O’Shaughnessy’s • Summer 2009 Could you pass? Oaksterdam University’s Final Exam The Oaksterdam University final exam 4. Under current Federal law how many plants may you grow? is administered on a pass/fail basis. To a. 99 b. 0 pass, students must answer 75% of the c. 35 d. 12 questions correctly. About half of OU’s graduates complete the test (it’s a take- 5. If the police come to your house they are home) and send it in. Those who pass get allowed inside if they: a. Have a search warrant with your name a certificate that may help them obtain and a judge’s signature on it. employment at a cannabis dispensary. b. claim 911 calls came from your house. The exam consists of 140 questions c. Both a and b. plus an essay. OU staff create a different d. None of the above. test for each class, drawing on a larger 6. If an officer asks you to step out of your set of 300 questions. vehicle, it is okay to lock the doors after you Answers at bottom of next two pages. OAKSTERDAM UNIVERSITY is located at Broadway and 19th Street in Oakland. exit your vehicle. a. True b. False Please circle the letter of the correct More than 2,000 students from all over the country have taken OU courses on how to answer for each question. operate a cannabis dispensary. OU has added a Los Angeles campus and may open one 7. The Fourth Amendment is your right to: in Michigan, where a medical marijuana law was enacted by voters in 2008. a. a fair trial. Politics and History: b. remain silent. 1. In which two years did the Federal 9. The city of Oakland currently permits c. not self incriminate. 18. Which of the following is NOT a strat- Government succeed in passing measures how many dispensaries: d. right to be free from warrantless search egy for federal drug policy reform: to criminalize and/or prohibit access to a. 1 b. 4 c. 12 d. 32 and seizure. cannabis? a. Ending funding for DEA raids of dis- a. 1914 and 1937 10. Which of the following is NOT true pensaries. 8. The Fifth Amendment is your right to: b. 1937 and 1969 about Measure Z?: b. Working with the executive, congres- a. a fair trial. c. 1937 and 1970 a. Passed in 1994 with 65% of the voter sional, legislative, state, and city officials to b. privacy. d. 1914 and 1969 support. end prohibition of cannabis. c. not self-incriminate. b. Makes private cannabis sales, cultiva- c. U.S. withdrawal from the 1961 Single d. all of the above. 2. What benefits may be expected from tion, and possession Oakland’s lowest police Convention Treaty. 9. The best place to keep cannabis while ending the prohibition on cannabis? priority. d. Repealing the Hinchey-Rohra-bacher traveling in a car is: a. Thousands of non-violent people in jail c. Establishes an Oversight Committee Amendment. a. out of sight. would potentially be freed. appointed by city council and the Mayor to 19. NORML is an acronym for: b. in the glove box. b. Crime will decrease. implement the new law. a. the newest reform organization c. hidden in the door frame. c. The industry could create thousands of d. Endorses a tax and regulate system for b. an Oaksterdam dispensary d. locked in the trunk out of reach. tax-paying jobs with employee benefits. cannabis similar to the alcohol industry. c. National Organization for the Reform of d. All of the above. e. Allows Oakland Police to Focus on 10. If you tell your landlord you are grow- Marijuana Laws. violent crime. ing cannabis, it gives them legal protection: 3. The Schafer Commission found: d. National Organization for the Repeal of a. True b. False a. Cannabis to be the most toxic herb on 11. Does Measure Z allow people to smoke Marijuana Laws Earth. in public? 11. The three levels in police encounter 20. In the article entitled “Latest UCSF b. Incarceration is an effective punishment a. Yes. b. No. in order are: Study points to cannabis as ‘Wonder Drug’ for cannabis consumers. a. detention, conversation, arrest. for pain,” professor Lester Grinspoon com- c. Cannabis is not as harmful as previously 12. What three factors does the federal b. conversation, detention, arrest. mented: thought and the government should decrimi- government consider when classifying a sub- c. casual conversation, formal conversa- a. It is groundbreaking proof that cannabis nalize some cannabis use. stance in Schedule I?: tion, arrest. a. The substance has a high potential for is medicinal. d. All of the above. d. conversation, arrest, detention abuse, leads to other harder drugs, and has b. This is all good news, but it should not 4. In cities like Seattle, what trend is no- no medicinal value. be news at all. 12. The Patriot Act increases police power ticeable when voters designate cannabis the b. The substance has medicinal value and c. The study proves that cannabis is not during traffic stops: lowest law enforcement priority? low potential for abuse and does not lead to helpful with neuropathic pain. a. True b. False a. Very few people get arrested for can- use of other harder drugs. d. The study used high-grade herb provided 13. Undercover police must admit they’re nabis anymore. c. The substance is widely used, narcotic, by the government. officers if you ask them: b. The number of cases against Black sus- and popular among teens. a. True. b. False pects increased compared to other suspects. d. All of the above. Legal Issues c. Overall, the number of cannabis offense 1. In Oakland a patient can possess how 14. Fourth Amendment Protections still cases has dropped. 13. the federal government classifies can- many plants at one time? apply even if you’re a minor: d. None of the above. nabis as a Schedule I drug and considers it a. 72 b. 25 c. 79 d. 99 a. True b. False a narcotic. Cannabis advocates believe it 5. What were two should be rescheduled, because it is medici- 2. A juror cannot be punished for their 15. In regards to drug-sniffing dogs and main problems with nal and not a narcotic: verdict: a. False b. True traffic stops, the U.S. Supreme Court has the monkey studies a. True b. False expanded police search powers and left un- conducted by the 3. The problem with the thermal imager, settled the limits to drug dog searches. government in the 14. What are the benefits of the way in according to the U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1970’s? which Prop 215 was written: John Paul Stevens, is that: a. True b. False a. The monkey was suffocated with smoke a. It limits which conditions can be helped a. It is less accurate than the drug-sniffing 16. The DEA has seized tax payments to and asphyxiation caused brain damage. with cannabis. dogs. the California State Board of Equalization. b. Puncture wounds from the scientific b. It does not limit which conditions can b. The police can use it to sense the heat According to California NORML, taxing probes were counted as part of the brain be helped with cannabis. coming off your grow room and use this as medical cannabis sales could generate around damage from the cannabis smoke. c. It does not limit the allowable amount legal evidence in a court of law. how much money every year? c. Monkeys like cannabis more than hu- of cannabis. c. The drug-sniffing dogs have reported mans. a. $100,000,000 d. Both b and c “false positives” of 30% and higher and the d. Both a and b. b. $10,000,000 thermal imager has not. c. $100,000 15. What statement best summarizes the 6. The 1999 report by the Institute of d. When directed at the outside of a home, d. $10,000 ruling produced in the Supreme Court case Medicine confirms: it might reveal intimate but legal activities The United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buy- a. Cannabis has some well-established inside. 17. Not consenting to a search gives police ers’ Cooperative: medical uses. a legal basis to detain you: b. It does not lead to hard drug use. a. The DEA cannot raid California medical a. True b. False c. Cannabis smoke is more harmful than cannabis dispensaries. b. Farmers in South Dakota can grow 18. You can be arrested for refusing to tobacco smoke. identify yourself to a police officer. d. Both a and b. industrial hemp. c. The doctrine of “medical necessity” does a. True b. False 7. The California NORML and MAPS not give cannabis providers a defense against 19. You can be arrested for refusing an study of vaporizers and water pipes found federal distribution charges. unconstitutional search. water pipes to be healthier than cannabis d. Prop 215 is unconstitutional. a. True b. False cigarettes: a. True b. False 16. The Raich decision ruled that the Fed- 20. Cops are allowed and trained to lie: eral Government may prosecute patients who a. True b. False 8. What conclusions did Dr. Tashkin’s grow for personal use: study in 2005 produce? a. True b. False a. Cannabis smoking causes lung cancer. Horticulture b. Cannabis smoking does not cause lung 17. Which activist argued that they had a cancer. right to sell cannabis at a dispensary after the 1. Booby-traps are okay as long as you can c. Cannabis smoking may provide protec- passage of Prop 215? prove it was for self-defense.