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Sen. Charles M.C. Mathias (RMd.), who led the hearings, said yesterday witnesses had presented definite evidence during the hearing that marijuana was harmful to the brain, the lungs, and the reproductive system.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) was not invited to testify for the hearings because "the purpose of the hearings was to bring out the medical and biological effects, not to discuss decriminalization," Charlie Borden, a Mathias aide, said yesterday.
But Georgia's own Democratic Senator Sam Nunn echoes the message. The world has moved, and Nunn believes the U.S. lacks "a SALT philosophy" in a tune when events seem to be slipping out of our grasp. Republican Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. sat on one of his Maryland...
--Sen. Charles Mathias (R-Md.) has called upon the Senate Judiciary Committee to be more precise in its questioning of presidential nominees for federal judgeships.
In a letter to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). who is set to become the committee chairman when the next session of Congress meets, Mathias outlined questioning that would seek to learn more about the nominees' experience in the legal profession, possible conflicts of interest and the process...