Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon administration's proposed liberalization of U.S. marijuana laws drew criticisms of "not enough" from nine of nine Harvard Medical School Faculty members interviewed yesterday...
Deputy Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst and Asst. Secretary of the Treasury Eugene Rossides said Thursday that "in a spot check of college campuses, the government found Mexican marijuana almost unavailable at Yale, Harvard, and the University of California...
...nine professors, all of whom have done research in marijuana, concentrated their criticisms on inequities in the present laws, but said that even the Nixon revisions will not cope with the problem. They agreed that it is impossible to formulate a fair law until further marijuana research is conducted...
Nixon's proposed changes will make the first conviction for marijuana possession a misdemeanor rather than a felony, eliminate the two-year mandatory minimum sentence, and reduce the penalty to a one-year maximum jail sentence or $5000 fine. Subsequent convictions still will carry a mandatory minimum jail sentence of five years, and a maximum...
...Lester Grinspoon, associate clinical professor of Psychiatry, said the new proposal represents "a more rational approach to the problem." But he criticized the administration for being "totally oriented toward making criminals of marijuana users...