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System ‘gone amuck’ Groups criticize pot laws By MIKE RUST Of the Emerald Law abuse as well as drug abuse has advocates of libera lized marijuana laws con cerned. At a Tuesday press confer ence, members of People Ef fectively Appealing for Cannabis Equality and Oregon ians Cooperating to Reduce Drug Abuse described abuses by law enforcement agencies in Klamath and Douglas counties and said such abuses occur because the law doesn’t differ entiate between personal and commercial marijuana use. This results in “a legal sys tem, which in our opinion, has gone completely amuck," said PEACE member Joe Wilson. Wilson had particularly strong words for Klamath County sher iff’s. Wilson said narcotics officers in Klamath County are using informers. After arresting in formers on other charges, sher iff’s deputies tell informers to frame citizens, he said. When narcotics officers don't like elected officials’ policies, they can use informers against them also, Wilson added. The Attorney General’s office is in vestigating the wiretapping of Scholar describes women’s inequity By JANE DE VIRGILIO Of the Emerald Implementing pay equity, a national childcare policy, and a serious attack on segregation in the labor market should be the imperative goals of working women, a leading women’s labor expert said Tuesday. Alice Cook, Cornell University professor emerita and advocate of equal employment opportun ity and equal pay for women, spoke on “Women, Work, and Equity” before about 50 people in the EMU. The concept of equal pay for equal work is a historic slogan, Cook said. But it is far from a reality with only 18 percent of jobs filled interchangeably by men and women. “Most of the 40 percent of women now in the labor force work part time, in segregated jobs, at lower pay, and in addi tion to caring for a home and children," Cook said. Alleviation of lower pay can begin through the comparable worth system, Cook said. Jobs are evaluated in a system of weights and points with a similar number of points equaling a similar salary level, she expl ained. Nine states will soon un dertake comparable worth eva luations, Cook said. Relieving pay inequalities will be costly and difficult under current economic conditions, she added. “I am pessimistic about further investigation into the matter by the Equal Em ployment Opportunity Commis sion since Eleanor Holmes Nor ton is no longer overseeing that program. “We have no concept of equal rights and duties in the home and this is why working women still carry an almost total burden of this responsibility,” she said. “We have to put more emphasis on the role of both parents in childcare.” Home responsibilities, com bined with an inadequate supply of day care, creates a hardship for women who want to advance in the labor market, Cook said. ‘‘We are also the only leading industrial nation that has no institutionalized support system for women on maternity leave and offer no guarantee she can return to her job later,” Cook said. But to correct these ina dequacies, women need institu tional alternatives to litigation, she said. She suggested special grievance procedures and arbitration as an effective start. Cook cited a recent Ford Foundation study that found courts are more likely to favor minorities over women in dis crimination cases. Some judges seem to believe that alleviating discrimination would result in social changes that are too sweeping, she said. the Klamath County district attorney’s office, he said. “We may not have the same situation in Lane County, but when we have state laws as we do, it’s important to change them because they’re being used against ordinary users.” The status of several bills concerning marijuana and drug abuse under consideration by the Legislature also was dis cussed at the press conference. PEACE has supported HB 2422, a bill that would outlaw the sale of drug paraphernalia to people under 18 and originally would have allowed adults to grow up to three marijuana plants for personal use. However, the House Judiciary Committee last week deleted the section on home growing while passing the bill. Those pushing for the recog nition of a distinction between commercial and personal use of marijuana are pinning their hopes on amendments to HB 2897, which was introduced at the request of Lane County Dis trict Attorney Pat Horton. The bill, which would in crease fines for possession and cultivation of over an ounce of marijuana to $25,000 and $50,000, was tabled with the expressed intention of amend ing the bill to differentiate between commercial and per sonal use. Two bills that PEACE op posed — one calling for the outlaw of paraphernalia and the other calling for the prohibition of the sale of paraphernalia to people under 21 — were defeat ed in committee. HB 2066, which would make selling imitation drugs and catering to drug abuse a felony, was tabled for possible amendment. PEACE supported the bill, with an amendment calling for lower penalties, which Wilson described as being “more rea listic.” CASH For Textbooks Mon.-Fri. Smith Family Bookstore 768 E. 13th 1 Bl. From Campus Ph 345-1651 Human Sexuality Symposium May 15-17 Specialists in sex therapy, gender identity and family life will be featured at the 6th Annual Pathfinder’s Symposium. Speakers Robert Stoller, Psychiatry professor - University of Washington Lonnie Barbach, Clinical professor of Medical Psychology - University of California Medical School Richard Green, Psychiatry professor - State University of New York at Stony brook. UO Students $25/General Public $65 Daily fees: UO Students $10, Friday Night/UO Students $5 General Public $30 UO credit available. For registration and more information contact the Continuation Center, 1479 Moss, 686-4231. Co-sponsored by the Department of Counseling and Fducational Psychology and the Continuation Center. 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