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The Oregonian: Medical Marijuana is Big Business
Yet whether you grow two plants hydroponically under a single 600W lamp in Portland, or you grow 24 plants under massive indoor soil grows with thousands of watts of lights in Eugene, or you grow 96 plants outdoors in the ideal weather of Medford, somehow everybody’s expense reimbursements with no labor costs always tally up to $10 / gram and $200 / ounce. And nobody bothers to check any grower’s power or water bills or garden supply receipts. Weird, huh?
The Top Ten “Reefer Madness” Stories of 2011
Today we bring you the Top Ten “Reefer Madness” Stories of 2011. “Reefer Madness”, of course, is the 1936 anti-pot propaganda film showing young people becoming crazed and violent on the effects of “reefer”. Today, we use “Reefer Madness” as shorthand to describe the hysterical warnings by the anti-drug zealots as reported unchallenged by a complacent media.
Oregonian editorial board hypes fears of medical marijuana and teen pot smoking
Shame on the Oregonian for parroting the baseless “What About the Children?!?” scare tactic of US Attorney Holton and the majority of Oregon law enforcement. “35 percent of students at Wilson High School and 46 percent at Marshall High School knew someone with a card.” Knew a fellow student or knew someone with an OMMP card? A friend’s parent? A local store clerk? Their own parent? Their parent’s friends? The Oregonian cleverly places the stat in the context of implying high schools are overrun with cardholding minor students.
US Attorney for Oregon attempts to squelch First Amendment
Dwight Holton, the US Attorney for Oregon, tried to silence a lawful protest by marijuana legalization activists on City Hall steps in Portland this morning, according to attorney Paul Loney.
Oregon US Attorney and 33 of 34 District Attorneys vow crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries
Oregon and America will simply have to come to the realization that cannabis is a popular consumer good and it will be bought and sold. We can allow it to continue as is, with patients struggling to get it and spending too much when they do, with police resources spent in futile attempts to stop healthy people from getting it, with state and local governments exercising no control over it an receiving no tax revenue from it, and with artificially high profits and lack of civil recourse leading to crime and violence. Or we can try something new (dare I say trail blazing?), and create reasonably regulated systems of production, distribution, and use that serve patients and recreational users while creating jobs, tax revenue, and improving public safety.
Stash for Wed, Oct 13, 2010
Dr. Mitch Earleywine on cannabis substituting for other precriptions; Oregon Measure 74; music by Mama Marjas.
Southern Oregon Mail-Tribune thinks medical marijuana patients in pain are faking it
There is evidence that some severe and debilitating conditions respond well to marijuana, including the nausea that accompanies chemotherapy for cancer, or the loss of appetite and inability to keep food down that plagues HIV sufferers. Thats why Oregon voters — correctly, in our view — agreed to allow limited medical use of marijuana. There [...]
Oregonian Editorial Board denigrates “medical marijuana” “patients”
I-28 is asking Oregonians whether or not people who are already allowed to use, possess, transport, and cultivate cannabis for medical purposes should be provided a system of buying and selling cannabis. “Legalization” would ask whether all Oregonians 21 and older should be allowed to use, possess, transport, and possibly cultivate cannabis.
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