In an effort to reduce pot use
House eyes paraphernalia bills
By GREG WASSON
Of the Emerald
SALEM — Oregon was the
first state to decriminalize
marijuana, but some legislators
would like to control the drug’s
use by restricting devices used
to smoke marijuana.
Two house bills would make it
a crime to sell paraphernalia to
people under 21, and one would
make it illegal to let an under-21
minor on the premises where
the devices are sold.
A third bill would make it
illegal to possess the
paraphernalia.
One bill, HB 2422, was in
troduced at the request of
PEACE, a Lane County organ
ization dedicated to legalizing
marijuana cultivation.
IFC gives Crisis Center raise
The Incidental Fee Committee
had no qualms about funding
the University Crisis Center
Wednesday night.
Accepting ASUO Pres. Dave
Eaton's recommendation, tfpe
IFC gave the center $7,290 for
the coming year, a $2500
increase from last year.
Eaton said the center has
staff members trained to deal
with the special problems of
University students.
It’s also important that
24-hour service remain
available at the center, Eaton
added.
“We’re getting away cheap if
a student’s life can be saved.”
Another group wasn't as
lucky as the crisis center. The
Psychology Clinic asked for
$1,861 but received only $382.
The clinic requested most of
Editor rips proposed bill
SALEM (AP) - A Eugene
newspaper editor says a bill
proposed by the state labor
commissioner is a “brutal
assault on the integrity and the
intent of the public records
law"
The measure (SB216) would
amend Oregon’s public records
law to require that names of
parties filing civil rights com
plaints be withheld until the
complaint was resolved or until
charges were issued.
Commissioner Mary Wendy
Roberts told the Senate Justice
Committee Wednesday night
that the bill would help her office
settle civil rights complaints by
conciliation rather than legal
action. She said disclosure of
complaints and publicity about
them could polarize the parties.
“Premature public disclosure
obviously hampers an inves
tigation — but (it also hampers)
a settlement in which guilt is not
stipulated but an agreement is
reached,” she testified.
She said the proposed law
would not prevent the parties in
a civil rights dispute from going
to the media and discussing it.
Barrie Hartman, managing
editor of the Eugene Register
Guard, urged the Justice Com
mittee to throw the bill “on the
scrap heap of well-intentioned
but bad-for-Oregon legislation.
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the funds — $1,404 — to
enhance the quality of the clinic
without having to charge
students more than $3 per
counseling session.
But IFC member Richard
Sontag suggested tfie clinic
raise its prices since psychia
trists are charging "50 bucks an
hour downtown."
The offset fee was defeated
unanimously.
In other business, Legal
Services was allotted $30,061.
Much of Legal Services' budget
goes toward paying a part-time
attorney’s salary.
The Gay People's Alliance
received $3,089 and the Univer
sity YMCA was allocated $721, a
$10 decrease from last year.
The Eugene Switchboard’s
budget will be $2,642.
In addition to prohibiting the
sale of the devices to minors,
the bill also allows those over
twenty-one to have three
marijuana plants and up to an
ounce of marijuana if they are
licensed by the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission.
The bill sets the license fee at
$20 per year.
Another bill, sponsored by
Rep. Billy Bellamy, R-Culver,
has similar anti-paraphernalia
provisions, but doesn't legalize
cultivation.
A third proposal would make
it illegal for anyone to possess
any device with the intent to use
it to "inject, inhale or otherwise
introduce into the human body
a controlled substance."
Each bill defines
paraphernalia differently. The
first, HB 2422, list many types
of paraphernalia, including
pipes, masks, and roach clips.
The second defines
paraphernalia as “equipment,
products and materials
designed or intended for use in
consuming drugs.”
It also prohibits the sale to
minors of pipes designed to
smoke marijuana.
The third bill instructs Oregon
court’s to consider 14 extenu
ating circumstances — such as
the owner's criminal record and
the proximity of the object to
drugs.
The bills have been referred
to the Committee on Judiciary
and have not yet been the
subject of a public hearing.
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