Social, legal sides of drug situation discussed by panel ..
Social , psychological and legal aspects of drug abuse were discussed in a panel held last Wednesday . Lanny Gunnell, a Logan lawyer , and Jeff Smith and Van Huffner , representatives of the Drug Cris is Center in Salt Lake City, made up the panel. Gunnell, who defended several of the students who were arrested on variou s drug charges last year, gave a legal view of the drug situation . "Regardless of a person's feeling of the law, there are laws acro ss the country that are very stringent again st drugs ," Gunnell stated.
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Problem of mobilizing the public into ecology conscious local groups is the center of environm ental politics, said Garret DeBell, San Franci sco bay area environmentalist. DeBell, editor of En vironmental Handbook, a best seller in the ecology field, spoke on campus Thur sday evening.
He added that the har dest part of defending a drug user is that most of them don't agree with the law they are charged with. If they are guilty and acquitted for some reason , they tend to repeat the crim e because there is no motivation not to. Gunnell fel t it unlikel y that marijuana will be legalized . Laws will probably just go more toward the national program wher e a rehabilitation type progr am is used, he said . Huffner, director of the Crisis Center outlined how the center works. There are five areas in the program . They include the volunteer program , a medical clinic, a counciling area, and arts and crafts area and a public relations program.
Smith stated that people stay on drugs because they like it. He estimated that at least 50percent of the student population of the University of Utah smokes marijuana . "Nobody wants to be a drug addict , but they like taking drugs . Giving it up means giving up something en- joyable," Smith said .
DeBell sa id that people should organ ize locally and work with specific envir onmental problems . He sa id tha t nat ionally, "gove rnm ent is agres sive to stop environmentalists ." He gave as an example the Internal Revenue's policy on lobbying. It's said that businesses can deduct the cost of lobbying from their income tax, but a non-profit organizat ion cannot deduct its lobbying costs. Pollution was described by DeBell as "the only part that the admi nistration is paying attention to." DeBell said P res ident Nixon's speech on the environment "really won't do any good, " because it only gives suggestions for business to follow. DeBell said that the reason a tough policy isn' t followed is because of "vested interests. " DeBell said " everyone is a member of a vested interest group" simply by using products. He gave the example the oil compa nies. DeBell presented a formula concerning pollution. He said that the level of pollution is controlled by the number of people times the 'consumption per person times the pollution per consumption of mat erial. DeBell said that some people deal only with population or pollution, but that we must "deal with all the variables in order to solve the problems.
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People come to the center for several reasons, acc ording to Huffner. Some of the people who come are not even drug users . "The program is based on trust and commitment ," Jeff Smith, the other representative from the center stated . "A person may come every day for six months and never give his name, school, age or if he's married or not." He stressed the fact that most of the people who seek help at the center don't know who they can trust, so they are reluctant to confide to the people at the center. Some 2,000 people were seen at the Drug Crisis Center last year . A member of the audience asked Smith why all that is heard about drugs is the bad affects and not the good that can come from it.
Utah State University, February 26, 1971
With a nimals , DeBell said , population is the only variabl e. but with man everything is a variab le. He said " this country is overdeveloped" and that our economic growth must be stopped in order to meet the problems of the environment.
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Air standards meet set Reporting :
Peggie l:ott 'Life Writer
A pub lic hea r ing to disc uss p ropose d s ta nd a rd s fo r a ir co nse r va ti on r egu la tions in Uta h will be held today a t 10 a.m. in the Unive r si ty Cente r . Uta h Air Conse r vat ion Comm itt ee a nd the Uta h Sta te Boar d or Heal th are jo in tly co ndu cting th e m ee tin g to esta bli sh a form at an d a code for ai r conse r vatio n reg ul a tions r e la ting to e mi ssio ns of ca rb on m on oxide ,
p h otoc h emical oxidants, fuel su lfur conte nt a nd certai n types of open burning. R epresentatives of political subdivisions, gover n mental agencies, agric ul ture, industry, r ecrea ti on , sports, co nse r vation a nd pla nni ng, and civ ic in te r est gr oup s will be her e to present their vie ws on the proposed regulatio ns. Th e standar ds pro pose d by the com m itt ee a r e cons idered by seve r al U tah professors of che m istry to be compa r atively lowe r than the pro posed national sta nd ar ds.
According to Ha ns C. Rilling, associate professor of biologica l che m istry at USU , the state limitations on carbon monoxide should be more stringent tha n the national standards because of Utah's high altitude. He exp lained that skiers are often subject to a period of dizziness and headaches caused by carbon monoxide poisoning after they first reach the mountains. Hearings will also be held in Price, Richfield, Cedar City and Vernal next week.