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Marijuana: Oregonian Pointedly Promotes Pot - What a Reversal After All These Years

What about the medical side of medical marijuana?

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Oregonian, previously to its several current positive articles, has been egregiously against any aspect of medical marijuana from the start in 1999 using the words “pothead”, “pot doctors”, “illegal drugs” and any pejorative word in their “pot lexicon”.

The current barrage of positive articles, especially those by Noelle Crombie, are a refreshing change but she hasn’t yet written about the medical side...

Calling All Washington State Cannabis & Medical Cannabis Community Activists

Be the strength for the medicinal aspects, individuals and their supporters in taking the stand that we will NOT be pushed around, bullied nor Intimidated ANYMORE.

(SEATTLE, WA) - Attention Washington State Cannabis & Medical Cannabis Community Activists, and All those in the area!!!

Thursday is the day we take our stand against the Federal Government and the DEA in regards to the letters of THREAT that they have been sending medical cannabis Dispensaries in Washington

Seattle`s First High Times Medical Cannabis Cup A Smokin` Success!

This cannabis-related event will stand out as one of the best of 2012.

(SEATTLE) - Trans High Corp, aka High Times, hosted their "First Annual" Medical Cannabis Cup Awards in Seattle, Washington on the 14th, 15th & 16th of September, which was a delightful event indeed and one I was happy to have been invited to, and able to attend on a personal level.

Former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury Endorses Measure 80

Regulating marijuana for adults would also remove baseless argument for hemp ban

(SALEM) - Former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury has officially endorsed Measure 80.

Measure 80 would replace Oregon’s failed system of marijuana prohibition with an effective taxation-and-regulation model that would allow adults 21 and older to purchase cannabis at state-licensed stores only.

Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Endorses Measure 80

Oregon has in years past spent more than $60 million annually on marijuana-related offenses... - Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (OCDLA) has officially endorsed Measure 80.

“Oregon is now engaged in a great debate across the public safety spectrum to seek and adopt rational evidence-based policies that will make our state and people safer,” said Lane Borg, OCDLA president.

New Hampshire Jury Acquits Pot-Growing Rastafarian

Doug Darrell's first trial ended in a mistrial last November due to prosecutorial error. His second trial ended in yesterday's acquittal.

(BARNSTEAD, NH) - New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch signed a bill declaring that "in all criminal proceedings the court shall permit the defense to inform the jury of its right to judge the facts and the application of the law in relation to the facts in controversy."

Although the new law does not take effect until next January, a case decided yesterday in Belknap County illustrates the importance of the nullification power it recognizes.

Medical Marijuana Seminars: Dr. Leveque Volunteers

THE SILVER TOUR of TEMPLES AND SYNAGOGUES

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - FOR CANNABIS FOR GRANDMA
(Kaneh Bosum in Hebrew)
DEA Judge Francis Young says: “Cannabis is one of the safest drugs known to man.”

GOOD FOR ARTHRITIS

GOOD FOR ALL SPASMS

GOOD FOR MIGRAINES...

Just What the Hell is Under the Influence Anyway?

Right up front, I'm going to say not everyone is a good fit for marijuana. Some get nervous, paranoid or uncomfortable. If it bothers you do NOT use it. That's my disclaimer.

(PORTLAND, OR) - With more and more folks using marijuana as medicine, nearly 60,000 in Oregon alone and now literally hundreds of thousands in California, the establishment employers are worrying about employees being high on the job.

“Can't have these people using equipment and machinery” I can hear them saying. “We could be in danger from them.” So just what is under the influence anyway”.

Medical Marijuana: Good for Asthma

Philip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Marijuana physician and Toxicologist (Reprised from August 30th, 2007)

(PORTLAND, OR) - I was totally befuddled to read in the Oregonian newspaper August 1st, 2007, of a research study stating that smoking one marijuana joint is as bad for the lungs as five tobacco cigarettes.

They further report that long-time pot smokers can develop symptoms of asthma, bronchitis, obstruction of large airways and excessive lung inflation.

Controlling Opium

When Reason and Rationality Are Trampled By Politics and Emotion

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - “He sat in the courtyard watching his children spinning and spinning, their arms flailing as they cut through the air with each turn. Such giddiness and uproarious laughter had never before been witnessed, by him, in his children.

Even when they fell to the earth bumping their knees and elbows, the looks of pure joy coupled with moans and laughter puzzled him.