Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After six months of preparation, Lawyer Joseph Oteri began in September the most thoroughgoing legal attack on antimarijuana laws ever made. In seeking to have Massachusetts' marijuana statutes declared unconstitutional, Oteri and ten expert witnesses from...
...classroom presentation at San Fernando Valley State College this month earned him an "outstanding teacher" award over 9,000 of his colleagues in the California state colleges. Shortly before he won the award, however, Yablonsky-who is now studying the hippie movement-was subpoenaed to testify at the marijuana trial of a friendly flower child. On the stand, Yablonsky pleaded possible self-incrimination and refused to answer nine questions aimed at discovering whether he had observed anyone smoking...
...very strongly that a sociologist should be able to study a social problem without fear of being guilty of illegal behavior." In his book on tne hippies, to be published in March, Yablonsky not only admits that he observed drug use and sales, but describes his own experiment with marijuana and a harrowing LSD trip he and his wife took together-all illegal activities. The trip, Yablonsky contends, gave him "invaluable perspective" on the drug. Throughout his research, Yablonsky says, he found the possibility of arrest or being forced to reveal sources a "constant source of concern, anxiety and fear...
Tauro agreed that "marijuana does not cause physical addiction as does heroin or other hard narcotics," but said "there was ample and compelling testimony that its use causes psychological dependence...
...declining to overturn the convictions of two men who had been arrested attempting to pick up a trunk full of marijuana last summer, Superior Court Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro declared, "In my opinion a proper inference may be draw from the evidence that there is a relationship between the use of marijuana and the incidence of crime and antisocial behavior...