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While smokers during the 70's were hanging out using bongs and listening to the Allman Brothers, Stroup was creating an organization to prevent the arbitrary labeling of these smokers as criminals. Funded by public interest groups such as the Playboy Foundation and by secondary components of the multi-billion-dollar marijuana industry such as paraphernalia manufacturers and High Times Magazine, Stroup was able to put together model decriminalization legislation sponsor objective scientific studies and provide pro bono legal aid to the victims of some of the crueler dope laws in the United States, victims like Frank Demolli...
Even strict worker-conduct rules win wide support. For example, alcohol is banned at company lunches, and male employees are forbidden to wear long sideburns or beards. When a stewardess was fired for posing out of uniform in a Playboy picture layout last year, one offended colleague observed: ''The company was justified." Despite such rigorous standards, Delta has a stunning 250,000 job applications on file...
Reserves of another sort gave him trouble even early on. "In one way, I was always hip," Lennon remarked recently in Playboy, during an interview that could stand as lively proof that some of the best Lennon/Ono art was their life. "I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see. I was always seeing things in a hallucinatory way." Lennon's songs made peace with those hallucinations and expanded them -whether with psychedelics, psyschiatry or a sort...
...books. But in a public school system, you have to have reasonable procedures to determine what is to be used, and the superintendent has to uphold them." Montgomery County has approved Aristotle's Poetics only for senior honor students. Asked Andrews: "What if a teacher decided to use Playboy or Hustler? I think the school system has an obligation to set standards and to set curriculum...
Lang concedes that the school system's concern for its authority is important. But he was not teaching Hustler or Playboy. Lang believes that his rights and responsibilities as a teacher take precedence in this case. If the seven-member Montgomery County school board agrees with him, Lang could be reinstated in January, although he will no doubt be assigned to a different school after so much controversy. A decision against him could mean five months without pay. If that happens Lang plans to fight in the courts, if necessary, for reinstatement. "I made a premeditated, intellectual decision...