Thursday, May 16, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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House subcommittee slaps drug misuse; Schwegler reaffirms his position
Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of student health, yesterday reaffirmed his position concerning treatment of students ill due to misuse of drugs, despite action taken yesterday by the House Health subcommittee making individual possession of LSD, pep pills, or barbituates without a prescription a misdemeanor.
The subcommittee also set felony penalties for making, distributing or selling these drugs.
According to my sources in the (KU) law school, Schwegler said, these laws are not concerned with treatment. We are interested in treating sick people — we're not policemen, he said.
Schwegler said that treating a case such as this is within the law, and that there are no medical tests available which can prove beyond a doubt—that a person suffers from drug misuse.
However, the subcommittee measure for the first time would make it a misdemeanor to possess LSD and related hallucinogens, amphetamines known as pep pills and barbituates, which are known as depressants, for one's own use without a prescription.
Penalties would be up to $1000 and one year in prison for the first offense and $10,000 and three years for subsequent offenses.
However, for a first offender, the judge would have the discretion to suspend part or all of the sentence, grant probation under court terms which could include treatment, and finally wipe the offender's record clean of conviction.
The bill would set felony penalties for all convictions of manufacturing, selling, distributing, or possessing the drugs for sale. Present penalties for these offenses start at the misdemeanor level for the first offenses.
The new penalties would be up
would start at 10 years and $15,000 for a first offense and rise to 15 years and $20,000 for additional offenses.
to five years in prison and $10,000 for first and subsequent offenses. However, where the sale was to those under 21, the penalties
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