Word: tauro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro commented "it would be very helpful from a judicial point of view to have positive evidence. After two weeks of trial, we have many spot checks but no solid statistics on the effects of marijuana...
...Oteri, the hearing before Judge Tauro is probably the beginning of a long legal trial that could eventually lead to the U.S. Supreme Court. And defendants Joseph D. Leis and Ivan Weiss, both 25-year-old Philadelphians, could become gods in the pantheon of hippiedom...
...Oteri case, which opened Sept. 17, will run three weeks and feature testimony from about 30 expect witnesses, who will file into court one by one and tell Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro that marijuana is no more harmful that cigarettes or alcohol, that it is non-addictive, and that it doesn't lead to crime or the use of stronger drugs...
...Oteri has paraded a series of impressive witnesses before Judge Tauro, like his first star, Dr. Joel Fort of San Francisco, who said that drug use is "pervasive in American Society"--30-50 per cent of the urban college population have used pot. He also said that marijuana is practically college population have used pot. He also said that marijuana is practically harmless and in some cases beneficial...