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While the pro-pot forces have pushed their agenda at the polls, opponents have tried to use legal muscle to fight back. After a Supreme Court decision last year reiterating that federal drug laws trumped state ones, the Drug Enforcement Administration sent federal agents to California to bust medical-marijuana growers, a move that tended to outrage California voters who had approved this use. In fact, as the Administration pushes harder against the pro-pot forces, pot supporters seem to gain ground...
...bust itself was very upsetting—at 5 a.m. there was a piercing shriek, a high-pitched buzz. The SDS had pulled all of the fire alarms in all of the dorms when they figured out that there was a bust coming. Buses pulled up between Mem Church and Thayer, right outside my window. The state police had come out for this. It was like a scene out of the movies, out of Spartacus—they got off the bus, lined up in phalanxes and marched over to University Hall. I wonder if this was just...
Gerald R. Toner ’72: I remember in ’69, my friend Bill [Martin] here called me at 5 a.m. to tell me that there was a bust coming. I lived in Matthews, he lived in Thayer. I knew about the takeover, but I’d fallen asleep. I think I heard the chaining of the gates, but I thought it was a dream...
...bust came at dawn. The National Guard saw these kids as punks. I don’t know if they were reluctant to do their job. It was terribly sad. I don’t think anyone anticipated that it would end how it ended—no one expected Harvard to call in the state troopers...
...think I became more cynical, seeing who left the building and who stayed until the end. It’s true, many people were very committed to the SDS movement. But it was interesting to see who left University Hall before the bust came. Many of the organizers, the older students left, leaving the freshmen locked in the Yard. Many freshmen were beaten by the police when the bust arrived, long after the organizers had fled...