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Hoping to anticipate the problem, some parents try to scare their children with lurid stories about drug addiction and highly pertinent reminders that mere possession of marijuana constitutes a felony. But teen-agers tend to regard the supposedly inevitable progression from pot to heroin as myth, and they scorn the marijuana laws as hypocritical. At the other extreme are a few parents who introduce their children to pot in the home in the same way that countless parents start their children drinking. One San Francisco attorney turns on all three of his children, including his six-year-old. Still other...
...been in the company of known addicts, but Officer Martin had not seen or heard anything else suspicious. Nonetheless, he approached the suspect and told him: "You know what I am after." The suspect reached into his pocket and so, simultaneously, did Martin. The policeman grabbed a packet of heroin. In reversing the resulting narcotics conviction, the court ruled that Martin did not have a good reason to stop the man; merely being in the company of known addicts is not sufficiently suspicious. Also, the frisk was illegal. None of the facts should have prompted a "reasonable fear of life...
...subject of a 1964 Supreme Court ruling on a defendant's right to counsel, was sentenced in Chicago to two concurrent 20-year terms for selling marijuana. It was the second narcotics conviction for Danny in three months: last February, he was sentenced to 22 years for selling heroin. And next week he faces a charge of robbery. Escobedo is appealing the February narcotics rap on the ground that tape recordings introduced into evidence constituted unconstitutional eavesdropping...
What of the fears that marijuana use will inevitably create an appetite for more dangerous drugs? Even marijuana's defenders concede that most heroin addicts and LSD users have tried marijuana first, but they deny there is a cause-and-effect relationship. Most likely, they say, the disturbed individual seeking to escape will start with alcohol or the cheapest and most readily available drug, which happens to be pot. If he later takes to heroin, he would eventually have done so anyway...
...known hard-drug addicts, said Giordano, increased from 59,720 in 1966 to 62,045 at the end of 1967, or 3%. Moreover, the number of new addicts detected rose only from 6,047 to 6,417. If only one in a hundred of the potheads had switched to heroin last year, the increase would have been far greater...