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Marijuana Smoking Not Infrequent Local 'H opheads’ M ay T otal 300 By RON PIERRE soula, according to estimates ad cadets were dancing their dates smokers danced. information from three proved val Kaimin Reporter vanced by the most knowledgeable around the Yellowstone Room of That group is the smallest of the uable. Missoula hopheads puff pot for members of the respective clans. the Lodge, seven other couples sat three that were investigated. It is The creative potential derived profit and pleasure. While most marijuana puffing puffing pot in the dimly lit living also the least stable. Membership from marijuana was the prime rea Two of three known groups of is by University students, the drug room of a house in an affluent varies from party to party and son offered for its use. Missoula users periodically import has a substantial following among neighborhood just off campus. The no leader is discernable. Its mari “It opens my thought. While I’m enough marijuana to satisfy their high school students, and college air was filled with smoke and the juana is procured from other on the stuff, I can write twice as needs, as well as sell sufficient and high school dropouts. Pot can acrid odor of what smelled like groups and from Washington. much higher quality material. I quantities of the drug to make a be found in UM dormitories, pri smoldering rope, but it was mari Caution seems to be a watch wish the stuff were legal, because good profit. vate apartments and in homes juana. One couple danced at the word with the group. Parties are I believe the creative possibility of A substantial volume of pot is close to campus. Two UM students room’s far. end while the others moved weekly to different parts of many people could be greatly im imported into Missoula from ma admitted keeping pot supplies and lounged on the couch, chairs and the city. They may be held in proved,” said one of the clan’s jor sources in Denver, Colo., and occasionally smoking it in their floor. Sitting in a circle, they run-down rooming houses or, as poet members. from the West Coast. A month-long dorm rooms. Both said they are talked in subdued tones pausing Friday’s was, in totally respectable While the source could not be Kaimin investigation indicates be not the only users who store mari only when a pipe, not unlike a neighborhoods. pinned down, it is known the tween 200 and 300 persons are us juana in the dorms. cheap tobacco pipe that might be ‘Trip’ Makes Coed 111 group obtained a sizeable shipment ing or have used marijuana. That Users include wealthy Missoula purchased at any Missoula drug One of the group’s occasional us of hashish (a pure concentrated figure is based on confidential in businessmen’s sons and daughters, store, reached their hands. Then ers, a University woman, said form of marijuana) early in the terviews with users and by in campus nonconformists and stu they brought the stem to their lips, marijuana occasionally makes her quarter. That supply apparently filtration into two marijuana dent leaders who belong to social inhaled deeply and held the smoke violently ill. On her last pot trip, has supplied the group’s needs and groups. fraternities and sororities. Excep for what seemed like a long time. she said she felt like vomiting, but served as a source for revenue on The 40 steady marijuana users tionally bright university students The other couple occasionally dis was unable to. She said although the open market. who were interviewed revealed the to potential Job Corps candidates appeared into the kitchen and re her thought processes were clear That open market consists of us names of another 70, considered can be found at almost any week turned with what appeared to be er, she lost some coordination of ers not affiliated with specific regular pot smokers. Another 90 to end party. mixed drinks. Neither of them her arms and legs. groups. They obtain marijuana in 200 users might be found in Mis- Friday night while AFROTC joined the smokers. None of the The largest group investigated any way they can, and are not dis headquarters in one part of Mis creet in its use. soula, and confines its parties to User Displays • the neighborhood. Its 30 to 40 One of these persons displayed members include young people of two bottle containers of pot last college and high school age. It is week on campus. He was carry MONTANA KAIMIN headed by two men in their mid ing them, in his jacket pocket, in dle twenties. The crowd’s sex ratio case dormitory officials checked University of Montana Thurs., Oct. 20, 1966 ,is about equal. The steady users rooms. The user claimed he could Missoula, Montana AN INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER Vol. 69, No. 13 are largely couples who date fre study more intensively while on quently. The group’s nucleus is pot. He believes the drug im composed of college students and proved his concentration and his dropouts but high school students academic performance. are allowed on the fringe. The The majority of UM and local UM, MSU Resolve to Regulate group supplies the younger set pot users believe the drug inhibits with pot, but seldom allows the bodily desires. Asked about sex youths to attend parties. drives, hunger and physical desires With this group, pot is puffed as many responded by saying food a source of fun and “kicks,” four tasted better, music sounded better, Bobcat-Grizzly Game Weekend members said. They claimed their but sex held relatively no signifi marijuana comes from Denver. cance under the drug. The users By KATHIE HARSTAD Kay Helmer, Mark Mertens, Karyl rington, Barb LaBar, Sue Mar- After an order is placed, delivery believe the bodily needs are sec Kaimin Reporter LaSorte, Sonja Rae Eggen, and quardt, Ed Russell, Paul Stucken can be expected in three or four ondary to needs of intellect. Central Board passed a joint Scott Workman. schneider, Johanna Bangeman, days. One group member is be Users did not evidence a great resolution with the student govern Fieldhouse - Physical Plant Janice Culbertson, Jan Davis, Dave lieved to be growing marijuana at deal of concern over a law en- ment of Montana State Univer Board: Bruce Tate, chairman; Don Foy, Steve Harrington, Bonnie his Missoula home. Another mem enforcement crackdown. Despite a sity to regulate activities during Yeats, John Gilbert, Chuck Briggs, Herda, Gale Kerns, Sherry Kinche- ber commented the grower does few minor arrests, marijuana users the weekend of the Bobcat-Griz Jim Edwards, and Wayne Camp loe, Mark Penland, Debbie Ryan, not fear law enforcement officers are not worried about chances of bell. Charles Schuyler, Rick Stokes, zly game. Linda Lee Thomas, and Phillip Van will discover his project because, getting caught, although possession The resolution provides for a Finance Commission: Nick Teel, “They (the police) don’t seem to carries a penalty of six months in chairman; Vicki Anderson, Scott Ness. worry about it.” jail or $300 fine or both. joint meeting of the two groups Wheeler, Sandy James, Ben Bris Public Relations: Roger Barber, at a luncheon preceding the chairman, and Richard Taylor. Group is Sophisticated “We have no serious problem in game, for responsibility for dam coe, and Paul Stuckenschneider. The third group that was inves Missoula with marijuana, and we Missoula Affairs Commission: Publications Board: Kay Mor tigated is most sophisticated and have no indication that there will age to either campus and for the Harold Dye, chairman; Donald ton, chairman; Betsy Scanlin, victors receiving the goal post of Pam Patrick, Vonne Kay Helmer, maintains the tighest security. It be- a problem,” said Joe Hood, the losers as well as the pants of Yeats, Paul Stuckenschneider, is led by a single campus noncon Chief of Police, in an official state Dave Schuller, and Mike Hargrove. Colleen Hetherton, Ellen Broadus, formist. The membership, pri ment Monday. the student body president of the Planning Board: Loren Haarr, Connie Graham, Janet Maurer, losing team. and Louise Fenner. marily male, consists of self-styled Andrew Cogswell, UM Dean of .Central Board endorsed Refer chairman; Ed Leary, Dave Schul intellectuals, creative types and Students, denied any awareness of ler, Jerry Wagoner, Betsy High Traditions Board: Bill Berger, college bum followers. The females widespread use of marijuana. He endum 64, a three-cent tax incre tower, Bob Fletcher, Jim Edwards, chairman; Bill Lester, Lynn Wicks, ment on each package of cigarettes, Patty OTLoughlin, Cathy Peck, who gain admittance, range from said although a few students may with the funds to be used for re Arnold Swanberg, Meg Lavold, Missoula working girls to pickups be involved, nothing has come to Bob Murdo, and Dan Foley.