Oregon medical pot measure draws fire

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Oregon medical pot measure draws fire

Amount allowed would increase

By Linda Brad Cain
ASSOCIATED PRESS

October 31, 2004

SALEM, Ore. – A measure on Oregon's ballot Tuesday to expand the medical use of marijuana is drawing fire from state district attorneys and the White House drug czar, who says it would turn the state into a "safe haven for drug-trafficking."

Measure 33 would make it easier for ailing people to obtain marijuana and allow them to possess more of it – up to a pound at a time. It requires that indigent patients be given free marijuana.

Yet White House drug czar John Walters, echoing criticism by Oregon's district attorneys, calls Measure 33 a fraud on Oregon voters and a back-door attempt to legalize marijuana.


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Under Oregon law, qualified patients are allowed to grow and use small amounts of marijuana without fear of prosecution as long as a doctor says it might help their condition. The measure on Tuesday's ballot would create state-regulated dispensaries authorized to supply up to 6 pounds of marijuana per year to qualified patients, and the patients could possess 1 pound at any given time.

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[saigon68]

1. White House drug czar John Walters

Needs to find a "real" job-- rather than harassing some terminal Cancer patient's search for pain relief in their final living days on earth.

He is scum.

[Democat]

2. Oregon will become a haven for sick and dying people getting relief!

It's horrible, these cancer patients and other terminally ill people must be stopped!

Vote Bush, put cancer patients where they belong, in jail! :(

[bemildred]

3. Oh my God. They could experience euphoria before they die! nt

[Pastiche423]

5. This measure

is directed to people living in pain, most of which can not afford high prescription costs.

The czar should have to live w/the pain we do for a year before he he is allowed to open up his uneducated mouth.

STAY OUT OF OREGON!

I voted YES on Measure 33!

[Toots]

4. I heard in Alaska they have a measure on the ballot to legalize

Pot for all adults. Not just for medical use but totally legalize it for possession and for sales of it. Also something about the state being able to tax it. :shrug:

[bemildred]

6. That seems to be true.

Both opponents and supporters of Ballot Measure 2 — which would make it legal for those 21 and older to grow, use or distribute marijuana and allow the government to regulate sales — seized the murder case to bolster their arguments.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-marijuana30oct30,1,2310195.story

[question everything]

11. Why is there a blue +19 next to Nixon?

on the graph, that is

[comradebillyboy]

7. our suffering pleases god

[Pastiche423]

9. What god?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. Anyone notice the implied pun in the headline?

Some bored reporter having a bit of ironic fun? :evilgrin:

[Qutzupalotl]

13. Where there's smoke, there's fire

:smoke:

[Robbie67]

10. fucking nonsense

I hope President Kerry has the balls to end this fucked up War on (some) Drugs.

[bobaloo2]

14. Re: Kerry

He has publicly stated that he will get the feds out of the business of prosecuting state medical marijuana patients, so there is some hope for sanity.

As an Oregonian who is REALLY hoping this measure passes and the upcoming Supreme Court decision goes the right way, we could actually see a change in the climate.

The current Oregon law isn't bad, but a lot of people just aren't able to grow for themselves. A friend of mine just got his med card, he has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair, no way in heck he could tend plants, a dispensary system would make things much better.

[Ducks In A Row]

12. also voted yes

but I'm not sure it will past. but I think it will be close and I'm hoping it will tell the powers-that-be they need to do more to get this medicine to the people who need it