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Monday, September 9, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Marijuana-law reformer calls laws ineffective, costly
By STEVE FRY City Reporter
Marijuana is a harmless drug, Craig Cornish, Kansas coordinator for the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), said. Friday.
Cornish appeared Friday on a Kansas City television show to discuss why he thinks marjuana prohibition laws should be reformed.
In a telephone interview with the Kanas, Cornish said that marijuana laws should be reformed for two reasons. First, he said, the laws are miserably ineffective in deterring the use of marijuana. He cited the large increase of users in recent years.
Second, marijuana laws need to be reformed because of the high social costs of enforcing them. Cornish said that individual responsibility for crimes were ignored in the enforcement of the laws.
Marijuana-related cases clog courts, and money that could be used to investigate violent crimes is spent on investigating the victimless marijuana cases, he said.
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CORNISH SAID that the purpose of NORMEL was to "bring about legislative reform of the marijuana prohibition laws so that those who possess marijuana privately in their homes for the purpose of social and recreational usage are not subject to police harassment from no-knock searches or no-incarcerated or in any way cast into a criminal subculture from private possession."
Quoting from the report submitted to former President Richard M. Nixon in 1973 by the Commission on Marijuana and Drug abuse, it is known about the effects of marijuana, just as present level does not constitute a major threat to public health. No conclusive
evidence exists of any physical damage, disturbances of bodily processes or proven human fatalities attributable solely to very high doses of marijuana.' "
ORGANIZED IN LATE 179 by a lawyer, Keith Strout, NORMAL has 16,000 members in the United States, Cornish said. The organization receives some funds from the Playboy Foundation and some indirectly from the Ford Foundation.
NORMIL is attempting to get the reforms through by lobbying on both the state and federal levels, he said. Strop, the executive director, lobbies in Washington, D.C., while NORMIL to get state legislatures to hold public hearings on marijuana.
decriminalizing the possession of marijuana in Oregon and Texas, Cornish said. Oregon now has no criminal penalties for private possession of one ounce or less of marijuana, and the maximum fine is $100, he said.
NORML has had some success in
The Texas penalty for possession of marijuana was sentenced from a felony to a misdemeanor, he added.
"NORMAL HELPED to achieve a dramatic reduction of marijuana penalties in Texas by providing expert testimony in the case of the Texas legislature," Cornish said.
NORMAL has also given testimony to legislatures in eight other states and has been involved in a number of cases.
George Waggoner, dean of the college,
received a report four or five days ago that recommended that the school be absorbed into the College.
Anthony Genova, professor of philosophy who was chairman of the committee, said Friday that the report supported the idea of a college in religion into the College as a department.
Status of School of Religion debated
Academically, the School is part of the University, according to Waggoner and another author.
The report was a result of a special committee that was to investigate the problems and future of the school. The committee was appointed last spring by Ambrose Saricks, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
By TOM BILLAM Reporter
Reporter
The Kansas School of Religion may become the department of religion in the state.
count among the University credit hours, which are the basis for legislative and judicial purposes.
Taylor said that even though he didn't have an opinion on the proposal, he thought it would be nice if the University would help share the costs of running the school.
the old 'Reefer Madness' myth that marijuana causes crime, insanity and death, which simply is not scientifically supportable," Cornish said.
When asked how the School of Religion would be absorbed into the College, she said such a thing was a rare occurrence and it wasn't exactly sure of the proper procedure.
Cornish is a senior law student at Wash-
born University in Topeka, works with
the Law Department of the University.
NORMAL doesn't advocate the recreational use of drugs or the legalization of marijuana.
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