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<text id=90TT1220>
<title>
May 14, 1990: American Notes:North Carolina
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 35
American Notes
NORTH CAROLINA
Pot Watch in Tobaccoland
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<body>
<p> With an estimated value of $1.5 billion annually, marijuana
has surpassed tobacco as North Carolina's top cash crop. In an
attempt to slow down the harvest, some landowners in the Tar
Heel State last week began posting signs with the slogan
MARIJUANA WATCH near the remote fields where pot is grown. The
idea is to show that the owners are cooperating with lawmen,
thereby avoiding possible seizure of their property if
marijuana is found on it.
</p>
<p> Though many landowners are enthusiastic about the scheme,
the American Civil Liberties Union is concerned that it could
undermine the Bill of Rights. A.C.L.U. lawyer William Simpson
is worried about citizens' abandoning their constitutional
protections in their haste to join the war on drugs. Says
Simpson: "What are politicians going to tell people when the
Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?"
</p>
</body>
</article>
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