The editorial board of the Oregonian to call on the Oregon Legislature to put a reasonable marijuana legalization proposal on the table for the voters in 2014. The only question now is whether Washington DC-based Marijuana Policy Project will mess that up.
The editorial board of the Oregonian to call on the Oregon Legislature to put a reasonable marijuana legalization proposal on the table for the voters in 2014. The only question now is whether Washington DC-based Marijuana Policy Project will mess that up.
Continuing to fight a medical-only fight for marijuana is only going to produce more restrictive, less effective medical marijuana laws. At every successive state, there will be some group of patients who will be left behind to secure marijuana rights for a dwindling group of the most severely ill and disabled.
Patients that have cancer, glaucoma or HIV/AIDS in Oregon represent 6.7% of all patients or 4.6% of all conditions. But certainly, having those conditions could also result in some pain. So how many of these patients are qualifying only for pain, in absence of any other condition?
Bills to modify regulations for the Oregon medical marijuana program, add post-traumatic stress disorder to the qualifying conditions list, and legalize marijuana for recreational use have all been filed in the Oregon Legislature.
To open the New Year, I was presented with a bouquet of reefer madness so pungent it compelled me to write it up three days before the end of my vacation. Oregon State Senator Doug Whitsett wrote “Marijuana: more potent now and unquestionably addictive” in the Oregon Catalyst. I retort and debunk.
Charges have been dropped against the driver for vehicular manslaughter after he hits and kills a careless pedestrian who stepped into traffic in the middle of the road in Vancouver, Washington.
In Vancouver, Washington, last night a pedestrian crossing illegally in the dark was hit and killed. But to follow the coverage from Portland’s KGW, you’d believe the only reason the pedestrian is dead is because of marijuana being legalized in Washington State.
I’m very excited that this photo from the Associated Press is being seen far and wide, from the San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Mail (UK), The Vancouver Sun (Canada), WMAZ-TV in Macon, Georgia, Greenwich Time in Connecticut, and so many more!
MPP’s top ten lessons of Colorado legalization suggest Oregon should wait for 2016; Mainstream media notices kids and medical marijuana; HuffPo calls out Washington Stoners Against (This) Legalization; music by Hoodie Monks ft. Gomyo.
Oregon activists can’t wait four years and thousands of marijuana arrests later to legalize and there are now more deep pockets than just Peter Lewis who want in on the legal marijuana game.
Dr. Mitch answers questions that newly legal pot smokers may not know, are there drug interactions with pot, how do anti-psychotic drugs lead to later dementia; Cannabis breeder Subcool announces Friday benefit for autistic children in Seattle; Can Oregon activists ever legalize?; music by Rocker-T
So how does Washington legalization pass by a margin of 11%, Colorado legalization pass by a margin of 10%, and Oregon legalization lose by a margin of 7%?
It looks to me as if California is on the fast-track for marijuana legalization in 2014. But don’t discount Oregon. Our state’s largest newspaper is calling on our legislature to legalize and regulate marijuana.
Russ returns from Seattle with the results from Marijuana Election Night 2012
Here is a breakdown of the Marijuana Election Night Results for 2012, as we learned them East to West:
Here’s hoping that reason, sanity, and pragmatism prevails. Join us tonight from 4pm Pacific onward for our live coverage of Marijuana Election Night 2012 at radicalruss.com, on Twitter: @RadicalRuss #MJVote
Final look at the polls leading into marijuana legalization in WA, OR, CO and medical votes in MA, AR, MT; The 5 Reasons Stoners Vote Against Legalization; music by The Common Loon.
If you’re still on the fence, my cannabis consuming brothers and sisters, here are the top five reasons we’ve found from those pot smokers who’ll be voting with the Drug Czar, the prosecutors, the rehabs, the prison guards, and the cops who want to keep putting you in cages for smoking weed… and why they’re nonsense.
Legalization of marijuana in Washington, Oregon, or Colorado could cost Mexican drug trafficking cartels up to 30% of their profits and reduce American marijuana prices by half.
Roy Kaufmann from Oregon Measure 80 promotes tomorrow’s downtown Portland press conferences and addresses recent polling; Rant: Remember, every recalled drug is one the FDA said was safe; music by M.J.D.
