Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dearly adore logic such as that expressed in "Grass Grows More Acceptable" by Florida Circuit Court Judge Edward Cowart: "Authorities say they have yet to find someone on the hard stuff who didn't start with marijuana" [Sept...
Local Muscular Dystrophy Chairman Ron Bauldree opened the bag and found ten bundles of mostly $20 and $100 bills. Attached was a note: "$10,000 for M.D. collected by the Gainesville Marijuana Dealers Association. Right...
...stunned Bauldree summoned police, who determined that the money had not been stolen. So it was sent to the headquarters of the muscular dystrophy campaign. As to the identity of the donors, Sun Bank Vice President Jim Johnson declared: "It could be local marijuana dealers who just wanted to do something nice. From what I hear, giving $10,000 certainly wouldn't hurt them financially." There is, of course, no official Gainesville Marijuana Dealers Association-at least not yet. But as pot smoking becomes increasingly accepted (TIME, Sept. 10), a new breed of long-haired millionaire philanthropists...
California legislators voted last year to reduce marijuana possession to a misdemeanor, but Governor Ronald Reagan vetoed the bill. State law now offers a range of penalties for first-offense pot possession from probation to a ten-year jail term. The nation's harshest drug law is New York's, making life sentences mandatory for some hard-drug offenses but leaving marijuana possession punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony. State police officials say that enforcement will be minimal against pot smokers. Prosecution of pushers in New York, as in all other states, will remain...
...believe that they are at the threshold of success. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark will soon file a NORML suit in Washington federal district court arguing that the capital's pot-possession laws are unconstitutional. A favorable decision there would add credence to Stroup's prediction that marijuana may be legal nationwide...