NEW LAW COULD MEAN HEADACHES FOR CLUBOWNERS

Legislation to crack down on club drug use is wrapped in a popular child
safety package, but critics worry that businesses whose customers use drugs
without the proprietors' knowledge could face prosecution under the measures
being signed into law Wednesday.

''You could have hotels prosecuted, you could have sporting events
prosecuted, basically anything or anywhere you could expect someone to try
and use drugs,'' said Marvin Johnson, an American Civil Liberties Union
lawyer.

Al Fleming, who recently sold Al Who's Place in Columbus, said the law
shouldn't affect law-abiding proprietors. Fleming supports any legislation
aimed at keeping drugs out of clubs and away form young people.

"I'm all for it. I've been in that business over there for 25, almost 30,
years, and one of our greatest efforts has been to keep drugs out of there,"
he said. "I feel that anybody who has drugs in their place is just looking
for trouble and won't last very long anyway."