Word: antimarijuana
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Whatever the finding on Oteri's motion, antimarijuana laws will almost certainly not be wiped out by the current attack. In fact, only a few of marijuana's lawyer supporters favor untrammeled availability of pot. Most simply want to ease what they regard as Draconian penalties. Some reform does seem inevitable since even Food and Drug Administration Chief James Goddard agrees that the penalties for users are too severe...
...many a schoolchild is said to be an addict; prison authorities find muggle-smuggling a perplexing problem. Federal authorities say that marijuana, though a drug, is not a narcotic drug and therefore its users cannot be prosecuted under the Harrison Act. So in Louisiana the Legislature passed its own antimarijuana law. In California, Cornetist Louis Armstrong ("world's greatest Negro cornet player") was sentenced to jail for 30 days for taking poison when caught smoking a "reefer...