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University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 1, 1978
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Unproven kit checks paraquat taint in pot
Bv DICK WADE
Staff Writer
Kits for checking paraguay contamination in marijuana can be ordered at local drug paraphernalia stores but are not in stock because the reliability of the test is low.
Paraquat, a sun-activated defoliant used to clear jungle areas during the Vietnam War, was sprayed on Mexican marjuna fields last year as a part of a U.S.-supported effort to cut down on drug traffic across the Mexican-U.S. border.
Jane Kern, owner and manager of White Light Paraphernalia, 704 Massachusetts St., said last week that she would not stock the kits until she had proof they were depen-
"NOT SURE that they 're not a up on"
"some people will pick up on anything to"
"harm them."
one of the companies marketing the kits is Thai Power Inc. of Los Angeles. Its kit consists of a four-ounce package of methylene dichloride, a small bottle of sodium hydrosulphate, a white powder that reacts with paracetamol. The kit contains the highly selectively hydrolyzed chemicals for 40 to 50 tests.
To test the marijuana, one teaspoon of marijuana is mixed in a small glass container with just enough distilled water to cover it. After two minutes, the sodium bicarbonate is stirred in the mixture and the amount of sodium hydroxychloride added.
If the solution turns blue, the marijuana is contaminated, the test instructions say.
JAMES MCHENSNEY, professor of medicinal chemistry, said that sodium hydroxylsulphate would react to parapant that he was not sure whether the test would be correct, so that that the parapant should turn darker as the level of parapant contamination increases.
McChnesny said sodium hydrosulphite was not an uncommon chemical. It is used in photography labs to develop pictures and can be purchased at most camera shops.
George Paley, manager of Bokonom Imports Ltd, 12 E. Eighth St., said he had received a number of requests for the kit and had ordered them. However, he said that because he did not supply the company with the kit, he had not ordered any for stock its kit, he had not ordered any for stock.
Palesy said the kits sold for about $10 and were relatively simple to use. He said smoking paraputain-contaminated marijuana could cause irreversible lung damage.
ACCORDING TO a study by the National Institute of Drug Abuse in Washington, a potential for serious lung damage exists if a smoker consumes three to five non-contaminated marijuana cigarettes a day for one month.
Paraquet contamination also can be tested by a process known as gas chromatography, which is the most reliable and precise test available. Chromatography is the separation of mixtures by percolation through a selectively absorbing medium.
Protesters resume march after sojourn in Lawrence
Staff Writer
BvSUSAN MORGENSTERN
About 300 people who are on a march across the United States to protest pending Congressional legislation will be to leave Lahaina to continue their journey to Washington.
Fern Mathias, who works with finances and public relations for the protest march, said yesterday that the group was headed toward Kansas City.
The group now consists of members of "The Longest Walk," which left California in February, and youths from "The Run for Survival," which left northern Minnesota in
The group wants to defeat 11 bills now in Congress that it says will nullify all treaties between the Indians and the federal government, including fishing rights, abolish tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians on reservations, take away mineral rights from Indian lands, and require for Indian religious
ceremonies and necessary for the survival of the Indian culture.
TO CALL ATTENTION to those bills, about 400 marchers left alcatraz island in California Feb. 11 on The Longest Walk, inspired by the forced Indian marches of the
The marchers reached Perry Lake 12 days ago and camped there until the runners arrived.
The runners arrived Thursday, and the two groups camped at Haskell Indian Junior High.
The runners came through downtown Lawrence Friday afternoon in a peaceful demonstration. Two Indian youths ran ahead of about 20 cars full of supporters for the event.
Mathias said the groups probably would leave Haskell about 8 a.m., today, after a religious ceremony, and continue its walk to Washington. The group hopes to reach Washington in time to persuade Congress to defeat the controversial bills.
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
Iranian protest
Iranian protesters from different parts of Kansas and Missouri met at Sanford Brown Plaza Park, at the corner of Linwood and Brooklyn streets in Kansas City. Mo., during the weekend. They later marched 16 blocks through the streets, chanting and distributing leaflets to the local residents.
Marchers in KC reject oppression
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-About 65 demonstrators, most Iranian students, marched through a predominantly black residential area of Kansas City Saturday to express their feelings of solidarity with oppressed people of the world.
By TOM RAMSTACK
Staff Writer
About 20 of the marchers were University of Kansas students.
A pamphlet distributed by the demonstrators said "U.S. Out of the Middle East—No Arms To The Shab" and "End Racism In America" Power to The Zimbabwe Patriot Front!"
Robert Van Lierop, 39, a former civil rights lawyer who visited South Africa, said at a rally before the march, "You can bet that after the victorious liberation army took control of the city, we'd have efforts to have the most racist elements of the society resettle in the United States.
The pamphlet led the marchers were celebrating May Day "the traditional day of freedom."
"IT'S HAPPENED before when the most racist people in Eastern Europe settled in
Residents of the area stood on their porches and watched as the marchers
Israel after World War II. We already have
encrosses racists here."
An employee of an automotive repair shop said, "I may have a good reason, but I don't
One KU Iranian student named Akbar said of the demonstration, "It won't affect people as much as we want, but it will have some effect."
The Iranian demonstrators wore masks with political slogans written on them and refused to give their full names, saying that they feared political reprisal.
Chandler Wesson, 55, 3334 Prospect St., Kansas City, Mo., said, "Do these people just want to be in a march, or do they really feel this way?"
Cheri Anderson, a spokesman for the demonstrators, said, "Nothing's happened so long in the community. Maybe this will help them be aware and make them realize that they have a responsibility in the world. For example, people don't know there's a beagle going on for 16 years in Eritrea."
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