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...Most parents won't defend a drug user?until he's their son," says Stanford University Psychologist Jean Paul Smith. However, the experts have become increasingly concerned over excessive drug penalties. Dr. Roger Egeberg, the Nixon-appointed Assistant Secretary of HEW for Health and Scientific Affairs, says that the laws governing marijuana "are completely out of proportion" to the dangers of the drug. Declared the Mental Health Institute's Dr. Yolles in his testimony last week: "I know of no clearer instance in which the punishment for an infraction of the law is more harmful than the crime...
However, the time for a choice is already past, argues a growing band of responsible advocates of legalization, among them Psychiatrist Mikuriya and Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan. They do not argue that marijuana is harmless, and they are seriously concerned that the open sale of pot would almost certainly increase its use and abuse, producing greater numbers of "pot lushes" and even pot skid rows. They defend ultimate legalization only because they believe that its probable costs to society are outweighed by the disadvantages of continued prohibition. They point out that as long as marijuana is forbidden it will...
Obviously the ultimate decision on pot is a long way off. Meanwhile there is a growing consensus that mere law enforcement is wholly inadequate to the problems of drug abuse. Medical and psychological treatment needs to be improved and greatly expanded. The nation must also find new paths to prevention, cultivate social patterns that will encourage wise use of drugs?and eventually forestall the development of the drug-dependent personality...
...took acid, I told my parents I had dropped [taken it]. They got really really uptight and said acid could make you go insane. But at least they didn't care about grass any more. They're just worried about grass because it's against the law. They never threatened to call the heat [police] or anything. They never even told me never to use drugs again. They just said: "Not in the house...
PARKINSON'S LAW. The FTC has been doing steadily less work with more people. In fiscal 1962, the commission opened 1,795 formal investigations of suspected business abuses. Last year it opened only 611. "We are perplexed by the magnitude of the reduction," said the A.B.A. study. The FTC staff increased from 1,126 to 1,230 between...