Word: duponts
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...news for them. A White House adviser softened the Administration's stand against the abolition of legal penalties for marijuana use. But he suggested that the drug may well have serious effects on a smoker's health. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, Dr. Robert L. DuPont, director of the President's special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, warned that marijuana's effects on the body may be more widespread and persistent than had been previously suspected. His suggestion to those who might be considering trying marijuana...
...idea of decriminalizing marijuana has strong support. Of eight expert witnesses testifying before the subcommittee, seven favored removing criminal penalties for possession or use of the drug. But DuPont, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, testified under instructions not to place the White House imprimatur on such a move. While expressing personal misgivings about the existing criminal penalties for marijuana, he said that any move to lessen the penalties might well be interpreted as a sign that marijuana is safe. That would be unwise, he said, in light of the contents of a 193-page report, Marijuana and Health, compiled...
...conservative portfolio, for example, contained stock in American Telephone & Telegraph, DuPont, Exxon, General Electric, Manufacturers Hanover Corp., and Proctor and Gamble...
...faceoff in the Boston zone, MacLeish snatched the puck from Greg Sheppard and poked it to Andre Dupont just inside the Boston blue line. Dupont got off a drive that glanced off MacLeish's stick and hopped over the stick of Boston goalie Gilles Gilbert into...
Baker ridiculed television advertisements that get us to "walk around smelling like ambulatory branches of the DuPont Corporation" and books on the science of sex, which reassure us that "the most complex of human emotions is no more difficult than installing a new set of Venetian blinds...