40 years ago: Kansas AG leads another drug raid in Lawrence

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 12, 1974:

Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller made front-page news again after having led 150 police agents in a Lawrence drug raid at about 4 a.m. today. Twenty-eight of the 30 persons arrested in the raid were booked into the county jail on charges ranging from illegal sale of cocaine and opium to illegal delivery of marijuana. Armed with 12 search warrants and 33 arrest warrants, the officers had been assigned to teams before going to 25 different locations in Lawrence. Arrests or attempts to locate persons had been made at eight rooms in Kansas University dormitories and four apartments at Jayhawker Towers Apartments. Miller reported that some students had thrown drugs out their windows when officers entered the dormitories. Officers reported that one room in McCollum Hall where a person had been arrested had contained two marijuana plants about 30 inches tall. A wide variety of smoking equipment and scales were also impounded during the raid. Upon leaving Lawrence for Topeka at about 6:30 a.m., Miller promised to return “and perhaps quicker than you think.”