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...cases, as well as modern means of communication, has long since rendered obsolete the notion of the pristinely "ignorant" jury. Experience in such trials has demonstrated the precautions that can protect the process-a delay to let the pretrial publicity die down, especially careful questioning of potential jurors to weed out the biased and sequestering of the chosen jurors during the actual trial...
...program to put sensible limits on real estate deductions. Local tax authorities should stop taxing undeveloped land at lower rates than developed land. If the rates were equalized, land hoarding would become prohibitively expensive for many speculators. And the cities might not be quite so blighted by weed-choked vacant lots, crumbling buildings and parking lots that speculators hold only because they are lightly taxed and might rise in price...
Meanwhile, advertisers are finding that such conversions can work two ways. Country Composer Tom T. Hall's Me and Jesus has recently been revised as a sales promotion song for a chemical weed preventive. The title: Me and Treflan...
...payable by mail. And this spring the radicals were apparently responsible as 60% of Berkeley, Calif., voters passed the "marijuana initiative," which ordered police to give marijuana laws "their lowest priority" and required authorization of the city council for any "arrest for possession, use or cultivation" of the weed. Both cities' policies were later knocked out. But last month in Washington, D.C., a still more revolutionary idea came from an unexpected source: the American Bar Association proposed the total removal of criminal laws against marijuana possession in small amounts...
Just how far the weed has come with the middle class since the first furtive puffs in college dormitories in the 1960s was evident at the A.B.A. convention. A year ago, Whitney North Seymour Sr., past president of the A.B.A., helped water down a decriminalization motion. This year Seymour was the first speaker in favor of the revised resolution. Says he: "Reflecting on the consequences of criminal penalties to the 20-odd million young people using marijuana, I decided that we ought to concentrate on trying to stop sales and start removing penalties for possession." Seymour was joined...