Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington's recent effort to seal the Mexican border against marijuana was only the latest indication of the Government's determination to stamp out grass. But even the Administration's most determined gangbuster, Attorney General John Mitchell, cannot accept the anomaly whereby a second conviction for selling marijuana carries four times the potential maximum penalty as manslaughter or some types of sabotage. Nor can Mitchell's legal mind easily tolerate a law that threatens the same punishment to a casual user of marijuana as it does to a wholesale pot peddler. After some initial hesitation...
When Mitchell proposed modification of drug-abuse penalties last spring, conservatives in Congress reacted so negatively that the idea was dropped. Subsequently, the Government came out in support of the present tough penalties for marijuana use. Since then, pressure from Government medical experts as well as private physicians has induced Washington to reconsider once again...
...recommendations fall short of reforms sought by some in the Administration. There would still be no distinction between marijuana and such potent contraband as heroin. But they allow the judge the latitude to grant leniency in marijuana cases. Federal officials say that their proposals are more flexible than drug laws in about 35 states...
...WASHINGTON, D.C.- Possession of marijuana may be reduced to the status of a misdemeanor by a new law proposed yesterday by the Nixon Administration...
...addition, marijuana would be redefined as an "hallucinogenic." It is now considered a "hard drug." along with such others as heroin and cocaine...