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THE BATTALION MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1978 Page 7 -v ppy 'feat Arkansail by Lee Roy Le* Chicken You.., lar $4.95 Dan Eat” Chicken ancer patient o get legal pot United Press International _ LAS CRUCES, \. M. — A New Mexico State University graduate student expects later this week to begin receiving legal supplies of marijuana to ease the side effects of cancer chemotherapy treatments. ■ Dick Lohse, 31, is one of four persons declared eligible to receive the marijuana under the pioneer New Mexico program approved last year. I He has undergone one major and two minor operations for cancer, and says the chemotherapy treatments make him severely ill. ■ 'There are two stages to the nausea, he said. It s not only phy si cal. hut also mental. B Tf y ou aren't dead, you wish y ou were. You just want to be left alone. You sort of shrink up into a shell and wither away . ■ The first shipment of 1,056 capsules containing concentrated tet rahydrocannabinol, the active ingredient in marijuana, arrived in the state last week. State officials said delivery of marijuana cigarettes is expected in about two weeks. ■ The drug was ordered both as capsules and as cigarettes so patients who are approved by the Patient Qualification Review Board can choose the form most agreeable to them, officials said. The drug will he distributed by a pharmacy in Albuquerque. ■ Lohse, one of two Las Cruces area patients who will join two Albuquerque patients in the pioneer program, said he expects to obtain the capsules by Tuesday or Wednesday. ■ Officials said the drug is being supplied by the National Institute for Drug Abuse, which grows the marijuana at a research station in Mississippi K New Mexico is the first state to gain federal approval to use the di ng and the 1978 Legislature enacted a statute authorizing a state gkency to set up conditions for its issuance. B Legislatures in Louisiana, Florida, and Illinois have approved simi- hlr programs, but federal officials have not yet endorsed those pro grams, State Department of Health and Environment spokesman Rarty Spitz said. ■ Two other states, California and Colorado, arc currently consider- iiig legislation on the same subject, he added. ■ Spitz said state officials are still awaiting approval by federal au thorities on a program to use the drug to treat intraocular pressure experienced by persons suffering from glaucoma, an ey e disease. TEXAS MOBILE HOME OUTLET ew '79 Models coming in DAILY ;.29th. New 14 ft. wide area 2 bedrooms Furnished Air conditioned Delivered 13194 monthly i Jewelifl it 23, 24,2 s ve (next* RECORD COLLECTION 33 Vs SALE All Albums & tapes Va off list price All Albums & tapes Va off list price All Albums & tapes Va off list price All Albums & tapes Va off list price All Albums & tapes Va off list price All Albums & tapes Va off list price All Albums & tapes Va off list price All Albums & tapes Va off list price All Albums Sc tapes Va off list price All Albums Sc tapes Va off list price All Albums Sc tapes Va off list price All Albums Sc tapes Va off list price AH Albums Sc tapes Va off list price All Albums Sc tapes Va off list price Sale Runs Through Wednesday, Jan. 31 P.r€:<3(QftG>j Remember Watergate? Nixon returns to Capitol United Press International WASHINGTON — John Mitch ell leaves prison on a winter morn ing. Richard Nixon returns to the White House in a blaze of chan deliers and photo flashes. Watergate is over. The jails hold no more of the 21 men who went from Nixon's White House or his re-election campaign into prison for the bewildering web of break-ins, cover-ups and related crimes America simply calls "Watergate. Sam Ervin, the Bible-quoting North Carolina Democrat who ran the Senate Watergate hearings, pops up occasionally in TV ads boosting a credit card. "Do you know me?” he asks. Many probably don t. Watergate Judge John Sirica is in retirement, nursing a delicate heart and writing his autobiography . Spe cial prosecutor Leon Jaworski is back in private practice after run ning Congress’ Korean bribery probe. And Nixon himself — driven from office under threat of impeachment and pardoned by Gerald Ford is blossoming back into public life in.a kind of American version of what the Russians used to call "rehabilita tion. Time has treated some Watergate principals with an ironic hand — as illustrated in the Washington re- emergence of Nixon and his old comrade-in-arms, John Mitchell, the former $300,()00-a-year New York lawyer and U.S. attorney gen eral. Defending his invitation to Ni xon, Carter suggested it is time the nation put Watergate behind it — in Nixon's old phrase — and start tak ing the long view of the ousted pres ident s accomplishments as a statesman in opening America s door to China. ^ggietand^^s GRAND OPENING with every purchase get a free t-shirt . over 50 t-shirts to be given away GRAND PRIZE 1 shirt/month/yr. COME ON OVER AND CHECK US OUT CULPEPPER PLAZA 693-0618 TRAVEL TRAVEL ’79 MARDI GRAS TRIP — celebrate Fat Tuesday in New Orleans Feb. 23-25, 1979, for $58. Sign up Jan. 24 with $25 deposit. 'SNOW SKIING at WOLF CREEK — for $235 get round trip trans portation, five days of lift tickets, family-style lodging with breakfast and dinner every day. (March 9-16). Sing up Jan. 25 with $50 deposit. ‘SNOW SKIING at TAOS — spend March 9-16 on the slopes. Round trip transportation, motel-type lodging and six days of lift tickets are included in trip price - $230. Sign up Jan. 25 with $50 deposit. ‘SAIL THE FLORIDA KEYS — an educational experience on the high seas. Learn to sail the square rigger used in the movie “Roots” (March 9-16, $420). Sign up Jan. 17 with $100 deposit. EUROPEAN TOURS — May 14 - June 7, see Europe. Grand Tour of England, Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and France for $946. The Iberian Tour of Spain, Morocco, Portugal and England for $1075. Add $379 airfare to the price of either option for the cost of the trips. Sign up Jan. 23 with $100 deposit. ‘MEXICO TRIP — celebrate the end of school May 11-18. Drink, dance and lie in the sun in Acapulco for $295. Sign up Jan. 23 with $75 deposit. P.S. Transportation rates are subject to change which may af fect any trip price. 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