Mothers Go To Pot

A group of Michigan mothers are fighting to keep their oiïspring out of jail. The mothers have announced their support of the drive to take to the people the question of decriminalizing marijuana possession by putting it on the ballot in November. If 265,000 certified signatures are collected by July 7, people can vote next November and strike down the irrational marijuana laws which "send hundreds of lour sons and daughters needlessly to jail. Our children should not be harassed and subject to prison life for smoking a flsLSefcFárnilies have been torn apart by these unfair and unnecessary laws; mothers have been the victims of untold anguish as their children are taken away from them by the state." In their statement the mothers, including Elsie Sinclair, 60-year-old mother of John Sinclair, concluded "Millions of people smoke marijuana. Mothers smoke marijuana. We can't turn back the tide. But unless we get it on the ballot we face years of more harassment and 'arrests while the courts and legislatures move on the matter at a snail's r"N' "