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First, the CRR badly needs some sort of screening procedure to weed out frivolous cases from those which merit hearings. Of the 19 cases just concluded, 10 resulted in acquittal: many would have been laughed out of any court in the country. Charges were brought with no evidence, on the basis of motives unclear at best and political at worst. All those charged were obliged to spend upwards of twenty hours preparing refutation; finding witnesses; reviewing films; obtaining letters; meeting with counsel. Were the CRR to review beforehand the basis of each complaint, such wasted time (both on the part...
...innocent time, the Federal Government encouraged the farmers of Cass County, Mich., to cultivate marijuana. It was known then as hemp, and thought to be useful mainly for the World War II production of rope. The farmers of Cass County and some other parts of the U.S. sowed the weed in home-front zeal...
When the U.S. discovered nylon rope, the farmers plowed under their cannabis, but the wild weed does not die easily. Each spring new plants appeared, and winds and birds carried the seed throughout Cass County. With the coming of the pot culture, the young developed an unexpected passion for farming, sneaking into Cass County's fallow fields by night to harvest the wild grass...
...Crimson attack levelled a whopping 79 shots at the hapless Horton. "I kind of lost track," Horton said. "They'd just weed their way through our mid-field and score. I didn't think they were shooting that well. They could have scored a lot more...
...bottom, I had a strike that seemed to turn the boat around. When I set the hook, it felt like there was an anvil on the other end. Diving and circling the boat, the enormous thing finally came boiling out of the water. Then it tore off for a weed bed and snapped the 20-lb. test line like a kite string. That evening under the oaks I told of my adventure with a "lunker as big as a beer barrel in this special hole in the backwaters." "Where's the hole?" one fisherman asked. "Where?" I just smiled...