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Stirred up by President and Mrs. Reagan, antidrug sentiment in America is running at its highest level in a generation. How high will be tested in Oregon in November, when voters will decide on Ballot Measure 5: Should marijuana be legalized for personal use? The Oregon Marijuana Initiative has spent about $50,000 promoting the proposition and helping collect the 87,000 signatures necessary to place it on the ballot. John Sajo, 30, the group's director, admits, "We're fighting the general drug hysteria," but hopes Oregon's voters will approve the measure, which would allow consumption...
...outside and go to the men's room and take the test right now," said he. Bond refused, as he had before, saying, "I think true leadership is to resist this demagoguery, this McCarthyism." Lewis won a narrow upset, and doubts about Bond's commitment to the antidrug crusade may have been a small factor...
...Democratic-controlled House, with Republicans in overwhelming accord, abandoned budgetary restraints -- and perhaps a few constitutional ones as well -- by passing a bill that would throw as much as $4 billion over the next three years into a wide array of antidrug efforts, permit the military to protect the country's borders from drug trafficking and impose a federal death penalty on those who commit murder while dealing in drugs. Across the country candidates were not only trying to top their opponents with radical proposals for tackling the problem but were challenging one another to urinating contests as a demonstration...
...rush by lawmakers and government officials to pass antidrug legislation and prove their own purity by submitting to urinalysis has provoked the mirth of columnists and the sighs of weary legislators who have lived through earlier drug crises. New York Times Columnist William Safire writes mockingly of "drugocrats" waging "jar wars." Says Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "We're all going to drug conferences and making the Secretary of State pee into a paper...
...crack down. Many states and Congress passed laws regulating the sale and use of cocaine and opiates; the U.S. banned the import ^ of opium in 1909. By the 1920s, public revulsion against drugs verged on the hysterical. "Drug addiction is more communicable and less curable than leprosy," declared Antidrug Crusader Richmond Hobson in a national radio address...