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Wednesday, April 28, 1976
University Dally Kansan
State legislature . . .
From page one
MgCill, said Glover, had apparently substitutes. Senate bill for Glover's bill to be filed with the SEC.
Glover said that his staff hadn't been able to locate his legislation, and that McGill was trying to find him.
"We started out with a real pure bill," he said, "that put possession of two ounces or less of marjuna as something not strictly regulated by the government per se."
Committee amendments in the House, he said, had made possession of small amounts of marijuana a civil offense and possession of over four ounces a Class E felony.
A CLASE E FELONY is punishable by a minimum of one to three years in prison and a maximum of five years in prison and a $5000 fine.
Glover said that the advantage of making possession of small amounts a civil offense would have been that "your name wouldn't go into the big crime computer."
Glover said his bill had "languished in committee in the House, so we tried the Senate—where it got to the floor but was never brought up for consideration.
"The white society says it's the land of the free and the home of the brave in the Bicentennial, but anyone smoking marijuana is still a criminal.
"IT'S RIDICULOUS, a violation of due process."
Glover predicted that marjuna would be in our backpacks to smoke in a couple of ways. One way is to try to have her stop.
Glover said the legislature had discussed marijuana in interim committee hearings, and his views had been supported by a group of activists for the Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws), prosecutors, doctors, lawyers, judges and law school professors.
Vogel said that marijuana would eventually be decriminalized, but that experts disagreed on whether the drug was harmful.
"Some say marijana is harmless"
"Some say, while others it leads to the
invasion."
Booth said that Glover's bill had wasted the Senate's time.
"That's not the way to legislate," Booth said. "Mike couldn't get the bill through the Senate."
BOOOT SAID HE hadn't supported the Glover legislation, which had taken "two to three" of the law.
Booth also agreed that marjiana would "eventually" be decriminalized.
Glover said that the Senate had wasted time because he had considered death penalty legislation.
"It's real interesting," said Glover, "that the House wanted a (death penalty) bill, and the Senate wanted a bill—but the Senate eventually lost the chance to have a bill at all."
"You can either blame the Senate or give the House credit."
VOGEL, CHAIRMAN of the House Agriculture Committee, said his committee had successfully sponsored several pieces of constructive legislation.
Vogel said that the House had passed a pesticide use bill that would toughen state licensing procedures determining who could sell what types of pesticides.
"It's not just a farm problem," he said, since pesticides "have been washed from city rose gardens into sewers into drinking water."
The House had also passed legislation, Vogel said, that would compel soil amendments salesmen to register with the state's Board of Agriculture.
Soil amendments change the chemical composition of farmland.
VOGEL SAID THAT past salesmen of soil amendments had taken advantage of far greater growth potential.
"I'ts consumer legislation," vogu sayi. He said the House had also voted to regulate water, an alkaline calcium compound used for soil improvement.
Glover said that farmers had been hurt by the legislature's decision not to include them under House Bill 2135, a new law that would expand the expansion that creates jobs for Kansans.
Glover said the business expansion law had been designed under "the Republican trickle-down theory, which puts wealth at the top and then lets it drip down to the rest."
Glover criticized the legislature for having failed during the past session to reform the juvenile code and to change the state's gun control laws.
GLOVER SAID THAT the legislature hadn't established a 24-hour waiting period between buying and receiving guns, which has been called the National Rifle Association) says is O.K.
"It's dishardering," he said. "The House is reactionary on law and order. The folks back home are scared of crime, and rightly so."
Accompilations of the legislature,
Cooper said, were in the area of women's rights.
Women's rights had been strengthened, he said, by new laws on rape, limiting use of a woman's past sexual history in rape trials, and on consortium, giving married men the same sexual responsibilities in marriage as women.
Glover said that the legislature fortunately had not rescinded the Equal Rights Amendment, and that it had authorized an affirmative action program at the bureaus practiced sexual discrimination.
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Booth also said he was pleased with the senator's decision to monitor its medical treatment.
"We got the best damn bills in committee," he said, "since legislators do less playing to the galleries there than they do on the floor."
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Booth said that closed Republican caucuses, whose constitutionality has been challenged in the past by journalists, were "not really relevant" and paying to the galleries (trying for publicity).
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