University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 30, 1990
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Speaker lauds legalized drugs
NORML advocates
classes, treatment over prosecution
By Curtis Knapp
Kansan staff writer
Marijuana use should be legal, a speaker told a supportive crowd last night at the Kansas Union.
Dan Viebs, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), spoke to about 200 people at the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union. The speech was sponsored by the KU American Civil Liberties Union.
Vieis said the only repercussions of making marijuana legal would be for the dealers who would go out of business.
He mentioned the high rate of drug-related crime in prisons to support his argument.
"If we can't stop drug use in prison," Viets said, "then how in the hell are we going to stop it outside?"
"We will never stop drug use, but we certainly can do some rational things that will diminish the negative effects of the harm associated with drug use."
Dan Viets proposes the legalization of marijuana.
Viets said money should be spent on drug education and treatment rather than on prosecution of a vicious crime such as use of marijuana.
He said drug searches, which are
used to enforce prohibition, deprived people of their civil liberties.
"Without turning this country into an absolute police state, we will never be able to control people's lives in the face of criminal punishment," he said.
Viets listed major problems that occurred as a result of laws that make
drug use illegal. Most drug-related killings are caused by drugs being prohibited, which drives up their prices. People kill or steal to get drugs, he said.
He said the cost of investigating drug crimes and the subsequent jailing of people wasted money.
Group will send condoms to Ramaley
Students revive AIDS message
By Carol B. Shiney
A group of students concerned about AIDS awareness decided yesterday that on the first day of Student Senate elections they would deliver about their concerns to Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor.
The condoms were left over from last year's Condom Sense Week, she said. The Student Senate AIDS task force sponsored the week.
Becki Newburn, Columbia, Md., senior, said the group wanted to send a message to Ramaley that students wanted condoms to be more accessible and that they were concerned about AIDS.
Newburn and Jeff Morris, student body vice president, called a meeting of the group because they wanted to ensure the longevity of AIDS education.
"We were kind of to the point where we realized nothing was happening with AIDS education this semester, and we thought that was a shame." Newburn told the group at the beginning of the meeting.
Ten people attended the meeting yesterday in the Oread Room of the Union. Newburn said she invited people who had expressed concern about AIDS education.
"Morris told the group, "This is the new AIDS task force, so whatever we want to do, we have $500 to do it."
The $500 is the money that Student Senate allocated for its AIDS Awareness Task Force.
Newburn, former chairman of the task force, said she was uncertain if the task force still existed.
Morris said that the task force existed but that it had not met in a long time. He said since the task force was not a permanent structure, it was not abnormal for it to stop meeting.
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