Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School has admitted 21 students for the first year of this experimental program--the Public Policy Program. They will be candidates for two new degrees, Master in Public Policy, which they may earn independently or in combination with degrees at the Law and Medical Schools...
...Public Policy Program is directed by an 11-man committee appointed by President Pusey. The committee is chaired by John T. Dunlop, professor of Political Economy, and includes Derek C. Bok, dean of the Law School, and Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School...
...speaking of the value of the program to the Law School, said, "law-years may be seriously hampered in making a contribution in public service unless they possess the ability to understand... the more sophisticated methods of policy analysi
While the A.M.A. was staging its medical symposium on marijuana, President Nixon announced a national drive against narcotics and other drugs rated dangerous. Nixon asked Congress to impose stiff penalties for violations, and to make federal drug-abuse law more consistent. Now the penalty for sale of marijuana is two to ten years in prison for a first offender, while sale of the far more dangerous LSD carries only a maximum one-year term. The Administration asked Congress to set from five to 20 years as the penalty for sale of both drugs. It will also propose a uniform law...
Many medical and legal authorities had hoped that the marijuana penalties would be reduced for two reasons: 1) they are so harsh as to make the law unenforceable, and 2) there is still no conclusive proof that the drug is harmful. The professionals were disappointed. The only softening of the penal code proposed by the Administration was to give federal judges the option of putting a first offender on probation, after which, in case of good behavior, his record could be expunged...