—The Daily Collegian Friday, April 8, 1977
National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws
President Keith Stroup told an
Eisenhower Auditorium
Soviets use garage entrance;
arms talks secretly resume
WASHINGTON (UPI)
The United States and the
Soviet Union quietly resumed
discussion of strategic arms
issues yesterday, with the
Soviet envoy using the State
Department's garage en
trance..
In an unannounced, un
-Ipublicized meeting,
AmbassAdor Anatoli
Dobrynin met with Secretary
of State Cyrus Vance atState
yesterday morning.
The, appointment did not
appear on Vance's list of
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"Well, Quixote and I are almost finished helping you fix-up this swell apart
ment." said Rutherford to his friend Ferdinand, who was watching the work
critically. Ferdinand wasn't exactly pleased as Rutherford and Quixote weren't
exactly professional fixer-upers.
"I'm afraid you boys had good intentions, but didn't do the job the way I
wanted." said Ferdinand. "You've just papered the window! ... So I can't
pay you as much as I thought."
"That does it," said Quixote to Rutherford. "It's over! We can't make money
in State College. I give up."
"No Quixote, don't give up yet." Rutherford replied to his friend. "There is an
easy way to make money in State College - there must be. I'll ask my cousin
Jose. He's a successful businessman. He'll know."
(What will he say, this cousin Jose? Quixote is on the verge ,of a nervous
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that there is an easy way to make money in State College. But what could it
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audience that legislators'
'basic concept about mari
juana must be changed.
visitors
It was the first high-level
U.S.-Soviet meeting since the
breakdown of last, week's
Moscow talks on a second
stage Strategic Arms
Limitation Treaty. The
Soviets then rejected both
U.S. proposals and both sides
-laundhed intensive publicity The Daily Collegian
campaigns in behalf of their inadvertently omitted the
own positions. Association for Women
Of yesterday's renewed Students from a list of organ
talks, State Department izations conducting' a poll.
spokesman Hodding Carter itical survey in Wednesday's
111 said, "I'm not going to Women United article.
RUTHERFORD
Et FRIENDS
calls
Legislators must be educated about the truth of marijuna if
efforts to decriminalize it are going to be successful, the
director of the National Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws (NORML) said here last night.
Legislators have a distorted view of marijuana because the
drug was identified with the radicals of the 1960'5, Keith
Stroup said at Eisenhower Auditorium last night.
"Legislators are concerned that if marijuana is ,
decriminalized, the amount of users would increase
significantly;" Stroup said. "The data and evidence we have
experienced so far shows evidence to the contrary."
House Bill 592, a Pennsylvania bill now in the health and
welfare committee, is NORML's latest effort to get marijuana
decriminalized, Stroup said. Pennsylvania was chosen as a
target state because it had the second highest number of
arrests for possession of marijuana in the country, , he said.
The Pennsylvania bill is a modified version of
decriminalization, Stroup said. Offenders simply will be fined
up to $lOO for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana or
eight grams of hashish.
Similar decriminalization; bills have been passed in eight
other states since NORML got underway in 1970, Stroup.said.
Oregon was the first state to make the penalty for possession
similar to a parking ticket offense, and California soon
followed, he added.
The number of smokers in these states has increased only 3
per cent since the criminal penalties were removed, Stroup
said. Similar results are expected in Pennsylvania if
marijuana is decriminalized, he said.
"It costs $lO million a year to arrest and prosecute the nine
or 10 thousand people in Pennsylvania alone who are arrested
give you a detailed list of the
topics discussed, but it is
logical to assume that the
arms talks were included."
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By DAN BURNETT
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Correction
lobbyist group head
pot usage NORML
Hi-fi talks given
Stereo equipment and A poorly-designed cabinet
stereo usage 'were can greatly reduce sound
discussed Wednesday night quality, he said.
in the HUB Assembly Jiri Tichy, professor of
Room. architectural engineering
Dave Carlson, graduate said a showroom cannot
student in acoustics, said properly simulate a home
"Listening is the ultimate situation, and this is an
test." He said potential important consideration.
stereo buyers should listen Tichy said speaker
to as many' stereos as positioning determines if
possible before buying one, 'the listener receives direct
and the stereo ' most or reverberant sound. If
pleasing to the buyer the listener sits close to the
should be chosen. speaker, Tichy said, he
Carlson said, stereo receives the direct energy
cabinet design is an im- - which determines sound
portant factor to consider. quality.
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for possession of marijuana," Stroup said. "In simple
economics, this money could be used much more effectively to
fight real criminals."
Stroup said citizens must demonstrate to their state
legislators by writing letters that they are in favor of
decriminalization. Legislators will respond if the constituents
voice their opinions, he added.
"The people in this country have moved faster. on the
marijuana issue than the legislatures have, and there is
evidence to support this. A recent survey showed that 80 per
cent of Americans favor decriminalization of marijuana,"
Stroup said.
However, people should never try to convince legislators
that marijuana' is a good thing because this approach will
backfire, Stroup said. Reformers should try to convince them
that marijuana smokers are normal people, not criminals, he
said.
Stroup said he does not favor complete legalization of
marijuana. The answer is complete decriminalization and
allowing people to grow their own marijuana plants, he said.
"The sale of marijuana is a $4 million yearly market,"
Stroup said. "I would not look favorably to Madison Avenue
doing to marijuana what it did to tobacco and liquor, and that
would most likely occur if it was legalized."
The Nixon and Mitchell Act of 1970, which classified
marijuana with heroin, was a political move to show the public
its leaders were against radicals, Stroup said. This category
prohibits the use of marijuana for medical use, he said.
It was recently discovered by a teacher in Washington, D.C.
that smoking marijuana relieved his glaucoma, the second
leading cause of blindness in the United States, Stroup said.
Stroup added that others who may benefit from a medical
,standpoint by smoking marijuana are not able to obtain it.
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One group'may disband
Regional groups to convene
The Centre ' Regional
Planning Commission and the
Regional Counsciousness
Raising , Group have planned
a joint meeting to be held
April 26 to discuss the group's
function and validity.
Karen Shaw, chairman of
the group, said at the Centre
Regional Planning Com
mission's meeting last night,
that no one wanted to be
chairman of the group and
several members had
discussed disbanding because
none of their recom
mendations were followed.
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Iran earthquake'
damage severe
TEHRAN, Iran (UPI)
Earthquakes shook vast
areas of southern Iran
Wednesday night and
yesterday in a series of
tremors. Government
broadcasts said at least 100
persons were killed and
heavy damage inflicted.
The Iranian government
broadcasting services said
the lastest official count
was 100 dead and
specillated it could reach
600.
The strongest shock hit
central Iran Wednesday
night, registering 6.5 on the
open-ended Richter scale
and apparently causing
major damage and
casualties in tribal villages
80 miles southwest of Ish
fahan.
A quake of 5.5 intensity
Thursday hit the Bushehr
area, 765 miles south of
Tehran, and a lighter
tremor registering ,an
intensity of 4 shook Shiraz,
600 miles south of the
capital. Reports from
surrounding villages were
yet to come in.
The group's function, purpose and to see if it should
although it cannot act in a be dislianded.
legal Capacity, is to make In other business, the
recommendations about commission passed on a
planning and land-use policies resolution to the Council of
in the Centre Region. Shaw Governmehts ' concerning
said that in her three years as recommendations on the .
chairman, no recom- State Land Use Policy.
mendations the group made
had been accepted. She also The Office of State Planning
said the group was no longer ' and Development is seeking
sure of its function. public response to a set of
John Miller, chairman of policies designed to increase
the Centre Regional Planning the state's role in land use
Commission, suggested the planning, and the commission
joint meeting be held on April staff members have made
26, so that the group could get ' recommendations on those
a clearer definition of its policies.
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