| 词组 | Jim Jones |
| 释义 | Jim Jones noun marijuana adulterated with cocaine and phencyclidine, the recreational drug known as PCP or angel dust UK, 1998 An eponym from the self-proclaimed messiah of the People’s Temple, James (Jim) Warren Jones, 1931–78, who promised followers utopia. In 1977 the sect established Jonestown, an agricultural commune in Guyana, South America. On 18 November 1978, Jones commanded cultists to drink a punch adulterated with cyanide. The majority obeyed: the mass suicide (“the Jonestown Massacre”) took 913 lives, including 276 children. This marijuana cocktail is a metaphor for a dream, represented here as marijuana, that is poisoned.
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