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How to Outlaw Paraphernalia Special Bulletin MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-DRUG COALITION January 1981 Vol. II, No. 1 How to outlaw paraphernalia Special Bulletin Shooting up the rents in New York City: Real estate and the dope mob California town declares war on drugs in schools Carter's FDA okays THC pills for 'medical' use Editor-in-Chief Nora Hamecman Associate Editor Michele Steinberg Managing Editor MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-DRUG COALITION Christian Curtis January 1981 Vol. II, No. 1 NADC News Editor Bonnie Mesaros Medical Editor New in this issue— Ned Rosinsky, M.D. NADC public service bulletin: Legal Editor \ . opposite page 28 Mary Jane Freeman Outlawing drug paraphernalia Art Director Deborah Asch What ever happened Production Editor to drug enforcement? Gail G. Kay by Dean Andromidas Editorial Board The recent slashing of DEA of Advisers capabilities is only part of the ongoing attack Max Dean, Esq. against our drug defenses David Goldman 16 Konstandinos Kalimtgis DeForest Z. Rathbone Jurgen Spahn, M.D. Shooting up rents Jeffrey Steinberg in New York City: Juan Torres Real estate and the dope mob War on Drugs is published by Lydia Schulman and David Goldman monthly by the National Anti- Drug Coalition, 304 West 58th Money made off addicts comes back Street, 5th Floor, New York, to finance the buying up of N.Y. 10019. The views of the America's first city 24 NADC are stated in the edito­ rials; opinions expressed in ar­ ticles are not necessarily those of the coalition. Subscriptions A California town goes after by mail are $24 for 12 issues, pushers in the schools $48 for 24 issues, and $48 for Drugfighter of the month interview: foreign air mail (12 issues). Jerry Pruitt 43 Application to mail at second The causes and treatment class rates pending in New of heroin addiction York, New York. Postmaster: forward all change of address by Dr. David P. Ausubel 52 forms to 304 W. 58th St., 5th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10019. Departments 2 Editorial , Copyright ® December 1980 4 Letters National Anti-Drug Coalition 5 News briefs Printed in the U.S.A. All Rights Reserved 7 National News 48 International News 56 Ed Christian: facts about drugs On the cover: In the biggest domestic hashish haul in history, agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Coast Guard and U.S. Customs seized 1>0,000 pounds of hashish aboard the Olaug on March 17, 1979. Carter's dismantling of the DEA threatens to end such efforts, opening the floodgates to dope smuggling. Photo: Wide World exempt Playboy Foundation, Editorial which is the major funder of the marijuana lobbying group, NORML. The Playboy Foundation picked up the tab (for example) for the 1980 Marijuana Initiative, an unsuccessful effort to place a ref­ erendum for legalizing "pot" culti­ vation on the California ballot. Il­ legally grown marijuana already ranks high on the list of the state's ten biggest cash crops, displacing many food crops. In charge of the Playboy Foun­ dation and dispenser of all of its grants is Burton Joseph. Joseph is now said to be Hefner's right-hand man. As Hefner's legal counsel and A national movement as director of the Playboy Founda­ tion tax shelter and dope-grant against the drug-porn lobby conduit, Joseph is the highest-paid employee in the shady Playboy he designation of Playboy En­ empire. Joseph was previously the Tterprises president Hugh Hef­ national director of the ADL. ner as the recipient of the 1980 Hefner's previous personal sec­ "First Amendment Award" of the retary died under mysterious cir­ B'nai Bjrith Anti-Defamation cumstances recently, following his League last September under­ arrest on charges of large-scale scores the reasons why the United cocaine dealing. States needs a powerful national Both Hefner and Joseph serve antidrug lobby—fast. on the advisory board of NORML, Until very recently, no organiza­ for which they serve as financial tion attempting to portray itself to angels. One of NORML's chief the public and its members as civ­ propaganda vehicles for drug use ic-minded would have dared to as­ and legalization is High Times, the sociate the freedoms guaranteed in self-styled "magazine of feeling the Constitution by our founding good." High Times is staffed chief­ fathers with the "freedom" to reap ly by members of the Yippie an­ huge profits from the destruction archist melange, best known for of the minds of American youth the terrorist antics of its erstwhile through pornography and drugs. ringleader Abbie Hoffman, now Yet, this is what occurred at the under indictment in New York for ADL's annual awards dinner in cocaine trafficking. Los Angeles Sept. 21—with no One High Times editor and Yip­ public outcry except for the picket pie, Michael Chance, recently line posted outside the dinner by moonlighted as the author of a the National Anti-Drug Coalition. slander article in the November Most people associate Hefner issue of Larry Flynt's Hustler, a with pornography because of Play­ magazine that specializes in sado­ boy magazine, and some know of masochism and bestiality. In an his philanthropic involvement in article devoted to Lyndon La- developing the sex education cur­ Rouche, one of the founders of the ricula that teach perversions as Anti-Drug Coalition, Chance de­ mere "alternative lifestyles," now scribed the coalition as a "smoke being foisted upon many Ameri­ screen for LaRouche's more-unsa­ can school systems. vory objectives." The Hustler piece But Hefner was honored by the was one of several identical-for­ ADL for the activities of his tax- mat articles libeling the Anti-Drug 2 War on Drugs / January 1981 "Decadence so blatant in our political institutions confronts the American people with a fundamental moral decision." Hugh Hefner (r.j accepts the ADL "First. Amendment Freedoms" award 5 for his activities to promote % bestiality. With him is liberal S columnist Art Buchwald. Coalition that appeared simulta­ ald Tribune guilty of libel in a suit genocide and ruin? Will our citi­ neous with Hefner's award in the brought by Mr. LaRouche against zens continue to look the other way smut trade's magazines, including them for retailing the Our Town as this same policy crushes the High Times itself and the West lies. economies of our own industrial­ German weekly Der Spiegel, But the ADL's award to Hefner ized states? whose editor, Rudolf Augstein, reflects a far deeper cancer in our If not, then the Anti-Drug Coa­ was arrested last year for narcot­ public life, a moral decay that has lition must grow this year to lead ics dealing. poisoned the presidency itself. the biggest lobby ever in U.S. his­ We are not surprised that the Jimmy Carter has been associ­ tory. We have begun this process drug-porn lobby decided to slander ated with this morass of immoral­ by creating the only reliable intel­ Mr. LaRouche, who commissioned ity since he appeared with the ligence on drugs now available in and guided the writing of the 1978 rock-drug Allman Brothers band the United States, so that the fight book Dope, Inc. and has mobilized at "fundraising" concerts in his can be effectively targeted against an international fight against the 1976 campaign, and discussed his the enemy. drug-running cartel that book ex­ "lusts" in a famous interview with We are in touch with scores of posed. Unable to refute the facts Hefner's Playboy. Since taking of­ organizational working locally and in Dope, Inc., the profiteers of evil fice, he has systematically filled nationally, representing millions of have resorted to lies against its White House positions with people and parties. By building authors. The picture becomes even NORML leaders and subordinated these forces into one massive lob­ clearer when these slanders are U.S. economic policy to their drug- by, Americans can restore the traced back to their source, the legalization aims. standards of decency and real free­ New York "throwaway" weekly, dom as the framers of the Consti­ Our Town. Our Town's editor, Ed­ A moral decision tution envisaged—the freedom of ward Kayatt, is a convicted bond Decadence so blatant in our po­ the individual to develop as a cre­ swindler; his lawyer and financial litical institutions confronts the ative, productive adult and not angel of Our Town is none other American people with a funda­ merely to "feel good" like a beast. than the notorious mob lawyer Roy mental moral decision. Will the M. Cohn (see page 36 of this issue). nation stand by and watch the The exercise of "freedom of systematic destruction of its pos­ speech" in these slanders was ex­ terity? Will American citizens con­ posed to all the world as pure libel tinue to tolerate a foreign policy when on Oct. 21, 1980 a French that is leading entire nations, our —Nora Hamerman court ruled the International Her­ country's neighbors and allies to Editor in Chief January 1981 / War on Drugs 3 lems which would otherwise re­ quire tedious calculations, and is LETTERS thus a key to solving the inefficien­ cy of existing technologies. Geometry is a means to trans­ late the global conceptions of more complex and advanced engineering projects which demand a higher level of division of labor. As was stated in a report on this subject, "it is a language necessary to the man of genius who conceives a project, to those who must direct its realization, and finally, to the America is losing craftsmen who must themselves complete its specific aspects." Increasingly alarming to these its skilled labor power skilled workers is the rapid decline To the Editor: with America's potent historical of adequate and capable young A series of research projects has role in the world, and more than workers.
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