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Reefei By K. P. Hong Associated Prsss Wrttsr TOKYO ? An organization called the Clear Light Society ? in what is believed to be the first m n\;p nf Ihic Irinrl nf Aoin if ??v?v vta viuu niiiu vi noia is planning a symposium to urge the legalization of marijuana in Japan. The society, with about 300 members, has scheduled the symposium for June 5 to point up what it complains are harsh laws against marijuana use here and in other parts of Asia. THE LAWS provide a maximum death penalty in Malaysia, South " Korea and the Philippines; maximum life imprisonment in Hong Kong; 30 years and 15 strokes of the cane in Singapore; seven years imprisonment in japan ana tnree years' imprisonment in India. Koh Akutagawa, 45, who heads the Clear Light Society, said, "The law, we believe, violates civil liberties and is as unconstitutional as the ban on alcohol in some places in the old days." Akutagawa is a prominent Oriental-style painter and a defendant in a marijuana case. He said in an interview that many doctors and research groups, including the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIDA, have held that marijuana is not an addictive drug. One recent NIDA report was reported to have said, however, it did not regard marijuana as harmless. MANY WESTERN countries, he said, today pursue a policy that possession and use of marijuana should no longer be against the law. "Our movement isn't intended to encourage people to smoke hemp because we like it," Akutagawa said. "We just want to see the law revised so Uiat citizens can decide whether to use it as in the case of alcohol." A metropolitan police official said the Clear Light members "are free to meet and speak." Japanese judicial officials declined comment on the constitutionality of Japan's 31-year-old marijuana law established at the request from the thpn I I .Q rwr>iirvo Hnn In the symposium, the two-yearold society will bring together a dozen or so lawyers, doctors, medical researchers, writers and others, Akutagawa said. Akutagawa's indictment in 1977 for smoking hemp which he grew in his yard led to the organization of the Clear Light Society in Kyoto. I "lHwratkwi I of Honey Doll Jones I Double Exposure of Holly ATLANTIC II f Captain Lust Ladv Defila Society urg< * madn He remains free pending a final ruling by the Kyoto District Court expected late this year. "I have two boys, the vouncer a 19-year-old high school graduate. Having smoked marijuana for the past several years, I let them smoke it, but ask them to refrain from drinking," he said. Koichi Tamura, one of the defense attorneys for Akutagawa and legal adviser to Clear Light, said Asian nations, except perhaps India where cannabis was banned under British rule, all "copied" It A YOl 1 Because if shown below at s well let you in fo price. That mean Screams and Drc you don't have to know that's a pre You get a ? money, too. Like! MindBender, the the United States only parachute dr Great American! h I I I i (! i i i i ^ i i i i i | This coupon may be t! Main Gate admission Georgia. Redeemable F j Main Gate only. Not !; with any other discou I j Good only on March I a * . ? ^ Acklil L? es marijuanc ess coi marijuana laws of weste countries after World War II. THESE NATIONS, as was t nnno ...UL T ? vaoc wiLii uapan, sKippea any d studies or researches establishing the marijuana law he said. "Until then, many Asian peopl had long been free in growing, ai some of them smoking, hen which was, and still is, a materi for the rope and fabric fiber i dustry for many centuries." 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