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sas Legislative Council report that said there were 52,050 acres of wild marijuana in 59 Kansas counties.
"Young people are coming to Kansas from across the nation for the sole purpose of harvesting the marijuanas for illegal use," he said.
"I intend to ask the legislature to take necessary actions to label marijuana a noxious weed and to enact laws to enforce destruction of the weed," Docking continued. He added that he was concerned about the welfare of Kansas youth and the image of the state.
tions, Docking's proposal and Operation Intercept—are the result of President Nixon's stand on what he refers to as the "drug abuse problem."
All this—the Mexican frustra-
The administration's Drug Bill, currently before the Senate subcomm.:tee to investigate juvenile deliquency, considers marijuana, heroin and LSD together. The penalty for a first offense of possessing any of the three is a minimum of two and maximum of ten years in prison.
Anyone convicted of a first offense in selling the drugs will face 5 to 20 years in prison and a $25,000 fine under the bill. There
would be no opportunity for probation or suspension of sentence.
Dr. Stanley Yolles, director of the Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Department's National Institute of Mental Health, testified before the subcommittee last week in opposition to Nixon's stand.
"I am convinced that the legal punishment given a convicted marijuana user is likely to do him more harm than the joint he smoked." Yolles Said.
Yolles estimated the number of Americans who have used marijuana between eight and twelve million.
Petition asks change
Support at KU for Kansas State University's petition requesting on-campus cigarette sales will consist mainly of a resolution from the Student Senate, said David S. Awbrey, Hutchinson senior and student body president.
Bob Rodda, senate chairman at K-State, sent Awbrey a letter requesting KU's support and cooperation in the campaign to change the law.
Awbrey said that at KU the larger issues of the Vietnam war moratorium scheduled for October 15, and of the controversy concerning State Senator Reynolds Shultz are of more importance on campus. He also said students are interested more in being able to have beer than cigarettes on campus.
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The petition at K-State is the latest of several steps underlining sentiment for a change in the Board of Regents law. The first of these was a referendum conducted by the K-State Student Governing Association during registration this semester in which students indicated they wanted a change in the law.
Awbrey said the KU Student Senate will probably pass a resolution of support for the drive at K-State at its next meeting, but chances are that there will be no petition here.
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