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Pot: getting back to NORML Editor's note: This article is the second in a series on background information and the possibility of forming a chapter of NORML on the Clackamas Community Col lege Campus. :ow 86 percent of the public no longer favors Empire's national resource farm. I sending marijuana smokers to jail," says required and encouraged hemp prd Keith Stroup, NORML Director, "an esti in the colonies to promote and si mated 600 million dollars is spent each year its selfish mercantile interests, and I on marijuana enforcement. lenge Russia's near-monopoly on worll "The frightening result is that seven out of production. ten of all drug law arrests in this country Britain's weavers were skilled at] are for marijuana violations. The annual The next time you light up a joint think ing the rough hemp fabric into fil B, No. 7 of those people in jail right now for doing toll is an almost half million of otherwise napkins, sheets, bags and the ctj law abiding citizens tragically and needlessly Union Jack flags. The English govej the same thing. caught up in a heavy-handed criminal justice and some of the colonial legislature Quoth the NORML, "Nevermore." system. Even those who don't go to jail are bounties for hemp cultivation, and ! Virginia actually imposed penalties I left with the scar of a life-long criminal sons who did not cultivate hemp." ■ arrest record." By Jerry Wheeler Marijuana, or hemp as it was called, was "Whatever happens, Stroup sees Photo Editor an essential crop in colonial America. First staying with the politics of pot ufl planted in Jamestown in 1611, as required fight is won," reports the New YorJ by the settlers' contract with the Crown's Magazine, in an interview with Keith; Now that Oregon has decriminalized mari Virginia Company, marijuana was cultivated "'If they freed all the prisoners tonB juana, no one in this state can be thrown in I'd quit,' he says, 'but short of that throughout the colonies for the long fiber jail for possessing less than an ounce of strands of the stalk. Many basic necessities leave. If NORML fired me, I'd do it : grass, right? for the self-sufficient colonists were made own. Do I go get rich as a lawyer w Want to bet? friends are in jail? Morally, I can't 1 from the hearty plant. "Marijuana offenses, even the most minor ones, are the subject of federal as well as state criminal laws. Under current federal law, the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 By Lenna Fitch (Public Law 91-513), possession of a small Staff Writer Jazz artist Chuck Mangione brifl amount of marijuana carries a possible one- quartet and star vocalist Esther Sat:m^en all else fails, one takes year jail term and a fine up to $5,000. to Portland's Paramount North westing board When someone is caught with a small concert Saturday, Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. <-Hope ¡t WOrks. . .or we'll s amount of marijuana, the authorities have Educated at the prestigious Ed |\/|j|<e Ayers, student bod^ the choice of prosecuting under either fed School of Music, Mangione served his The Clackamas Community C eral or state laws. Even in the eight states cal apprenticeship while playing wit|ted student Government (/ that have 'decriminalized' under state law, jazz greats as Keith Jarrett, Chick )animously to support Bonnie the federal law still remains technically avail Maynard Ferguson and Art Blakey. I\ an|art major confined to a able. Complete decriminalization requires a is leaving his mark all over jazz landth Multiple Sclerosis, who's I change in both federal and state laws." instrumentalist, lyricist, composer, arjua| access to classes. This statement, from the "National Or and conductor. ganization for the Reform of Marijuana --------------------- "The board should take the This melodic style provides a solidiving the problem," said Jeri Laws' NORML - A special report", means dation for singer Esther SatterfieldljS|an| -[he student bod^ simply that the work in Oregon is far from appears on the bill as special guest. Bohnie Nelson is on the ag finished as far as decriminalization is con Mangione, whose new A & M iovl|0 CCC Board of Educat A bottle of cerned. The fact remains - anyone can still cannabis fluid "Main Squeeze," is due for releasee ^ard meets at 7:30 p.m. o go to-jail for smoking marijuana. extract, listed in month, plays the flugelhorn and ai'ednlsday of each month and Seventy-one percent of the adult popu the Parke, Davis and electric piano. Other members acouraged to attend, & Company's lation views the problem of 'heavy drinking' 1929-30 quartet include Joe LaBarbera on f Even though the law requ as very serious, while only 48 percent feel physician's sion. Frank Gravis on bass guitar andHeral and state institutions that way about marijuana. This is a com catalogue of Vadala on saxophone and flute. icilities safe and accessible to plete reversal of public attitudes since 1969, pharmaceutical Tickets for the Northwest Releasingrrs0||S (Section 504 of the R products. It was when 73 percent viewed pot smoking as used legally for are on sale at the Ticket Place at Lipljt), Nelson found 17 stairs 'very serious', compared to 53 percent who medicinal Stevens and Son, First Federal in V«dlIwo of her art classes a felt the same about heavy drinking. purposes. ver and the Paramount. She declined the many of The same trend is evident when people jecause of the risks involved in are asked to choose between marijuana and alcohol as 'more dangerous for people in ip and down the steep staircas "One source," states The Leaflet, NOR- the country to use'. hair. ML's quarterly publication, "reports that Although about three out of ten feel She hopes to see a wheel talleu. The Montgomery Eleva both are equally dangerous, 35 percent sin by 1630 one-half of the winter clothing gle out alcohol, compared to 29 percent who worn by the colonists were made from hemp istimates the cost of this inst< fiber." The tough fiber was also used to jetween $5,000 and $6,000. choose marijuana. |~hat doesn't seem like a Ic "In 1969, a substantial 58 percent of the make twine, blankets, and long-lasting paper public felt that marijuana was more danger for Bibles and currency. ¡aid Nelson, "when we consi Early transportation also depended on ous than alcohol," states Louis Harris, re school can afford a "goof off' ferring to the latest Harris survey on mari hemp. Ships were rigged with hemp sails Community Center with 3 p and ropes, and canvas, a coarse hemp fabric juana published in the Chicago Tribune on foosball tables, and 4 pin ball that derives its name from cannabis, covered let alone the cost of the roor January 26, 1976. many of the wagons which took the pioneers the paneling and fixtures. At t The film "Reefer Madness" was shown they deny handicapped studei recently at the Clackamas Community Col westward. THOUSANDS ON FILE The colonies rapidly became the British lege Fireside Lounge with a good turn-out. tion." The film depicts a group of high-school stu Shortly after enrollment th Send $1.00 for your up-to-date, made her problem known tc dents who try marijuana, with murder, rape, 192-page, mail order catalog. NEW YORK CHARTER FLIGHTS prostitution and insanity the end result of stration. CCC President John I CHRISTMAS VACATION 11926 Santa Monica Blvd. their folly. that every attempt would be m Los Angeles, Ca. 90025 $279 ALL INCL. The problem is that this 1936 release was the situation. made in perfect seriousness, and substan "But I still can't get up th United Airlines round trip tially helped in the forming of today's harsh ' Nelson. from Portland penalties for pot. Nelson made arrangements Enclosed is $1.00. Hotels, Transfers, Please rush the catalog to: It was one of the classic examples of instructor Leland John, to do Taxes and Tips propaganda in this country. NORML acquired Name ____________________ - ments in painting and drawinc BREAK AWAY TOURS distribution rights to the film in 1973 and pays tuition and has a rigl Address_________________ _ uses the profits in their fight for decriminal instruction. P.O. Box 313 City_____________________ , ization. John said that she does Cathlamet, Wash. 98612 State____________________ i Zip "While a nationwide survey by the Na suggested that since she is ii (206) 795-8734 tional Institute on Drug Abuse shows that pernaps CCC could pay her tuit , /"J college until the situation is co Page 12 Thursday, November , Qne factor to jje COnsidere to bo Jazz artist cornili ACADEMIC RESEARCH PAPERS