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FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1980
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Senate may toughen laws on pot users
time
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A Senate
itheltj 'ommittee may take a tougher
expoit; tance on criminal penalties for
iiarijuana use now that scientific
ixperts say heavy pot smoking can
Sect the brain, lungs, heart and re-
jroductive systems.
Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Md.,
aid the two days of hearings on
edical effects of the drug, which
nded Thursday, will help the
idiciary Committee decide
hether it needs to take another
look at the marijuana provision in
the criminal code reform bill it ap
proved last year.
The legislation would reduce the
penalty for possession of up to five
ounces under federal jurisdiction
from a one-year prison term and a
$5,000 fine to only a $500 fine and
no prison term.
“Because of the existence of new
scientific knowledge, we re holding
these hearings so that we can review
that very question, ” Mathias said in
an interview.
Asked if the question of “de
criminalizing” marijuana use was
being put on the back burner,
Mathias replied, “It’s on the front
burner; the question is whether we
ought to keep it there.”
Opponents of removing strong
criminal penalties were bolstered by
testimony from Mitchell Rosenthal,
head of the Phoenix House Founda
tion, the nation’s largest residential
program for drug abusers.
He said he has changed his posi
tion from accepting decriminaliza
tion to opposing it after seeing its
effects in New York, where he said
nearly one-third of all seventh and
eighth graders have puffed pot.
“If current trends continue — if
the number of regular users and
daily users continues to increase —
then our nation is well on its way to
acquiring an unmanageable number
of emotionally or intellectually
handicapped individuals,’ Rosent
hal said.
William Pollin, director of the
National Institute on Drug Abuse,
said there are about 15 million regu
lar marijuana users in the United
States. He also said there are more
cancer-causing agents in marijuana
than in tobacco.
One of several parents scheduled
to testify was Joe Hamilton — hus
band of actress Carol Burnett —
who has had four of his 11 children
addicted to drugs.
Two panels, of scientists testified
Wednesday that marijuana use can
affect the human reproductive sys
tem, although more research is
needed to pinpoint the possible
harm.
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.S. Olympic
mss rejects
arter boycott
United Press International
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
■ The executive director of the
, United States Olympic Committee
said Thursday the Carter adminis
tration has no authority to order an
American boycott of tne American
Olympics and that he hoped to lx*
able to tell that to the president
himself.
F. Don Miller, who heads the
huge U.S. Olympic operation, said
even though memlxrs of the admin
istration had indicated the United
States might pull out of the Olym
pics this summer, none of those offi
cials had contacted him.
In addition. Miller left open the
possibility the U.S.O.C. might ig
nore any order by the president that
country not participate in the
summer Games.
“It seems they have done their
communicating through the media,”
said Miller. “Every day I read some
thing new and it is like a bubble in a
waterbed. You push it down here
and it jumps up somewhere else.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
said Tuesday that if the Soviet
Union had not pulled its troops out
of Afghanistan by mid-February the
United States would not take part in
the Olympics. On Wednesday press
secretary Jody Powell said Carter
shared Vance’s view.
The international Olympic char
ter states that a nation’s Olympic
governing body, in this case the
.S.O.C., and not the political
leader of a country makes decisions
concerning a nation’s participation
in the games.
When asked whether he felt Car
ter was “butting in’ on U.S.O.C.
business, Miller replied:
"Yes.”
Does he resent the president’s ac
tions?
“Let’s say I regret it, said Miller,
j “I’m not angry but this raises a ques-
| |on in my mind of the lack of under-
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