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Marijuana Bill Trips Michigan Senate
by Ben Habeebe
Fifth Estate # 27, April 1-15, 1967
State Senator Roger Craig (D-Dearborn) has introduced a bill in the Michigan Senate that would exempt marijuana from the application of the general narcotics act.
Sinclair Talks Marijuana in R.O.
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
Editor’s note: Detroit poet John Sinclair talked about marijuana at Royal Oak’s Kimball High School, and Royal Oak hasn’t quite gotten over it yet. Below is a story reprinted from that city’s newspaper, the Royal Oak Tribune:
LEMAR Meeting Sparks Marijuana Campaign
by Joe Mulkey
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
LEMAR’s second meeting happened Jan. 4th at the Artist’s Workshop and I mean IT REALLY HAPPENED, over fifty people showed up. The place was full of happy, alive, enthusiastic human beings. It was just downright out-of-sight. We’re getting together—here’s what …
Marijuana is Good Medicine
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970
WASHINGTON (LNS)—Marijuana may well be very good medicine for victims of tetanus, migraine, high blood pressure, and sunstroke, according to long-secret medical research just made public. Encouraging studies, done ten years ago at the Army chemical warfare laboratory at the …
Will Marijuana Save World Capitalism?
by E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
a review of The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of the Cannabis Plant, Marijuana Prohibition, & How Hemp Can Still Save the World, Jack Herer, HEMP/Queen of Clubs Publishing, 200 pp., Van Nuys CA, 1992 edition, $14.95
Dope Penalties Reduced Under New Bill
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 108, June 25-July 8, 1970
As prematurely, but accurately reported in our last issue the Michigan House approved a bill June 19 lessening the penalties for possession of two ounces or less of marijuana. There were only three dissenting votes on the bill that would …
New Bethel: People’s Victory!
by Frank Joyce
Fifth Estate # 108, June 25-July 8, 1970
Alfred Hibbitt: acquitted. Raphael Viera: acquitted. Clarence “Chaka” Fuller: acquitted. Kenneth Vern Cockrell: charges dismissed. The New Bethel case is not over. But the recent acquittals of Raphael Viera and Clarence Fuller have put it at a new stage. Every …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 173, December 16, 1972-January 5, 1973
Dear F.E. A few months ago we read a blurb in your “letters” column from a couple of prisoners in an Ohio penitentiary who wanted to hear from any of your readers. We wrote, expecting to join the hundreds …
Far-Out Shorts
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 173, December 16, 1972-January 5, 1973
Following hard on the heels of such pictures as “Willard,” “Ben,” and the near-interminable “Planet of the Apes” series, Universal Pictures is now producing “Ssssssss,” a movie about a man turned into a giant king cobra. Undoubtedly, it will be …
The FE Speaks with Detroit’s Radical Judge
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 173, December 16, 1972-January 5, 1973
The election of Justin Ravitz to a seat on Recorder’s Court came as no surprise to most Detroiters who had watched the campaign, and had seen Ravitz’s clear-cut lead in the spring primary.
Sinclair appeal denied
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971
The following excerpts are taken from John Sinclair’s statement on the Court of Appeals decision, Feb. 17, 1971:
Just-Us
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971
Recorder’s Court Judge Robert DeMascio is a vicious man who wields a heavy hand against poor and black defendants that have the misfortune to enter “his” courtroom. He is almost as hard on youth dope offenders that come before him. …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971
Two days after the appearance of the Fifth Estate’s special women’s issue it was completely sold out, necessitating the printing of another 5,000 for a total press run of 19,000. The reprint is without the regular calendar, classifieds and is …
Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967
FAMOUS FILMS OF FAMOUS DIRECTORS SERIES. VIRIDIANA (1961) (Luis Bunuel) April 15 in Community Arts Aud., WSU at 8:15 Adm. AMORE IN CITTA (Love in the City—1953) (Michelangelo Antonioni) April 22 in Community Arts Aud., WSU at 8:15 Adm. ORDET …