Word: antimarijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cultural Rebellion. Whether or not they favor pot, many clergymen condemn strict laws against its use. Dr. James Donaldson of the Los Angeles Council of Churches believes that the severe penalties "fall not only on gangsters but on young people experimenting with cultural rebellion." Others argue that antimarijuana laws are an unfortunate attempt to legislate morality. Like the laws of Prohibition, they feel, such laws are bound to be dropped from the books as more and more people come to accept pot as simply another of life's pleasures. Questioning the morality of marijuana, says Father Richard Mann...
...hemp plant resin that gives a stick its kick, is more dangerous than the garden variety of "grass" generally available in the U.S. Pro-marijuana advocates admit this, but argue that legally available marijuana would lessen the appeal of hashish. The A.M.A.-N.R.C. report predicts that any relaxation of antimarijuana laws would encourage an even heavier illegal traffic in hashish, than that at present...
...marijuana user is unlikely to get his hands on hashish, let alone refined THC, considerable research must be done into the properties of all cannabis preparations before legalization of marijuana can be rationally considered. Action in this direction is obviously needed; like Prohibition's Volstead Act, current antimarijuana laws only result in the arrest of increasing thousands of young Americans each year without any deterrent effect. The use of marijuana is fast becoming a social phenomenon rather than a legal nuisance, but medical science and the law have not kept up with the change...
...Department, but the medical men of the Food and Drug Administration were opposed on the ground that an anti-LSD law would be about as enforceable as the Volstead Act. Chief adversary was FDA Commissioner James L. Goddard, who four months ago complained publicly about the harshness of existing antimarijuana laws. In a surprising turn last week, Dr. Goddard reluctantly endorsed the Johnson LSD bill during a congressional hearing before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce...
...Donald M. Bybee called it "a press field day," and a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union quickly protested the pretrial publicity. Students complained of "Gestapo tactics," pro tested that the ill-timed raid coincided with final exams. The campus radio station called the state's antimarijuana laws unjust and obsolete, while students circulated a petition saying "I, too, have smoked marijuana." A faculty resolution deplored the police's tactics, charging that the methods employed were more suitable to "quelling a rebellion" than to arresting peaceful students...