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...bill, sponsored by State Senator Jack H. Backman (D-Brookline), received a unanimous report out of the Joint Legislative Committee last week. Actually a compromise worked out from several other more radical reform bills, the Backman proposal could come up for debate in the state senate within two weeks...
Several bills for reducing existing Massachusetts penalties for possession of marijuana were introduced last month. State representative Barney Frank proposed a bill to remove all state controls on marijuana, and state senator Jack H. Backman proposed a more conservative statute to allow the possession and distribution of one ounce or less of grass...
...Backman's bill, aimed primarily at drug pushers, would maintain present penalties for cases involving greater amounts of marijuana...
Winsor said that the Frank bill "may make the Backman bill look like a greater compromise...
Frank said yesterday that he was "perfectly willing to accept the Backman bill as a political compromise...