Word: milder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taste for the stuff herself, as far as Margaret Mead is concerned, puffing on pot is not a dangerous pastime. In Washington to testify before a Senate subcommittee studying drug abuse, the aging (67) but very much tuned-in anthropologist asserted that marijuana is less toxic than tobacco and milder than booze. What is harmful, she said, is the law banning the drug. As she put it: "There is the adult with a cocktail in one hand and a cigarette in the other telling the child. 'You cannot.' " The answer, Dr. Mead told reporters after the hearing...
...punished for his thoughts." Wilson said, adding that most of the people involved in the occupation received milder discipline. "But violence is one of those acts which is not permissible, and he was separated because he used force and violence...
Ptashne accused the Faculty-which passed his resolution condemning the Vietnam war but did not pass a milder resolution supporting the Moratorium until it was considerably modified-of having no understanding of the meaning of the two proposals...
...Weathermen, members of RYM (although many milder RYM adherents have lately begun dissociating themselves from certain Weathermen offensives) are an outgrowth of last year's New Left, viewed at the time as being less militant than WSA. While WSA is well-organized, tightly disciplined, and patient, building for revolution around the support of America's working class, the Weathermen are flamboyant. They use guerrilla tacties, hit-and-run violence...
...sentencing proposals in the Administration's bill overrode the milder recommendations that had been agreed on by many officials in the departments of Justice and Health, Education and Welfare. The measure raises penalties for LSD, and keeps marijuana in the same classification as hard narcotics. The minimum jail sentence for a first offense would be two years. The bill's only concession permits a judge to release on probation first offenders who are found guilty and, if they behave properly, to dismiss them with a clean criminal record...