Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services, and about 35 students informally debated the legalization of marijuana last night...
Reclining comfortably in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room, the students engaged in a lively, general discussion of drugs. Farnsworth himself raised the question of legalization marijuana...
...Because marijuana is non-addictive, Farnsworth declared that "medically, I don't see how we can say it should be interdicted." But on social grounds, he continued, legalization would mean a "move towards our becoming Alan Ginsbergs . . . and a total revolt against society...
From his own observation, Farnsworth said, marijuana takers "are generally a sad lot of people unless they back off from...
...make a dollar," Richard Cone mailed eight packages of marijuana home from Panama. When he returned to Manhattan and picked up his parcel, U.S. customs agents arrested him. Minutes later, while walking to a Government car, Cone confessed; he freely gave evidence that helped earn him a five-year sentence for smuggling narcotics. Later he appealed, basing his argument on the Supreme Court's controversial 1964 decision Escobedo v. Illinois, which ruled that when investigation shifts to accusation, police must tell all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel-and that any confession made without such warning...