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...before Congress, sponsored by Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd, which would 1) severely limit interstate mail-order handgun shipments; 2) limit the inflow of military-surplus firearms from abroad; 3) ban over-the-counter handgun sales to out-of-state buyers and anybody under 21; and 4) prohibit longarm sales to persons under 18. Invoking the "shocking tragedy" in Austin, President Johnson urged speedy passage "to help prevent the wrong persons from obtaining firearms." Of course, recognizing the "wrong person" is not always possible; Whitman would probably have qualified for his guns even under strict controls...
...although California and Nevada have since passed such statutes. Restrictive legislation, say Administration officials, would only cut off the supply for legitimate research. (This has already partially happened because of LSD's notoriety.) Besides, it is argued, the situation can be handled by merely sharpening existing rules, to prohibit the unregistered manufacture, traffic and sale of LSD and its basic ingredient, lysergic acid...
Nevada and California became, on Monday, the first states to legislate against the use of LSD. Both states allow LSD to be employed in scientific research or in supervised medical care, but prohibit unlicensed manufacture, general sale, or possession of the drug...
...squeeze out several million dollars a year in additional revenue by making their real estate assessments, now generally unrealistic, conform to true values. The 17 states that still have no income tax have an obvious source of added funds. In 15 states, changes could be made in constitutions that prohibit local communities from investing their idle cash, an archaism that costs them as much as $100 million a year in lost interest. And, of course, there are less conventional sources of cash: New Hampshire pans more than $2,500,000 a year from its sweepstakes...
Miss Bieberman repeatedly points out to her readers that the new federal law, the Drug Abuse Control Amendments of 1965, does not prohibit the possession of any drug for one's personal use. The law, she says, merely restricts the manufacture and distribution of certain drugs. She offers her readers a Xeroxed copy of the DACA for a dollar, and urges them to buy the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act from Washington...