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...MARTY KAPLAN is a nice...
...Note: Martin H. Kaplan '71 is president of the Harvard Lampoon, a humor magazine...
...these semi-illicit gatherings we attracted such figures as Ramsey Clark, Dr. John Knowles, Norman Mailer, FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, Congressman Morris Udall, Justin Kaplan, literary agent Sterling Lord, Roger Wilkins, William Styron,Professor Howard Zinn of Boston University, and Harvard professors, including Wald, Galbraith, and Riesman. We hosted correspondents fresh from Vietnam, blacks representing all degrees of militancy, students of varied ideological stripes, urbanologists, magazine editors, former ambassadors, and a gaggle of ex-aides to Presidents. These provided the most valuable experiences of the Nieman season and revealed, I think, what the program might become in the hands...
Vain Hypocrisy. The Kaplan plan is not without its problems. How strong should legalized pot be, for example? Would politicians campaign on pot platforms, wooing the 18-year-old vote with pledges of higher potency? Could legislators resist pressures from licensed pot producers demanding permission to advertise? Although agreeing with Kaplan, University of Texas Law Professor Michael Rosenthal notes that adopting Kaplan's proposal might be something of a gamble. If pot-control efforts were not at least as strong as those now being used to discourage cigarettes, the nation could be trading its current law-enforcement problem...
Whatever the possible drawbacks of licensing, Kaplan feels that it would be vastly more honest than the present system, which he finds riddled with the same hidden hypocrisy that undermined Prohibition. Kaplan cites a recent historical study, which found that the Volstead Act "resulted largely from pressure by white rural Protestants to have made illegal a practice that they associated primarily with urban Roman Catholics." It was a way of censuring not only drinking behavior but an "entire lifestyle, including Catholicism." In the same way, Kaplan charges, marijuana bans are vain expressions of opposition to the youth culture, and they...