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Voice Of The People

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Day
26
Month
May
Year
1972
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QUESTION: Last week city council passed a law making possession and sales of marijuana a $5 fine. What do you think about this step, helping to totally free marijuana everywhere?

Georgia Sternberg, student: I think it should be legalized. This is pretty good, but you shouldn't have to pay anything.

Chris Moody, University employee: It's bomb, but it still has to be legalized, you know that. There's a lot of people gettin high.

Gary Sarter, I think marijuana should be legalized, cause everybody's smokin it now, even the parents, and they used to tell their children not to smoke it. It's a lot better for you than damn cigarettes, and a lot of people like marijuana better than cigarettes.

Helen Davis, retired college professor: I'm not really prepared to answer that because I haven't read enough about it, but I'm inclined to think there are better ways of handling it than through arrest.

Steve Elliott, worker: It's a good good step cause it's less dangerous but it should be legalized. It doesn't really make that much difference cause everybody always smoked marijuana anyway. It doesn't matter about the laws cause nobody paid attention to them anyway.

This weeks Voice of the People is by Mike Fitzpatrick.