Friday, Febiuaiy l3. l970 ON THE RIGHT by William Now the son oi the gov» ernnr oi New Jersey has been arrested ior smoking pot, and the son of the man who aspires to be Governor of New York In the latter case, it transpires that two oi the eight children have ”experimented” with marijuana, A Congressman informs me that. there is sudden interest by the legislature in the Koch Bill (which would set up a presidential commission to inquire scientiiically into the eiiects oi the use at pot), resulting iroin many Congressmen’s having come to know that their own sons and daughters are taking pot. And, oi course, the new crime bill, which awaits action by the House of Representatives. calls for reducing the penalty tor smoking pot , though by no means elimiiiatiiigit. How tempting it is to say merely that pot should be legalized That, for instance, Is the recommendation of Mr. Joseph Alsop, who comes back from a viSit to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and reports that it is easier for a minor to obtain marijuana than to obtain a bottle oi beer One has merely to say a) that the problem oi en- [orcement is insuperable, and bl that anyway, the doctors haven't come up with any truly cone vincing arguments that have to do with the physical harm done by the smoking ot marijuana , thcreiore, why not yield to three, iiiajeiu-e, and maybe even enjoy it? F. Buckley, Jr.’ Those arguments are cogent, but they pay iiisuiiicient ale teniioii to the psychic dimension oi the problem Here are three examples. A senior in college advises me that a classmate in an adjacent room, who in the first two years oi college liic participated ac- tivcty in sports and journalism, non smokes pot instead. 1 say instead because the boy in question smokes tour or iive times a week, beginning shortly otter dinner The potsmoker (or certainly this particular one) becomes thoroughly absorbed in his euphoria, Alter while, he does not readily comprehend the book he is reading, which is in any casca distraction: bettci- just the pot, and the music. Now four or live days in which you give over to pot tour or live hours per day oiyo‘ur time, means about twenty hoiu-s per week in which you are withdrawn from actual intellec» lual, social, athletic, or extracur- rieular activity. it is the opinion of my friend that his friend has, titract,cllanged. Case number two is aliother student who began his career as a well integrated freshman, with orderly and rewarding ties to the principal institutions of the west ~ his family, his friends, his country, his church. These are now in shambles. He smokes pot regularly , Post pot proptcr pot? Case number three is two young ealiiornians who were active over several years in political activity After a while they began acting rathcr FAMILY WARDROBES professionally drycleaned process Keep the "LikeANew" look & tee! with the STA‘NU finish ..,used and recommended « - by leading clothing manuv tactuters,.. it costs you no more. Meeker‘s service available a! both North and South Cleanlng Agencies. Meeker Laundry 8c Cleaners l019‘/2 Broad St. Grinnzll, Iowa SCARLET AND BLACK strangely , the cmnpulsivcgbsen— tires. the weir-doing of politics, a sort or hippyization or life in general Their friends and their political iollowers began quietly to express their concern over the lackadaisieai and QC, casionally iaiistical nature oi thcir disposition. ch you guessed it, they both smoke pot. Now these could be coin- cidental, let us hastily agree. But our experience with pot isn’t suiticient to permit us to know whether it is or isn't. We are living in an age when the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare decrees that it is dangerous to drink Tab Surely in such an age that Secretary owes us more than we are getting about the psychic consequences oiusingpot? There are a lot oi people in jail these days sentenced there tor life, or tor ten or twenty years. Prisoners have cooperated beiorc in medical experiments Why not get them to cooperate in pot-smoking under ob- servation? That would be a standingroom only volunteer project, needless to say. But surcly trained psychiatrists and clinicians, as also trained ob» servers oi the prisoners on whom the cxpcriments were conducted, would give us a great deal oi information without which we cantiot speak intelligently? The consumption or LSD, one hears, Is down: because the kids themselves came to know something about the danger of using LSD. But they simply do not know the danger oi the other, it there is a danger: which danger, it appears, is psychic rattler than biological. Couldn’t the Koch Bill go iurtiier to urge the use oi prisoners ior such experiments? SOZL‘9EZ ODVXJI AEIIIVS "08.. ‘llMop aptsdn s! Jadnd 3|" ;o 455.: at”, dit itits until SI ltti still their , Page Three A WORD EDGEWISE by John P. Roche Several times in the course of the last year this column has sugr ested that Senator Fred Harris, whatever his personal merits, “as not the man to be Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Tllclirst tlmeI made this observation, former Vice President l-lubert l-lumphrey took strong exception and deiended Harris with his characteristic enthusiasm. Subsequently, as recent newspaper inter-views with Humphrey indicate, Harris appears to have lost the cone fldcnee of Ills initial patron. The disastrous failure of the Miami Beach “Gala Performance and Ball” on February 5, which had been billed as the biggest iunde raiser in history and ended up as a iiasco, would suggest that Harris’ days are numbered. In a rational world run by logicians this would undoubtedly be the case. But politics, to the despair ci logical purists, operates on somewhat different premises which, by the way, are not lacking in cold logic oi their own, though it is oiten concealed behind a smoke screen oi diversionary rhetoric Right now, while all hands protess loyalty to the Party and the D,N.C ,lhe Democrats are busily implementing the enclave theory. Local organizations are desperately trying to deiend themselves against\growing Republican power; whatever money they raise is put in the pot tor the 1970 elections in their own bailiwicks. As far as the D.N.C. is concerned, the word is out, “Who needs it?" In addition, extremely powerful elements oi the Democratic coalition are quite happy to leave Harris as the trustee in bankruptcy. Efforts to unseat him have been discussed, but the general ieeling among critics is that until at least 1971 DR. 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As one Humphrey stalwart put it, ”Whoever heard oi putting the opposition on the payrolli" Not only does Harris have them on the payroll, but in a burst oi ecumenical zeal he appointed - obviously with Humphrey’s approval , a number oi the more acerbic advocates of the “new politics” to the Democratic Advisory Council. This makes for good clean fun - Ken Galbraith is no mean entertainer, and Gloria Stein does add a certain decor - but it automatically converts the D.A.C. into a debating society. Serious Democrats in 1970 can hardly spend their time arguing whether Senator Gale McGee’s defeat in Wyoming (for supporting the war in Vietnam) should be top priority, They have no time to spend for children’s games. So the “Titanic” sails on, Fred Harris at the helm, leaving behind on the pier two vital components iii any possible Democratic majority: the loyal Democrats from the South, Southwest, and Border states who are valiantly righting a two- iront war against George Wallace on one side and the G.O,P. on the other, and the AFIr CIO, which has taken a grim reading or the iacts of political lite and is preparing tor a siege. From their vantage point. these groups are fighting for simple political survival. To them the revolution that the spokesmen oi the “new polities” were heralding in 1968 has already come , but from the opposite direction, the right in- stead oitheleit. The key question is therelore not “Where do We advance?” but “Can we hold?” "ir's oven. 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