with story structure is a hazard of the allover style at first the pace lags but in a short book like this a little slowness is not fatal None WHAT BELONGS TO YOU By Garth Greenwell 194 pp Farrar Straus Giroux 23 Aaron Hamburger is the author of a story collection The View From Stalins Head and a novel Faith for Beginners A version of this article appears in print on Jan 30 2016 on Page 11 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline Sex Shame and Desire Order Reprints Todays Paper Advertisement Help Times journalists uncover the next big story Subscribe to The New York Times Subscribe Now

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Chasing Bigger High Marijuana Users Turn to Dabbing Chasing Bigger High Marijuana Users Turn to Dabbing Tony Holl who sells marijuana extract near the New York Stock Exchange Users say there is a heightened appeal the ease of evasion Sam Hodgson for The New York Times Tony Holl who sells marijuana extract near the New York Stock Exchange Users say there is a heightened appeal the ease of evasion Sam Hodgson for The New York Times By Sarah Maslin Nir May 12 2016 On a recent bright afternoon two teenage boys in boat shoes and shorts strolled up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in a crowd of passersby At 56th Street they paused as one pulled an electronic pipe out of his pocket and held it to his friends lips Inside was a potent and littlestudied drug made from distilled marijuana they were emboldened they said by the fact that the gooey wax hardly has a smell and is so novel in New York that even if discovered parents teachers or even the authorities hardly seem to know what it is As throngs walked by the boys stood in front of the diamondfilled windows of Harry Winston getting high The practice of consuming marijuana extract a yellow waxy substance that can contain high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol or THC the chemical in unprocessed marijuana that produces a high appears to have risen rapidly in New York City over the past few years according to federal law enforcement officials as well as people who use and sell the drug Its rise crosses social lines from experimenting teenagers to workers on Wall Street And it is driven by many factors including the Eastwardtrickling effects of a much more permissive marijuana culture in the West where it is now dispensed legally in some Medical experts have begun to raise alarms saying the substance is too new to be fully understood and could pose unknown health risks Critics cite its largely unregulated production in a process that often involves home cooks who douse marijuana with volatile butane which can lead to explosions Advertisement The New York Fire Department did not have information on whether there had been fires linked to local production but in 2013 a teenage boy was killed and a girl badly injured while allegedly making the substance inside a home in Marine Park Brooklyn A spokeswoman for the Police Department said there were no records of any officers even encountering the extract last year 15000 summonses were issued for possessing small amounts of marijuana Federal law enforcement officials however say the drug also known as shatter butter and honey is now on their radar We monitor any type of new twist on drug use in order to warn the public of its danger James J Hunt special agent in charge of the federal Drug Enforcement Administrations New York division said in an email Referring to the marijuana extract he said Not only is the method of production explosive but the use has serious physical and psychological side effects Underscoring the drugs rise is a profound cultural shift As social mores regarding marijuana have loosened there is a sense among some that dabbing as the practice of using the extract is popularly known titillates because plain old pot has lost its edge Advertisement A lot of it is were doing it in disguise said one of the teenagers on Fifth Avenue both students at the Masters School a private boarding school in Dobbs Ferry New York The two asked that their names not be used because they did not want get in trouble with the police or school administrators The advent of vaporizers and the smaller vape pen a device similar to an ecigarette users say is also increasing the popularity of dabbing Just squeeze the extract into a chamber inside the pen one teenager said and inhale And we can do it The practice of consuming marijuana extract which can contain high levels of THC appears to have risen rapidly in New York City over the past few years Sam Hodgson for The New York Times The practice of consuming marijuana extract which can contain high levels of THC appears to have risen rapidly in New York City over the past few years Sam Hodgson for The New York Times His classmate says the appeal is the ferocity of the high Users can sometimes pass out after inhaling and the stupefying effects can last for hours and border on the hallucinatory Marijuana in its traditional plant form has a THC concentration of about 20 percent according to information distributed by the Drug Enforcement Administration The wax used for dabbing can have a concentration of up to 80 percent Marijuana the teenager said is the beer of THC as dabbing is to vodka The extract is typically made by pouring a solvent over marijuana plants to extract the THC then letting the solvent evaporate The waxy substance that remains and its variants now make up a booming sector of the marijuana economy according to the ArcView Group a company that studies and invests in the cannabis industry The product is so new that even in states where marijuana is permitted to some degree there is frequently no regulation concerning its labeling or how it is made The laws havent caught up with this part of the marketplace said Paul Armentano the deputy director of Norml a national organization that advocates the legalization of marijuana There has been little research on marijuana concentrates and whether they affect the body differently than other forms of marijuana But what is known is cause for concern according to Emily Feinstein the director of health law and policy for the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse There is some evidence to suggest that the outcomes like the effects may be supercharged Ms Feinstein said in an email Side effects can include a rapid heartbeat blackouts psychosis paranoia and hallucinations that cause people to end up in psychiatric facilities Even among marijuana proponents dabbing is a polarizing topic On message boards and online forums some say it is just another way to consume the drug while others fear that it could be misused When a product is more potent and when the route of administration is conducive to people experiencing a very strong high very quickly Mr Armentano said then one can argue that the risk of abuse goes up A man who sells marijuana on Craigslist who identified himself as Tony Holl said in an interview that his business had risen dramatically I was surprised once one person asked then a whole bunch of people asked he said Its definitely a trend In New York users say there is a heightened appeal the ease of evasion Videos are traded among teenagers that show off brazen dabbing in public in the bleachers at high school sports games or even in school Advertisement One user a 27yearold man who lives in Midwood drew a parallel with the technological advances that have shrunk computers into palmsize smartphones and as driving the fad for a smaller more powerful punch Back in the day people had to find a way to smoke weed to roll it into something he said adding that to do so now in this era of concentrates seems archaic On a recent afternoon in SoHo Mr Holl who is 40 produced manila envelopes he said he was on his way to deliver A police officer walked nearby but Mr Holl said he was not concerned as he displayed his wares white paper smeared with brownish wax He said most people would not recognize it as a drug One thing Mr Holl says he will not do however is use his product The high he said is too intense Thats the only dangerous thing about it he said Opportunities can pass you by A version of this article appears in print on May 12 2016 on Page A 19 of the New York edition with the headline Chasing Bigger High Marijuana Users Turn to a Yellow Waxy Extract Order Reprints Todays Paper Advertisement

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