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T he flowers or buds o f the
female plants have properties diat
áre very well known txvmqst and
valued highly by others. But what
about its other properties? There
was a time before prohibition
when presidents grew hem p for
fiber and food on the W hite House
property. There was a time when
hemp clothing was very popular
amongst the upper class because
o f its strength ana longevity. In the
recent past, we have also discovered
that hem p can be grown for the
production o f nutritious foods and
biodiesel.
According to the USDA hemp
can produce four times the paper
per acre that trees and is less caustic
to manufacture. B M W is using
hem p in die manufacture o f some
o f its cars with the goal o f making
its cars more recyclable. Biodiesel,
health and beauty products, wood
replacement and. other construc
tion materials for concrete rein
forcement and; «ven plastic are
some o f the uses that have been
found for hemp.
A Google search o f “hemp”
will open a Pandoras Box o f prod
ucts and possibilities o f this poten
tial I “w onder”
plant. To get a better perspec
tive, Paul Stanford, founder
o f the H em p and Cannabis
Foundation established in 1999
and host o f Cannabis Com m on
Sense (Portland Public Access
Television, channel I T Fridays,
c at 8 p.m.) Stanford believes we
I need to change the law that
is. already in place regarding
medical marijuana, because he
believes it’s not working
“People are still going to jail,”
said Stanford. “Cannabis is one
o f the greatest gifts. O ur futures
,' hj jeopardy if prohibition con
tinues?’
O ne o f the biggest impacts
that legalization o f marijuana
would create is an entire new
crop for farmers. T he vast array
. o f products that industrial hem p
can be used for is tremendous.
T he options in fuels such as,
biodiesel and heating oils are
huge. Nutritious food products
like cooking oils and organic
fillers and fibers for the use in
making fabrics, paper, plastics,
concrete and other building
materials are just a few o f the
uses that Stanford talked about.
Farmers would have a profitable
and sustainable crop to produce
and sell. T he O C T A initiative
solution and
the sal-
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Clackam as C o u n ty D istrict
A ttorney, Jo h n Foote doesn’t
believe th e state needs O C T A .
"W e do n ’t need a change
o f law. In m ost cases you c a n t
go to p rison for possession or
buying,” said Foote. ,“I do n ’t
w an t to dem onize people ...
b u t w hen Use goes- up, no one
can be b etter cfff
H e also p o in te d o u t th a t
p ublic h ealth w o u ld be an area
o f concern. A stu d y fo u n d in
th e B ritish M edical Jo u rn al
(BMjX tested th e lo n g term
effects o f cannabis use over a
1*0 year p eriod th a t included
1,923 individuals th a t ranged
fro m 'a g e l^ ild to - 2 4 . T h e
stu d y fo u n d th a t long term
use o f cannabis, o f in dividu
als w h o h ad n o p rio r history
o f psychotic problem s, show ed
increased risk o f in cid en t psy act doesn’t solve any problem s,
chotic sym ptom s. T h e study b u t m akes m ore f o r everyone.
suggested th e co n tin u e d use As Foote said, “Sam e p roblem ,
o f cannabis m ig h t increase th e n o need.”
T h ere are ,o th ers w h o d o n ’t
risk for a psychotic disorder.
“D W Is
w o u ld
in crease. view this p o ten tial law change
M ariju an a w ould be easier to , as a positive th in g , p articu lar
get, like alcohol, an d m o re irre ly for kids. Rachel Forbisterr,
C o m m u n ity
sponsible [users] w o u ld o btain a ‘'C lack am as
th e d ru g i n d get b eh in d the College stu d e n t p u rsu in g an
wheel, thus causing a higher "English degree, vis' concerned
n u m b er o f D W Is b u t p o te n ab o u t th e message y oung peo-'
tia lly m o re car accidents,” said pie m ay get i f O C T A becom es
Foote. “So passing th is bill law.
“W h a t a b o u t.o u r kids?” she
y o u ld p u t m otoristsr life a t risk
.said. “W h a t k in d o f exam ple
as well.” &
A fter seeing all th e d ow n does th a t set for o u r children?
sides o f this act, it’s-easy to con W e | tell th em , ‘T h is d ru g - is
c l u d e th a t th e people w ho n eed ' O K / it’s crazy,. T h e line gets
m arijuana are already, able to pushed back m ore a n d m ore.
get it legally an d th a t legalizing It’s a classic ‘snow ball effect,’
it further-could po ten tially p u t one th in g leads to an o th er an d
lives a t , risk. W h e th e r it’s the another, till n o th in g is illegal
sm okers ow n m in d ,,o r som e anym ore.” , ,
on e else’s, it’s clear th a t this
co-host Casper Leach .(center,), receipt a
dùcer/director W illiam “B ill” A ppel (right), to the Cannabis Tax A c t on Cannabis Comm on Sense.
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CCC s new website has hits and. misses
By Brian Baldwin
E d ito r - ir i- C h ie f
T h e new face o f Clackamas
Conunum t} College’s web
site has finally been released
after being teased for m onths
and delayed from its initial
launch, b ut is it any better?
After a look at the new slim
mer and fancier website, my
answer is a mixed sort of.’
W hen compared to the
o ld website, the new version
is obviously more crisp, orga
nized and targeted to attract
new students com ing to
Clackamas. M ain categories
are divided up into ^Programs
& Certificates, Admissions
.& Aid, Student* Experience,
College Inform ation and then
News & Events, as opposed
to the previous vague catego
ries. At the right side are sub-
topics the, user can explore to
find out more information,
such as the complete course
listings for technical career
that the college offers.
Tools and forms for cur-
rent students are sc attered .
and buried around in the site.
Docum ents such as petitioning
for. graduation and transcript
requests are in Admissions &
Aid, tutoring services is buried
in Student Experience w ith no
specific office to visit, as well as
no links loi distance learning
tutoring, although it gives "the
phone num ber for the office o f
Student arid Academic Support.
Also further buried in Student
Experience - are details for the
Cougar Càvd, textbook and
childcare grants and links to find
health insurance for students.
: I f a student needed to access
the library resources, they need
to navigate through College
Information, click on the college
resources sub-topic, and then
find the library’s .website at the
bottom o f the article. \
There are other tools that are
missing from the site as well.
T here is n o academic calendar
visible, so you have to use the
websites search bar to find it.
T he search bar itself did not
work upon launch while Google
was reindexing the site. It is
working now, however search
result links are often from the
old rite and do not work. T he
biggest item missing is a link
to M oodle. Looking through
categories where a link w ould
logically be yielded no results,
even in the Distance Learning
sub-topic; T his forced m e to
lo g in to myClackamas and then
find a link at the bottom o f the
page in ‘bookmarks’ to get to the
M oodle login.
Students will likely have
M oodle saved as a bookmark
on their browsers b ut if they, are
using a com puter th a t doesn’t
have it or there is a new stu
dent looking to be introduced
to Moodle,- a convenient link on
the m ain website does n o t exist.
It would be simpler to. access
Moodle through the same rite
. so we. do n o t nave to login into
myClackamas just to login to
Moodle.
N o t everything on the site is
bad. There is another m ain sec-
‘ tion on the website that allows
users to search through a term s
classes w ithout having to log
onto CougarTrax.
Overall I think that the“ new
website is a major improvement,
but there still seems to b e areas
«. that need to be ironed out or
elaborated upon, such as a very
. lean “student life” section. My
first reaction, to the new site was
that it was one bigfocus on pub
lic relations, and why shouldn’t it
* as the face o f Clackamas online?
. N qw I feel .that the website can
function efficiendy as a resource
io .students if a few bugs were
worked out in the design.
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