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Wednesday, July 31, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Marijuana Harvesters Reap Crops from Area Fields
By MIKE HOLLAND
Kansas Staff Reporter
Kansan Staff Reporter
It is 2 a.m. The ceaseless noise of crickets is temporarily interrupted by a long car that moves into the park.
The car stops, and two individuals, armed with knives and gloves, get out. The car leaves, and two individuals begin to cut into the surrounding foliage, tying the long slender stalks into bundles and laying them by the side of the road.
Area hemp pickers are still harvesting their crop of marijuana this week, accusing the state's drug enforcement agency.
"There is a demand for pot, and as long as that demand exists, the harvesting will continue."
"K-rot (Kansas rot, named after the locally-grown plant, which induces a mild feeling of euphoria) is used for place-beware," said another source. "It is harvested from surrounding fields and taken back into cultivation and mixed with a higher mutual weed."
Marijuana from the state of Kansas generally sells for $1.5 a "clean" pound.
"$15 a pound is not an exceptionally good price for pot," said the harvester. "However, a good evening's work can result in a sizeful profit. We can harvest up to 50
pounds of uncleanned pot every night. Once
items are removed, it amounts to appro-
priate salt and vinegar.
He said the procedure for harvesting marijuana was relatively simple.
"The two things that need to be taken into consideration are harvesting the maximum amount of marijuana with the least amount of risk," he said.
"Usually, three people spot the patch while driving through the country," a second source said. "Pot generally grows alongside a corn field or in deserted fields. The harvesters return later that night, and two people leave the car."
Because the police have infra-red detection units, he said, the third person drives away in the car and returns about 30 minutes later.
"By that time, the crop has been harvested. The two harvesters fill the trunk and back seat, and the car returns to a seat, and the car is hung upside down and dried," he said.
He said marjuanwa was hung upside down to dry so the ingredient that caused euphoria, THC, would be stored in the leaves.
"No matter how this pot is hung, "the first source said, "it won't be long enough.
He said that after the marijana was dried, the leaves were removed from the tree.
He said he was worried about being spotted by law enforcement officers.
It is nearly impossible to get high on Kansas pot, though I have heard pot grown from it.
"I'll admit it is a risk," he said, "I think they (the Kansas Bureau of Investigation) have four airplanes and two helicopters with infra-red devices for the entire state. Whenever a car passes by, all harvesters lie behind the pot.
"Much weed grows alongside corn fields, If pursued, I would merely run into the cornfield and lie down. I doubt if I could be seen."
He said the best time to harvest marijuana was during a lengthy dry spell. A lack of moisture increases the plant's production of THC, which coats the surface of the leaves to provide protection from the sun.
"The pot has a harsh taste when picked after a rainfall," he said.
He said harvesting marijuana probably would not be legalized.
Whether an individual is prosecuted for possession of marijuana with intent to sell
Meditation Activities Will Increase
BY DAN HAWTHORNE
and NANCY DICKERSON
Kansan Staff Reporters
The growth of transcendental meditation (TM) in Lawrence has encouraged the scheduling of activities for this fall, Jill Sutcliffe and her Transcendental Meditation, said recently.
There are now more than 550 meditators in Lawrence, Schofield said.
During enrollment week, a table for the distribution of literature on IBM will be set up. The table will list all available books.
Introductory lectures will be offered every Tuesday evening this fall in the
A 12-week course in the Science of Creative Intelligence, the theoretical aspect of TM, is scheduled to begin Sept. 22. The course will primarily for meditators, anyone may attend.
"We also hope to establish a center for
Lyman in Laramie this fall. $2500 aid will
The World Plan Week, which is the third annual symposium on the Science of Creative Intelligence, will highlight fall activities.
The center would provide a place for all T-Meal activities, including instruction and training.
Manager Wants Lawrence To Join Research Group
Transcendental meditation is an easily learned technique, he said. A person sits comfortably with eyes closed for two 20-minute periods a day. During this time, he meets his attention to a Sanskrit 'mantra' chosen for him by his teacher, Schofield she did.
Schofield said people had many misconceptions about transcendental men.
"One of the more common misunderstandings," he said, "is that people think they are special."
The program will include a question-and-answer period when area residents may ask questions over the network, directly to Switzerland, Schofield said.
A team of research scientists, computer programmers and space-age technologists.
The week will begin Oct. 30 with a statewide rehabilitation symposium that will feature lectures from noted Swiss psychiatrists and doctors. The lectures will be broadcast in Lawrence through the online academic extension television system.
In the future, PTI hopes to work on more sophisticated procedures such as mass train operations and solid-state batteries. Porter W. Homer, president of PTI, said in a news story in *Public Management Magazine*
By SHARON WALSH
Kansan Staff Reporter
Pretty unlikely; it's too expensive, you say. Not according to Buford Watson, city manager, who said he hoped to introduce a new government in 2018 to city government in the near future.
Homer said PTI started on the less glamourous, everyday problems of cities where he was the most pressing and costly problems. He said the problems are attainable within a
"They also think that it will cause you to withdraw from life, that it involves concentration, is difficult to learn and that only a particular type of person can learn it."
Even large cities, he said, can't afford to invest in research programs, even though research programs might develop money and life-saving equipment for the cities. The MSPA and PTI is that many cities can join together and pool their funds for research, he said.
Since July 1973, when Fort Lauderdale, Fla., became the first city to subscribe to FTM, more than 100 cities across the country have adopted the city chita is the only Kansas city that has joined.
It would cost about $4,000 for Lawrence to become a member of PTI, Watson said. He said he hoped to acquaint city commissioners with the idea soon after the city budget is finalized, which should be sometime in August.
PTI is a tax-exempt, non-profit corporation that is a research and development consultant to state and local governments. Better breathing apparitions for firemen, automatic fire pump controls, drug use systems, and maintenance records that are kept by computer are just a few of the projects PTI is working on now. Watson said yesterday.
These cities are given access to new developments such as the Probe-Eye, an instrument that can detect through walls the location of a fire. The Probe-Eye is being developed with funds provided by the Hughes Aircraft Company. PTI develops an aircraft that tries to interest a private company in producing and marketing it, Watson said.
"We have always been problem oriented in the past," Watson said. "We have spent no money looking for new technology to help prevent problems. I don't know whether this would help, but it would at least offer the city an idea bank to choose from."
PTI relies on organizations such as The Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation and NASA for research grants, to fund members' fees, to fund its developments.
reasonable time and can be instituted without the addition of many expensive costs.
or simple possession is determined by the quantity confiscated, according to Mike Malone, assistant county attorney for Douglas County.
"The time when roads need patching is in the early spring months when we're still experiencing snow and rain," he said. "PTI is working on new material made of thermoplastic which can be used even in the rain."
Watson said he was interested in the practical solutions provided by PTI for pharmaceuticals.
The results are said to be astonishing. Recent data from scientists and researchers have supported statements that TM reduces tension, improves personal relationships and makes meditators more energetic and efficient.
Some believe that these physiological findings, together with measurements of skin resistance, blood chemistry and brain wave patterns, indicate that an individual gains profoundly deep rest while the mind awakes and able to respond to stimuli.
"The quantity is taken into consideration and also whether the marijuna is purchased elsewhere that case it, when seen so that the reason should be charged with intent to sell."
*Physicians, psychiatrists, professional athletes, clergymen, lawyers, politicians, businessman, musicians; people from all over the world are presently meditating.* Schofield said.
Reports indicate that transcendental meditation in the United States has grown from 1965 from 221 to an estimated 500,000 meditators today.
"The conclusion is almost unanimous that people who are practicing transcendental meditation are healthier psychologically," said Shelly, professor of psychology.
Thousands of Americans who practice TM insist that it has changed their daily lives, according to Psychology Today magazine.
Sillyly said the great debate centers on whether this healthier mental state is due to TM or whether the type of person who makes the original a more mentally healthy person.
"We're sure that TM is useful, but we're not sure how it is useful." Shelly said.
Malone said possession of two or three pounds of marijuana was normally used as an illegal drug.
Murp Servy, supervisor of the narcotics bureau of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, said the KBI was not as heavily associated with the recruiting harvesters as in previous years.
"In other words, we can describe the effects without explaining how it happens," he said, "because there has been little effort to understand that the effects are brought about on a scientific level.
Sydney Schroeder, psychiatrist at WakkaNake's mental health clinic, said TM relieved tension in meditators in a case could not be done without meditation.
"The number of arrests have declined," Purdy said. "Either the harvesters are getting smarter or the quality of the marijuana has weakened."
"There is nothing magical about it," Schroeder said. "The changes that are made physiologically result in a more stable conscious state."
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"The law has also changed. Possession of marijuana is now a misdemeanor, although it's still not criminal."
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Purdy said that all circumstances were taken into consideration when determining what crime a person caught harvesting marijuana was charged with.
"The quantity the person has determines how much he sells," he said. "We also take into consideration how many people are working and what kind of operation is taking place."
Purdy said that occasionally the marijuana was destroyed when spotted but that because it was not listed as a noxious substance, the wound was small, because of lack of funds.
Purdly said the peak of the harvest was in August and September. He said that infrared devices and airplanes were not used to measure temperature. KBI knew where most of the fields were.
"Any quantity of marijuana in a person's possession is against the law," said Gary Porter, a special agent who works with the attorney general's office.
"We don't patrol the roads," he said. "Instead, we act on information from citizens and contact local officials to remove the patch. If we hear of a complaint someone about some harvesting marijuana or that city's land, we will investigate."
Porter said the attorney general's office worked closely with the KBI in investigating marijuana harvesting.
"We help them and they help us," Gordon said. "We're basically the same organization, concerned with the transportation and sale of narcotics."
Gordon said that if a person saw someone harvesting marijuana, he should contact the police.
"We will be watching the fields very closely," he said.
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