Medical Marijuana is on the Oregonian Hit List

Joining forces with failed gubernatorial candidate Kevin Mannix, the Oregonian newspaper has joined the list of agencies out to get OMMP.

Police say it's "out of control" but the truth is, the most successful medical marijuana program is falling victim to the spin doctors. Now they have Oregon's biggest newspaper following suit in the unwarranted hatchet job they are doing over an herb that helps sick people.

Anti-pot advocates just love it when a couple of people screw up too, then they can portray the whole medical marijuana program as being something bad or deceptive, which it is not.

The basis for one of the biggest social and societal problems this nation has, are the thousands of harmless marijuana smokers who are taking up jail space while violent criminals threaten our safety on the streets. The "crime" is only seen that way in an archaic type of thinking, by people who are only concerned with keeping marijuana outlawed, even though it has been proven a thousand times over that the substance has never killed a single person in history and helps people every day.

This notion of medical marijuana being illegal and harmful as portrayed in today's Oregonian, stems from the half-witted ideas of the state's biggest political geek: Republican attorney Kevin Mannix, the author of Oregon's hotly disputed Measure-11 which takes power away from elected judges and hands it over to prosecutors who are driven to achieve only one goal, and that is conviction. He wants his pharmaceutical "friends" who manufacture Marinol, a "synthetic" drug created in a laboratory at a time when little was actually known about Cannabis, to exclusively sell their pharmacy product instead of the real thing.

Surely Mannix had the crap kicked out of him in school by a pot smoker, what else could cause his foolish behavior? By the way Kevin, has anyone in the public realm ever seen the footage of the Western Oregon professors tearing you up over Measure-11's failed design? You look like you're about to cry, I think we might air that soon and offer some real perspective on Kevin Mannix.

Salem-News.com's Dr. Phil Leveque, the state's leading expert on medical marijuana, will have more on our response to this outrageous report in the Sunday newspaper later today or Monday. Oregon has more than 14,000 legal medical marijuana patients, over 2,500 doctors signing prescriptions, and the Oregonian is issuing a completely one-sided article on the subject based on false innuendos issued by local police and prosecutors.

It is sad because they probably have no idea how much credibility they lose with the common citizen when they light their torches and attack medical marijuana like a bunch of Storm Troopers descending on a Polish village.

Medical marijuana is a twice voter passed piece of legislation that Oregon citizens want. The Oregonian and the Marion County Prosecutor's Office are taking isolated incidents and portraying them falsely.

Did they just get here? There are and there have been millions of daily smokers for generations in this country. This battle has only been raging since Dupont teamed with the Hearst Newspaper chain in the 30's and targeted marijuana or hemp more specifically, because they wanted to manufacture "synthetic" rope and hemp is the strongest natural fiber known to man, so they had to demonize it, and they created the movie "Reefer Madness."

Today the Oregonian, Mannix and even the court officers are playing into a hand created by "corporate America" in the 1930's, and it is the same dishonest side of American business that has nearly driven this nation to the brink under Bush's Presidency. It is a joke, don't believe the propaganda that is an affront to end the wishes of Oregon voters.

It is obvious to anyone paying attention that police throughout Oregon have been on the rampage with busting people for pot and making sure the news covers it. We run all of their "marijuana grow raid" stories and we view them as daily news, but the numbers are way up and it is fair for us to be suspicious about it, as the trend has greatly developed since the announcement that Mannix was developing legislation to overturn the wishes of Oregon voters. His tool chest is full of falsely concocted information. Police are working behind closed doors on this and federal DEA agents are in our local police departments selling this information with videos and power point presentations. Most police aren't really driven to bust people over pot, they know it is insignificant most of the time, but the DEA is poisoning their minds with false information, playing a dangerous game with Oregon's future.

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your typical "pot-head" November 25, 2008 3:31 pm (Pacific time)

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. -Aristotle

your typical "pot-head" November 25, 2008 3:24 pm (Pacific time)

I am not from oregon i am from the south western state of New Mexico and yes I do enjoy smoking what all you anti-marijuanans call "pot" and the reason I enjoy smoking marijuana is for the simple fact that... "I like smoking marijuana!" its that simple so why dont you keep your government control out of my business and out of weed alright! i dont see what the problem is here. every single day we see in our local papers of people dying from driving drunk over dosing on drugs such as cocaine, meth, heroin, and the list goes on. but when was the last time you heard of some one who died cause they smoked too much marijuana? oh wait you havnt cause it doesnt happen. now i wish our government would have a little sense when it comes to the legalization of this so called "society killer" and just let the people choose if they want to smoke marijuana or not? sincerely your typical "pot-head"

GreenFloyd October 25, 2007 11:33 pm (Pacific time)

In a way the cops are right, drugs are out of control. And frankly I can't think of a better reason to reform our currently unenforceable and widely ignored drug laws. IMHO, reformers need to stop playing the victim and stick to the facts. We live in a drug infested society and even though it may at first seem counter-intuitive, the only way to effectively control drugs is to legalize them. I have no doubt society can withstand legalized drug use. However, I know society can not stand lawlessness without eventually crumbling into a heap of corruption and chaos.

Dr. Phil Leveque October 25, 2007 11:23 pm (Pacific time)

To Anne: Is it Mannix by chance? Almost every article written in the Oregonian and other newspapers has belittled and slandered patients who have discovered that marijuana gives better relief than any prescription they've been given. Calling these legal medical marijuana patients "potheads" and destroying their homes, plants and equipment and jailing them are Nazi tactics. The cops aren't nice or reasonable.

bamboozler October 21, 2007 7:30 pm (Pacific time)

Mr. Blissett, I only have a problem with you being a pot-head if you are out trying to get a petition signed and look like you live under the bridge or are in the medical program, abusing it and making it look bad!

Anonymous October 21, 2007 5:03 pm (Pacific time)

So much for the fight against meth huh? The cops and prosecutors could care less about what is hurting Salem; they want to bust medical pot patients and spend their energy over people they can bust easily and convict. The government is increasingly becoming our enemy. Thanks Tim for being the only voice in Oregon willing to take this on; it is commendable. Anne, silence never saved the day. This is clandestine federal intervention in a land where state's rights are a fantasy

Anne October 21, 2007 3:59 pm (Pacific time)

Did you actually read the Oregonian article? If so, you'd realize how ridiculous and paranoid your statements of "out to get OMMP" and that they've "joined forces" with Mannix are. They've referenced very real, very specific incidents of the OMMP being abused. Are you seriously going to argue that there isn't room for improvement in the system as it exists currently? As for Mannix, the article states "His initiative flies in the face of Oregon's decades-long tolerance of marijuana" and quotes someone calling it a non-threat and "loony". They also include a bit of info on the Voter Power, pro-patient, initiatives. I realize this subject gets you riled up, Tim. But come on now; you state that The Oregonian loses credibility for their article while you fill yours with nonsense about "crap" kicking, Nazi innuendos and hoping to make grown men cry. Grow up.

Luther Blissett October 21, 2007 3:18 pm (Pacific time)

Very well said, Tim! If only everyone would stop listening to the anti-pot B.S. this country might be a great place in which to live. It's time for the persecution to end! And yes, "bamboozler", I'm a pothead. You got a problem with that?

Anonymous October 21, 2007 3:13 pm (Pacific time)

Nobody should ever be threatened with arrest over marijuana, and that is the end of it. It is a damned flower, what is wrong with everyone? Anyone can find it, they can buy it, but if they become a medical marijuana patient in oregon you can't do anything but grow it? That takes months, it is not possible to operate legally, a half assed system at best/

Arthur Gleeson October 21, 2007 3:06 pm (Pacific time)

What should any of us find surprising about this? They have been planning this since medical marijuana was first approved by the people here. Mannix is a plague, police are becoming increasingly dishonest, and the prosecutors want lots of convictions so they can stuff the overcrowded Marion Jail with more and more people. Why doesn't Salem-News.com cover that next? It doesn't look like you're making friends with those people, tally ho!

bamboozler October 21, 2007 1:57 pm (Pacific time)

Well, at least it's Mannix and not a credible politician (is that the ultimate oxymoron?) going after it. True patients are good ambassadors, pot-heads are not. A piece of advice for all you invisible idiots out there: Out of sight, out of mind! I have no patience with patients who abuse this program! dp

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