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~CL ac I< amas F^ ìnt NEW...... http://depts.clackamas.cc.or.us/print /èdnesday January 23, 2002 Clackamas Community College Volume XXXVII, Issue Oregon City, Oregon Local doctor supports puffing for pain MAGGIE JIRASEK Editor-in-Chief Dr. Phillip Leveque, a 78 year-old Molalla osteo path who signed about 40 percent of the approved marijuana cards in Oregon, spoke at Clackamas last Fri day, Jan. 18. He encouraged students and faculty to favor the use of marijuana for medical purposes. “I am in total favor of smoking marijuana for medical purposes,” Leveque announced at the meeting. Currently, Leveque is under investigation by the Board of Medical Examiners for allegedly authorizing pa tients to receive medical marijuana without examin ing them. Under the new rules proposed by the state last summer, a physician is required to review the patient’.s medical record, ex amine the patient and keep a written file. According to The Or egonian, 2,351 Oregonians have received cards allow ing them to grow and use marijuana for medical pur poses since Oregon voters approved the Medical Mari juana Act in 1998. Leveque agrees that smoking mari himself signed over 1,000 of juana helps a lot when it comes to dealing with his dis these cards. “I do not use marijuana ease. “It helps to ease the myself, although I would qualify easily. I don’t want pain. If I don’t smoke, I lose people to think that this is a lot of weight because I lose my ap just a way petite,” he for me to get mari said. “If I juana for don’t smoke, Marijuana has I just can’t my own eat. It’s hard purposes,” not killed any- for me to he ex body, ever. keep my food plained. Dr. Phillip down. Before leveque Leveque I started presented osteopath smoking, I several rea was losing a sons why lot of weight. the U.S. I was only 99 , government should legalize marijuana pounds. Then I started and make it available in phar smoking and I gained a lot macies and liquor stores as of my weight back. I have well as pointed out some of been smoking marijuana the disadvantages. for 18 years now.” According to Leveque, “Marijuana is a great medicine for people who the U.S. government would have AIDS, any kind of can benefit from legalizing the cer, epilepsy, migraines, drug. “If the government le Alzheimer and suffer under severe pain,” Leveque said. galized it, it would bring in “It works very well to elimi about $20 million, just like nate the pain. Marijuana has tobacco.” After stressing the not killed anybody, ever.” Wilkerson Beeks, an positive side of using mari AIDS patient from Mollala, juana for medical purposes, should be used for Leveque admitted that medical purposes there are disadvan but the whole pro tages. A great concern cess has to be in the audience was regulated very that people could carefully.” abuse the drug and not only use it for medical purposes but also for their own pleasure, j Another concert was that it takes away the ability to concentrate and a short- t e r m memory d e v e 1 - ops. " I do recognize that this is a severe problem, that’s all I can say to that,” Leveque stated E 1 i s s a McGarry, tri-city al ternative program secretary at Clackamas who at tended Friday's meeting, says she agrees with Leveque that using marijuana under the right circumstances can be Dr. Phillip Leveque spoke to a good thing. . students and faculty about “Leveque brought the issue of using up a lot of good points,” marijuana for medical McGarry said. "I think it purposes last Friday. Clackamas prepares for budget ax FRANK JORDAN News Editor The second of two in formational budget forums for the staff of Clackamas Community College was held last week in the Com munity Center. Dr. Earl P. “Joe” Johnson, president of the college, and Associate Dean Roxie Hobart, col lege controller, stood be fore a group of about 50 people and outlined what they believed the.Oregon What's Inside? Opinión...Page 2 News...Pages 3-4 Feature..Jiages 5-6 A & E..J*ages 7-9 Sports. ..Pages 10-11 The End...Page 12 State Legislature would do as far as community college funding and how Clackamas would deal with the projected shortfall. The proposed state budget for community col leges calls for an eight- per cent reduction in funding for the 2002-03 school year. Clackamas has taken these figures and is at tempting to come up with a budget plan to help, as President Johnson said it, “soften the blow that will come down upon us.” Clackamas Commu nity College is looking at a $700,000 deficit for the next school year. Other community colleges in the state are looking at any thing from salary rollbacks in their staffing to tuition increases. For example, Chemeketa Community College in Salem is look ing at increasing tuition immediately by $4 a credit hour. Clackamas is also planning a tuition increase, but right now it would be only $1 per credit hour. A suggestion on the table does call for a $2 increase per credit hour, but right now that is only a sugges tion. For the 2001-03 bud get biennium, Clackamas was budgeted by the state to receive close to $32.8 million. The college at the time was anticipating a bud get reduction and chose to receive only $32.1 million from the state, a two- per cent reduction. The col lege is anticipating having its money reduced by a to tal of five to six percent when the legislature meets in special session next month in Salem. Clackamas is much better off than other com munity colleges in the re gion. The college has fore- seen some of what lies ahead and has tried to make budget reductions over the past several years to help save money and build up its contingency fund. This, MIKE POLLOCK / Clackamas Print Associate Dean Roxie Hobart discusses the possibilities of budget cuts for Clackamas at the budget forumheld Jan. 16, 17. and a significant increase in enrollment over the past year plus some increases in prop erty tax revenue, has helped to cushion the blow that the college could receive from the state. President Johnson ex plained some of what has been taking place on the state level over the last several months, and he anticipates. See Budget, page 3 10
