Editors’ Note: The author of this article is currently doing time in a federal prison in West Virginia on a conviction of possession of two grams of marijuana. Prior to his transfer, he spent close to a month in Wayne …
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Docs for Dope
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
The New Physician, a national medical journal with a monthly circulation of over 60,000 physicians and medical students, has become the first major national medical journal to speak out in favor of the legalization of marijuana. An editorial in the …
“If I Had a Gun…”
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
Special to the Fifth Estate GREAT FALLS, Montana—A local boy has made good out in the wooly West. Mickey Gordon, formerly of Detroit, was charged in Montana Federal District Court with threatening the life of President Nixon. Gordon is a …
The Appeal of Anarchy
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
Amidst ecstatic visions, Anarchy appears. She says: Whenever you need anything, once a month at the full moon, assemble in the wilderness—in the forest, on the heath, by the seashore—for the state of nature is a community of freedoms. Recognize …
Who Said This?
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
“The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are full of students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might and the republic is in danger. “Yes, danger from …
Fight Back
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
A preliminary statewide planning meeting of a group formed to combat the special state Senate Investigating Committee looking into campus problems will be held March 15. The Michigan Coalition for Political Freedom will meet at St. Joseph’s Church that Saturday …
David and Roselyn Benefit
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
The Monteith Student Board will present a concert featuring David & Roselyn Wednesday and Thursday evenings, March 12 and 13 in WSU’s Upper DeRoy Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Canned Heat-ed
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
The Canned Heat came to Detroit to do a gig at the Masonic Temple and got busted by the real heat. Canned Heat’s drummer Adolph De Laparra was charged with being a disorderly person and the group’s equipment manager Ron …
Bombers Bound Over
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
Recorder’s Court Judge Thomas Poindexter has bound over for trial seven of the nine persons accused of conspiring to bomb police stations, draft boards, and the Ann Arbor CIA office last Fall. Poindexter has apparently already decided that the accused …
Friends of Democracy
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
Twenty months after the coup d’etat of April 21, 1967 Greece is still under a military dictatorship which rules by decree and the gun. Fundamental democratic and human rights of the people are still denied. Many Greeks have been murdered. …