Wednesday, March 8, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Marijuana conflict stirs passions in campus debate
By LINDA FINESTONF
Staff Writer
A conflict that has hampered past debates of whether marijuana use is a medical or a legal problem last night again proved to be an obstacle in another debate on the subject.
State Rep. Michael Glover, D-Lawrence, and Harold Voth, a senior staff psychiatrist at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, presented their views on marijuana reform at a debate in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Glover, who introduced a bill to the Kansas Legislature this session proposing decriminalization of marijuana said martiura was a legal problem.
"The proper response of the criminal
force system is not to either"
"force the problem"
"or give the." Glover said
What the Legislature should be addressing, Glover told a 100-member audience, is whether individuals arrested and convicted for possession or sale of marijuana should have to face a possible jail term as punishment for their crime.
THE PROPER response of the criminal justice system, should not be the threat of a police officer.
The proposed bill, which is now under consideration by the Kansas Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, proposes a fine of $100 or less for the first two offences that involve an assault on one ounce of the offenses. The offenses would be classified memeanears.
The Kansas House passed the bill but the Senate amended the bill to punish by firn-
only one offense and has sent the bill back to the Senate committee.
Current state penalty provides for a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a fine.
"I think we should distinguish between the harassment of jail and the issuance of a bail."
If the proposed bill passes, Glover said, the important difference in the law would be that it would require a minimum of $20 million.
GLOVER SAID he thought that decriminalization would not prevent the use of marijuana.
However, Voth said he thought that such laws would be a sign to the public enlightenment.
"If you weaken the laws, you will turn on a green light," he said.
Vast testified last month before Kansas Senate hearings against the proposed decriminalization legislation. He also testified last year before the House against similar legislation that had been introduced by Glover.
Last year's bill was killed by the Legislature.
Voth said he based his opposition to marijuana reform on the effects that he had seen in his patients. Voth is also a surgeon and advised to the Surgeon General of the Navy.
"THE HEALTH ISSUE is the issue in which the whole thing must be understood," Voth said. He offered evidence to support his claim that marijuana use was physically harmful.
Voth cited the results of various studies, including some that he said proved marjuanja use in reduced sperm count in males and cause brain damage.
Voth said other studies showed that marijuana use affected behavior. He said such studies indicated tht marijuana use resulted in such problems as thought memory and attention ability to remember detail and disdain for persons of authority, particularly parents.
HOWEVER, GLOVER said such studies were inconclusive and had been proven to be false.
Since 1970, Glover said, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has appropriated money for research on marijuana use. He said HEW had found such tests as those cited by Voth to be scientifically invalid.
"I kind of tire of this medical snowblowing back and forth," Flover said.
Even if it was determined that the results of the studies were unquestionably true, he said, those results would not warrant strict punishment.
but voth, who also is the author of a book,
"The Castred Family," said he was concerned that liberalization of laws also affected the lives of many of the individual in the family and in society.
"Kids, you've got to wake up to what's happening to you," Voth said. "With the family just coming apart at the seams, people are going to have enough trouble without zoning themselves with drugs all the time."
Kansas House approves retirement date changes
TOPEKA (AP) - A move to end compulsory retirement for state employees was approved yesterday by the Kansas House. The change would not affect school person-
The action came on an amendment proposed by Speaker John Carlin D-Smolan.
Under the amendment, the normal retirement date for members of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System would remain 65. Retirement would still become compulsory when age 70 is reached, and employees who are required to retire at 65.
The proposal was added to a bill designed to revise state personnel procedures. That bill was the outgrowth of an intersession study by a special committee.
THE INTERIM panel, in turn, drew on the recommendations of the Personnel Management System Study Group, created in 1976 by the secretary of administration.
The House also tentatively approved a bill to create a division of adult care home licensing within the Department of Health and Environment. The new division would be headed by a director of adult care home licensure.
The House also advanced to a final vote today a bill that would establish Kansas Corporation Commission jurisdiction over the proposed West Texas oil gasification plant. The proposed Wyetha coal gasification plant.
Existing law requires electric power utilities to obtain a corporation commission permit to begin site preparation for, or construction of, an electric generation facility
To celebrate the switch from a monophonic station to stereophonic, JKHJ is to resume broadcasting at 12:17 p.m. t.o.day from outside Flint Hall.
KJHK-FM 91, the student radio station, isong stereo.
KJHW is off the air yesterday and Monday while equipment for stereo transmission was installed and tested, according to Montgomery, engineering aide for the station.
"WITH THE stereo signal, the overall sound will be improved in that we will sound cleaner and in most cases we will sound louder," he said.
KJHK adds stereo sound
Ernie Martin, JKJH faculty adviser, said. "We're the first in the country to be using this specific generating equipment." Martin, assistant professor of journalism, said.
Martin said that working with FM stereo and the higher quality of sound would provide journalism students with more realistic training.
JOANN BRAND, station manager, said she was pleased that the station, which calls itself the 'sound alternative', could now offer students an alternative sound in stereo.
"It will generate more enthusiasm for the people working at the station and for our listeners," she said.
The equipment to broadcast stereo has been purchased during the past three years. Sources for the funds include the Student Radio Foundation and a television and film in the School of Journalism.
KJHK began broadcasting at 12:17 p.m.
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IN OTHER ACTION, an attempt failed for the second time to report a constitutional amendment proposed by Carlin. A motion to report the resolution, which calls for a vote
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Rep. Robert Miller won adoption of an amendment that would further extend the law to cover major electric transmission lines to transmit 345,000 or more volts of electricity.
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