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...king, some businessmen are high on the idea of giving Mary Jane, the outlaw princess, a legitimate spot on the economic throne. A small but influential cadre of Colombians are campaigning to make the growing of marijuana legal in their own country. The movement is headed by Ernesto Samper Pizano, president of the National Association of Financial Institutions (A.N.I.F.), a well-regarded think tank that has completed an eight-month study on the effects of legalization...
...Samper, a lawyer and economist, contends that if growing had been legal, Colombia last year could have saved the $120 million it spent on trying to stop it and also collected taxes of $168 million on the huge amount of pot, worth an estimated $1.4 billion wholesale, that was smuggled out of the country. Further, Samper calculates that the estimated 30,000 grower families get only 8% of the earnings of the trade; the rest goes to smugglers and middlemen, most of them North Americans. Legalization, says Samper, would both spread the pot wealth better and rid Colombia of much...
...from over. A change of government could disrupt the whole military program. Disaffected Liberals have joined in a leftist opposition movement that will test the Frente Nacional's strength in congressional elections next week. But for the first time in years, the atmosphere is hopeful. Pablo Samper, a Bogota businessman, actually took his wife with him on a recent visit to his 5,000-acre finca in northern Tolima department. "I used to spend the weekends there with my family," he says. "Maybe the time will come again...
Apparently misled, they had missed their target: Justice Minister Hector Charry Samper, a bitter foe of bandits and banditry, who was 140 miles away in Cali...
Julio Ortega-Samper '45 and William W. Dunn '46 acted as the Dunster House bond salesmen. Robert S. Kleinschmidt '47 canvassed all the entries in Lowell House. The Adams House Bond Committee was headed by Knight. In conclusion, Knight stated that the House Committees would not sell any more bonds and stamps until the beginning of the new term in November...The drive was sponsored by the War Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House...