Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upheld the right of Los Angeles police to make an arrest and seizure after they entered a narcotics-peddling couple's apartment without a warrant. The cops had "probable cause" to suspect what they would find. Appellants George and Diane Ker stayed in prison for possession of marijuana...
Dean Monro said yesterday that "no good evidence or body of responsible opinion" suggests that as much as 20 per cent of Harvard's students try marijuana before they leave the University...
...letter published in the New York Times, Monro criticized the Times's use of a student estimate that "from one-fifth to one-half of the 12,500 students...at Harvard...will have tried marijuana while in Cambridge...
Monro described the University as "enormously concerned that any one of our students should smoke marijuana, even if only experimentally, for we are well aware of the hazards." And in implying that "Harvard takes a light view...of marijuana," he said, the Times's education editor was "just wrong...
...agree that it is not biochemically addictive, that it does not induce the physiological craving or withdrawal symptoms of such drugs as heroin or cocaine. It affects the user's judgment, and if used daily, will dull a student's initiative and drive, but on the whole, "marijuana is probably less dangerous than alcohol," insists Rand Corp.'s drug expert William McGlothlin. "The dangers have been grossly overrated and the legal penalties are far too severe...