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Civil libertarian advocates
decriminalization of all drugs
United Press International
AUSTIN — Tougher drug laws
only make pushers richer and street
crime worse, said a civil libertarian
who advocates decriminalization of
all drugs, including heroin. He
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maintained the narcotics menace in
Texas will become aggravated, not
alleviated, by proposed remedies.
Harsher laws increase the street
cost of drugs, said John B. Duncan,
executive director of the Texas Civil
Liberties LInion. As a result narco
tics sellers get a better price and
their customers are driven deeper
into crime to pay it.
One half of street crime is drug
associated, he said.
Drug addicts do not have the fi
nancial means to pay for their
habits, which forces them into
street crimes — robberies,
burglaries and muggings. Stiffer
drug penalties only insure increased
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profits for pushers and the increased
flow of illegal drugs into this country,
Duncan said.
“It’s the perfect example of un
regulated free enterprise in an illegal
market,” he said.
“It’s almost the American dream
of making it big and the trouble is
when you catch one person, you’ve
got another standing in line to take
his place.”
Duncan is harshly critical of the
anti-crime package proposed by
Gov. Dolph Briscoe and Speaker
Bill Clayton.
The new law would relax wiretap
restrictions against law enforcement
agencies investigating drug crimes,
permit admission of oral confess-
sions toward prosecutions, cut
parole allowances in gun-related
crimes and restricts inmates from ac
cruing good time toward release.
By interfering with “good time’’
credit, the legislation will cause
riots in the state prison system, said
Duncan, who has worked for the
Texas Civil Liberties Union since
1973 and before that was an
economics professor at Texas Tech
University in Lubbock.
“It will destroy morale in the
Texas Department of Corrections.
Your good time’ credit is the best
discipline prison authorities have to
control prisoners,” he said.
“If you take it away you leave
prison authorities with little more
than ax handles and cattle prods to
maintain discipline,” said Duncan.
Great Britian decriminalized
drug possession and the program is
operating satisfactorily, Duncan
said.
“We need to decriminalize and
start to deal with the addicts as so
cial problems. At least the British
streets are safe and that’s a major
accomplishment,” he said.
The problem only will expand
until the state deals with drug use as
social ill and removes it from the
criminal justice system, he said.
Duncan contends no state has ap
proved an enforceable, workable
law to prevent its citizens from
abusing their bodies.
Duncan is not optimistic about
Texas lawmakers approving a de
criminalization bill this session, or
the next.
“Some day society is going to
have to face up to the fact that the
proposals by the governor and the
speaker do not address Crime, and,
if anything, only aggravate it,” he
said.
The.government —- state and fed
eral — should develop a large scale
drug treatment program similar to
the methadone treatment plan, he
said, which should be a good first
step to eliminating street crime.
Tree surgeon
opens hotel
for sick plants
United Press International
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Leav
ing town and worried about your
plants? Concerned because your del
icate fern and lovely Swedish ivy are
looking peaked?
Take heart. Bob Blakeley’s, Plant
Hotel in this Washington, D.C.
suburb will babysit your begonia or
resuscitate your rhododendron.
Reservations not necessary, rates
reasonable.
“Boarding costs are 25 cents per
plant per day for any type or size of
plant, as long as two men can carry
it, ” said Blakeley. Pickup and deliv
ery are slightly extra.
The U.S. Patent Office says his is
the only business registered as a
plant hotel, and he has copyrighted
the name and is thinking of franchis
ing.
He keeps his hotel guests in one of
several large, sunlit rooms and
makes sure they are properly fed and
watered. Plant lights provide the
closest thing to sunshine during
evenings and regulate exposure for
each plant.
Speakers provide music to glow
by.
Blakeley, a native of Phenix City,
Ala. and a tree surgeon for 18 years,
started the hotel as part of a plant
store he opened last June. He has
had his hands full since: “We took in
1,500 boarders in our first three
months.”
Increasingly, he found himself
nursing sick plants.
“I didn’t start out with any idea of a
plant hospital, but people came in
with sick plants and wanted help,”
he said. So he created a special in
tensive care ward.
Sick plants are separated from
healthy ones, diagnosed and treated.
Treatment may include spraying for
insects or disease, pruning, fertiliz
ing, re-potting. One recent patient
was a seven-foot Norfolk Island pine.
“He kept my sick plant for two
weeks when I went to Florida,” says
Lucy Wallace of Alexandria. “He
talks to them, plays music for them,
and puts them to bed at night. When
I got it back, it was wonderfully
healthy and had grown new shoots.”
Blakeley also rents plants by the
day or week, and arranges “plant
parties.” For a party Blakeley will
arrive with a couple of dozen differ
ent plants, give a brief lecture on
care, then answer questions on
selection and maintenance.
The plants are for sale, and the
host receives free plants and a cash
percentage.