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|