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.”
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