From: Jim Rosenfield <[j n r] at [igc.apc.org]>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
Date: 28 Oct 93 20:52 PDT
Subject: Tactic to Expose Issue

PRO-POT GROUP OVERCOMES OBJECTIONS AND ADOPTS ROAD

    COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct 26 - Someone should remind the latest
member of Ohio's adopt-a-highway programme -- don't try smoking
the potholes.
     The National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
(NORML) has joined scores of Boy Scout troops, Elks Clubs, and
other community groups in the programme in which participants
clean up sections of Ohio state's highway system.
     The state's Department of Transportation denied NORML's
application twice previously, arguing it would be helping to
advertise a "controversial activist" group.
     The American Civil Liberties Union stepped in, and Ohio's
attorney general forced transportation officials to relent.
     In exchange for cleaning up litter from a two-mile (three
kms) stretch of route 235 near Yellow Springs, Ohio, four times a
year, the state will erect a sign with the group's name.