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Gregory Y. Porter, director of the Washington-based National Organization to Reform the Marijuana Laws (NORML), calls the war "a government instrusion on civil liberties...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Legalize It, Don't Criticize It | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

...unfortunate that one of the worst side effects of this drug war stuff is the climate of fear," Porter says. "A lot of it's propaganda, and a lot of it's very simplistic, like Just Say No,' which isn't very effective. I can only hope that this tide of hysteria can be stemmed before we end up giving up all these liberties...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Legalize It, Don't Criticize It | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

...establishment) "might lead somewhere, but we didn't know where." What makes this historical point relevant and disconcerting is that the same can be said about current White House support for unrestricted Choice: no one knows what it will produce. For as Bush White House domestic policy adviser Roger Porter puts it, "The Administration is committed to shaking up the system and breaking the mold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lamar Alexander: Tough Choice | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...Cambridge City Council passed its nobillboards law, provoking Ackerly Communications to post a huge, ugly billboard in Porter Square reminding Cantabridgians about the Fifth Amendment. Not to be outdone, Dapper O'Neil and the Boston City Council passed a law cracking down on 130-decibel boom boxes. Yet the beat goes...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: ...Meanwhile In Boston, The Biggest News Was Still the Sox | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

Gates says he has found a home in Cambridge. Colleagues have been helpful and enthusiastic in helping start what is essentially a new program. Already Gates has brought in two new faces to the board of directors of the DuBois Institute: Porter University Professor Helen Vendler and Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Opening the Gates to an Afro-Am Revival | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

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