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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1979 Page 3 Crowd at debate favors legal By PEGGY C. McCULLEN Battalion Reporter What was labeled a debate turned into a description of two sides in a multifaceted issue. Thursday night’s MSC Great Issues program, “Marijuana: What’s the Crime?”, examined decriminalization of marijuana and legalizing its use. R. Keith Stroup, founder and chairman of the board for NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), supported liberalizing existing laws. They can put a man in prison for smoking a joint when a man who kills his wife while intoxicated is put on probation, he said. Dr. Robert C. Petersen, assistant director of the Division of Re search of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, opposed legalizing the use of marijuana because it is harmful to health. Stroup said he is a daily pot smoker. “I’ve been a pot smoker for 10 years and I’m tired of being treated like a criminal, ” he said. “When some 43 million people in the United States smoke marijuana, you’re a pervert of a sort if you don’t smoke. “The legal system hasn’t caught up with the social system,” he said. Stroup said the government’s “excuse” for keeping pot illegal is protecting people’s health. “I’ve been arrested twice and not once did they send a doctor in to check my health,” he said. Petersen, speaking as a private individual and not as a federal government representative, said researchers are just beginning to know the parameters of smoking pot. He said that before it is legalized, more research should be com pleted. In the meantime, he said, the use of marijuana as a legally available intoxicant should be discouraged. Keith Stroup Fiedler might go to China United Press International BOSTON — Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa has invited recuperating Boston Pops maestro Arthur Fiedler to join the orchestra on its tour of China in March. Ozawa has asked his 84-year-old mustachioed colleague to share his baton at concerts in Peking or Shanghai, but whether or not Fiedler accepts will be decided by his doctors. The popular white-haired maes tro is recovering at his suburban Brookline home from brain surgery he underwent last month to relieve difficulty he was having walking. His recovery is progressing on schedule, his doctors said, but a de cision has not been made on the China trip. The Boston Symphony Orchestra will be the first American orchestra to perform in China since diploma tic relations were established Jan. 1. The trip is slated for March 12-20. ^ROMETS to sponsor ar games in MSC today By JULIE SMILEY Battlion Reporter Beware of army tanks, flying balls lire and medieval armor—or at scale rpodels and imaginings of Jlike—today through Sunday in [Memorial Student Center. Warcon V is the fifth annual war ames convention sponsored by |ies Replication Offering Mili- )enver judge oke adds life; 1 early ■; ome jj 1 United Press International frac- I 'ENVER — It was going to be usness. : il, but District Judge Susan counts a nes still said a defense lawyer’s ei uest for her to snort some aine was out of line. Attorney Jonathan Olom, defend- ig Richard Schwartz against ng >g 'omen's not to Senate ,t work, sident’s ne jukemis urge by is beint said be y return xico las ! tments. tary, Economic and Tactical Situa tions (GROMETS) through the MSC Recreation Committee. Regis tration begins at noon today in Room 140 of the MSC for anyone in terested in war games. Ed Tatom, a senior pre-med stu dent fromn Pasadena and Warcon V chairman, said he expects about 200 people from Texas, Louisiana and doesn’t think declines snort charges of possessing and conspiring to sell cocaine, requested the judge to sample the drug to verify it is not a narcotic. Judge Barnes declined the motion and said despite the lawful use of the drug, a judge must avoid mat ters of personal experience to make fair decisions. Oklahoma to attend. Warcon V tournaments begin tonight and con tinue until award presentations Sunday at 3 p.m. A war game is a game based on wars which have been fought, or wars that will be fought according to players’ imagination and creativity. Players can use balls of fire, old guns and ships, or Star Wars-type equipment to fight imaginary bat tles. 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