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Show r - t- 2 v- - V v The Sait Lake Trihune, Sunday, March 1 V V HT-'- y "V" Connery, who retired in told a Senate appropriations subcommittee that he felt his career rode on his ability to produce. Didnt that tend to stimulate him to collect more money than the taxpayer originally had paid? Sen. Joseph Monwondered. toya, 1957, - r' ; ' - "t - -- - rir ' -- r V tf '! w r w T , r"V " v- National Campaign Pushes Liberal View on Pot With IRS Its Ticklish Question - "r XT V 11, 1973 A Quota System? By William Chapman Washington Post Writer WASHINGTON If . . . sou are working at a store, Vincent L. Connery explained to the congressional committee, and your boss is interested in moving bicycles, you are out moving bicycles." But Connery wasnt in the bicycle business. He is a former Internal Revenue Service (IDS) agent who was describing what he conceived to have been the pressures on him to extract more money from American taxpayers - By David E. Anderson United Press International WASHINGTON -Theres two ways you can run it, says R. Keith Stroup, like a commune or like a business Were more like a business. The It is NORML-t- he National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws the largest, most sophisticated lobby dedicated to the idea that people have a right to smoke the illicit drug once dubbed Killer Weed." fair to say beConnery replied, cause your boss is interested in it. It is apparently a ticklish question over at IRS which has been plagued for years by suspicious that tax auditors are under a quota system to discover deficiencies and collect them, thereby enhancing their chances of promotion Former Commissioner Mortimer Caplan, for example, testified that he discovered some supervisors kept track of the dollar amounts collected in order to judge their agents efficiency His successor. Sheldon Cohen, said that even though Caplan had ended the practice, he found that supervisors had to be constantly alerted to keep it from creeping back in. I think it is yes, Were damn practical," Stroup says of NORMLs efforts Wed rather be effective than pure," and therefore the organization is "not a revolutionary thing, not a peoples' thing " H ork Effectiv e And, in Stroups estimate, the lobby has been effective Decriminalization of immeis almost marijuana diately within our grasp, Stroup said in an interview. It wont come this year, but within two years there will be some states where marijuana is absolutely decriminalized. If this happens, the credit or blame wont all go to NORML. It largely will be because millions of Americans persist in smoking marijuana despite its illegality. President Last year, on Nixons commission marijuana and drug abuse estimated conservatively that at least 24 million Americans have tried marijuana at least once and that another 8 3 million are current users Support Slowly Increasing More recently, a Gallup Poll found that a slowly of minority increasing Americans have experimented with marijuana and the majority that opposes its legalization slowly is decreasing cent converts have been conservative columnist and author William F. Buckley, and the prestigious Consumers Union. breaking down many of the myths that surrounded marthe sort that reijuana sulted in the 1930s film, Reefer Madness, which claimed smoking led to murder and insanity. Buckley devoted most of one issue of his "National Review to the pot contro- versy and concluded the for penalties possession should be removed because there are no arguments, of any force or gravdy, by which to justify the treatment routinely given to people who use marijuana here and . there in the United States. Today, NORML shows Reefer Madness as a to raise piece of camp money, and Nixons commission has declared that no conclusive evidence exists of any physical damage, disturbances of bodily processes or proven human fatalities attributable solely to even very high doses of marijuana. More Join Isers As the myths come tum- bling down, more people many of whom simply dont want to see their sons and for daughters imprisoned indulging in a vice that may be no more senous than their own cocktail have hours slowly Capitol Hill Focus Focus of the national effort at marijuana reform will come on Capitol Hill Sens. Jacob of the re Javits, and Harold Hughes, have introduced legislation that would end decrimcriminal penalties inalize is the word most for posfrequently used session for pnvale and personal use, without making it legal. NORML, while it would like to see pot legalized, is putting most of its efforts into decriminalization. went Union Consumers beyond most marijuana reform advocates, and called for complete legalization of the drug. It said it did not favor reform. Most notable market. Didnt Do a Thing He also admitted that he had tried a little grass himon his sailboat outself side the territorial limit. To tell the truth, he wrote, marijuana didnt do a thing for me. embraced marijuana The Presidents commission began the process of legalization because it believed pot was harmless,' an orderly but because system of legal distribution and illicit use will have notable advantages for both user and nonusers o er the present marijuana black Our job is to change the laws and get people cut of jail, Stroup said. He added that he does s not expect the Javits-Hughe- to pass this year, or even to get out of committee for consideration by the full Senate and House But weve been promised at least two days of hearings," Storup said. and that's a chance to put on a good show It will legitimatize the issue In addition, he said, there is some talk of introducing legislation that would be the same as the bill but only apply to the District of Colanbia, with the idea of with decnmmaliza- bill I Javits-Hugh- expert-mentin- '"stroup spends a lot of his with Jaycee groups. 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