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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Tuesday, March 18, 1986
Report says officials dealing in corruption
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Public officials are being charged with or convicted of drug-related crimes at a pace rivaling the corruption spawned during Prohibition, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws said yesterday.
The group, basing its study on published reports, said that over the past three years about 300 public officials had been implicated in drug-related crimes ranging from simple possession up to murders connected with drug trafficking.
According to the NORML report, which advocates legalizing marijuana, the list of accused or convicted officials is comprised of individuals from every agency involved in drug enforcement, judges, prosecutors and elected officials.
The two drugs most often involved are marijuana and cocaine, which are widely regarded as the most popular and prevalent illegal drugs in the country.
The report said drug use among enforcement officials had played only a minor role, and then in only an incidental number of cases. It also said there were some cases of officials stealing drugs for their own use.
"Corruption is one of those hidden costs of marijuana prohibition which is doing more damage to U.S. society than marijuana," said Kevin Zeees, national director of the group. "Unfortunately, corruption will continue
to expand as long as marijuana remains illegal."
The NORML report compared today's drug-related corruption with that linked to the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s and early '30s. Between 1920 and 1938, according to the report, 1,300 officials were removed for improper activities. It said, "The rate of corruption today is comparable to the rate during alcohol prohibition."
The problem, the report said, is the big money to be made in the drug trade. It said, "Just as alcohol prohibition created widespread corruption, the New Prohibitions are causing corruption.
"Just as corruption disappeared from the alcohol business when the illegal profits disappeared, we will not rid ourselves of current corruption until the profits (from illicit drugs) disappear."
The report, based on public records of either court convictions or guilty pleas, notes cases of Drug Enforcement Administration agents; federal and state prosecutors; federal, state and local judges and magistrates, and sheriffs and police officers.
Categories and cases in the report were; judicial officers, 8; federal officials, 27; elected representatives, 11; state officials, 3; police officers, 55; sheriffs, 23. Many of the cases involved more than one person, thus accounting for study's near-300 figure, the organization said.
On Campus
■ The seminar "Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?" will be at 4:30 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1204 Oread Ave.
Auditions for the Jayhawk Singers will be from 4 to 6 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
The Student Assistance Center
will present a program, "Preparing for Exams," at 7 p.m. today in the Council Room of the Union. Registration is not necessary.
*Ted Johnson, professor of French and Italian, will speak on "An Introduction to Proust's and Schlordorf's 'Swann in Love.'" at 4 p.m. Thursday in 4035 Wesco Hall
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