European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pot goes pj6u8 by Marilyn Chase new York times thousands or marijuana Iii up hand rolled at a Day on the Gratin san and there was not a single crowds of Cleveland youths participated in a Public smoke in with equal once largely a private has gone once viewed As a defiant gesture by Young people in lighting up in Public today turns fes even among the no longer confined to protest ral Lei and Rock the scent of marijuana now floats along on Wall Street at it la hawked to new York Coly tourists by vendors who awl Wurf in san i Street artist coolly offered a that a drag on his marijuana to Ine  daughter of a los Angeles narcotics Ottimer on vacation with in ume mine opera Lon report that smoking Ute of is begin Long to rival alcohol As u  safely Natam a sin month sampling of persons flopped for erratic Del vow by the California Highway Paradt ached thai roughly one in four showed blood samples containing be the Active component of people Are smoking marijuana Al professional football on commuter trains and even in certain night in a depending on How starched the Tablecloth according to one sea soned marijuana makes for a Mellower said David proprietor of the boarding a san Francisco music i rather Tike it a liquor crowd can be echoing the sentiments of Public school admin Sara ton in diverse pans of the an educator in a observed a decade ago we tried to discourage our 9th and 19th graders from smoking Tobac co in the parking hts All we can do to kelp them from coming the dais room lighter Lavisse Zaire policing and reluctant amid steadily growing social Are fre Luemly offered As  us trend to More casual Public ten Stales have reduced penalties Tor Possession of marijuana in Small variously Deff Nedas from one to three fat firs time these states jail sentences with citations fines new gang from Bat even Liberal Stales maintain Stiehr penalties for subsequent offences and for Maar Tactuk and Alaska and Colorado than it East in lowest but Public tolerance is my eth Eless More widespread than Ever Oregon was the first stale to decriminalize so called simple Possession of marijuana in Alaska lighting up in Public today turns few even among the and in supreme court subsequently ruled under the right to even that states Liberal Law could not reach people smoking in their Maine and Minne Sota joined in making it a civil and new York and Mississippi did likewise this citation Laws define simple Possession As a mis Demea nor in Ohio and North and As a Petty offence in no permanent criminal record results from such in Iho face of such reduced arrests Are increasing with toe increase in who Daw a trober from 11 million to according to the National organization for Ike Reform of marijuana since  there have been fewer arrests for marijuana Possession in Colorado and reflecting a general shift away from prosecution of Small time users to Pursuit of traffickers and those who use or sell hard we give marijuana lowest priority because of the uni Jurim in Vii in orgy because 01 the Herol problem the the Cutey of the san Francisco police from the Lack of Row ions coming the off tors would have to be ignore units never go out to look for smokers of said Stephen Downing of us us an Mies notwithstanding chief de Daws continued piss tote hard Public most users Are arrested in the Public Downing Kolin t i11 sanctions on us police Are Cooling their Pursuit of the Small Alabama Law provides up to one year in jail and a 000 Fine for simple bin in Birmingham u saw the police were chiefly its Suidt rates evolving a or to pounds of adding that be could Bee Noah into in Daboul Penona  Tea police die several reasons Tor turn inc away from marijuana one reason us whelming number of what can you do when and North Tutt it Hove to lock for there Are people at a Nek and or them Are smoking a joint asked Maine narcotics u you started Nave a riot on your As san Francisco lieutenant Casey cock its not Worth to make an arrest and release the user with a citation costs the City s30 in police order to get a even in Stales that have to decriminalize police accuse prosecutors and of v want of its hard to get a conviction on Small Quan uses of a up Ocuaman for the Chicago police judges will look at you like youre ume  has Lent an Aura of respect ammo said Sherman  in Rector of the Maine Dii Tsion of special  and president Carter this Yew threw the weight rothls behind the Federal  Effo it while Many enforcement officials around the country that  prom mrs Freer atm phere and greater Public there is evidence that a Sal use my indeed ahead Reform of Iii i usage in states that have grow on a Par with thai i two years after Oregon relaxed its marijuana Jot a Survey by the drug abuse Council i of Many believe that decaf Matlon 1 served simply  patterns of us Elhat had u Fresco is people too never paid much Attenni Josf upsurge of  1w Page 14 the stars and 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