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Marijuana Users: The Great Unwashed Bottom Dwellers!
- So Says the Oregonian.

"Drug warriors" should get their facts straight!

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The Oregonian newspaper is back at its obnoxious vilification of medical marijuana users with a title of an op-ed article “America Can’t Afford to Legalize Marijuana”.

Pot Foe Dwight Leans Right but he`s Not Right

Our medical expert, Dr. Phil Leveque, says Dwight Holton's position on marijuana is a disservice to PTSD Veterans.

(SALEM) - A new article in US News & World Report explores the Oregon Gubernatorial race and Dwight Holton's hardline position over medical marijuana.

Mr. Holton has stated that he supports the state's voter-endorsed program, but I think that might be a wee stretch of the truth from Dwight.

Oregon: Global Cannabis March Unites Three Legalization Initiatives

By Michael Bachara, OCTA 2012, Sensible Oregon and OMPI Supporter

(PORTLAND, OR) - This weekend, Portland experienced solidarity from multiple cannabis legalization groups as hundreds assembled from across the region to have their voices heard in the 13th Annual Global Cannabis March through the streets of downtown.

Complete with a police escort, marchers began and ended in Portland's living room, Pioneer Courthouse Square.

Cardiac Arrhythmias and Marijuana: Reprise
Cannabis Inhibits Arrhythmias Who is this Dr. Pot?

This is for the Perspicacious Stephen A!

(PORTLAND, OR) - Every once in a while, I get a very perspicacious email response to one of my articles. This one I had to respond to.

Pelosi Steps in the Ring for Medical Marijuana Users

As an Oregon AG candidate declares he will enforce federal law in the state of Oregon, top federal lawmaker calls for an end to medical persecution.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement Wednesday in response to recent federal government actions threatening safe access to medicinal marijuana.

She voices strong concerns about the recent actions by the federal government that threaten the safe access of medicinal marijuana to alleviate the suffering of patients in California.

Infant Opiate Addiction: Preventable with Cannabis

Queen Victoria of England Says So!

(MOLALLA, OR) - The Oregonian May 1 2012 featured an article Addicted Babies Rise threefold in a Decade, with the emphasis on opiate painkillers for pregnant mothers and the extremely serious withdrawal effects on the newborn infants.

Attorney General Holder Admits Obama Misled On Medical Marijuana

The Huffington Post reported a comment by Attorney General Holder that everyone who supports medical marijuana needs to hear...

(WASHINGTON DC WeedBlog) - As many of you have heard by now, Jimmy Kimmel called Obama out on marijuana at the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night.

Kimmel asked, “What is with the marijuana crackdown? Seriously, what is the concern?

Anti-Marijuana Attorney General Dwight Holton:
More Dangerous than Any Disease

Will he jail 55,000 patients, or just high schoolers?

(MOLALLA, OR) - I became suspicious of this man when I saw that he was endorsed by 48 Oregon sheriff's and district attorney's.

It is well-known that the latter group are rabidly against marijuana in any form, legal or not.

Marijuana Therapy: The Oregonian April 22 Blesses with Full-Page Ad

Is marijuana vilification finally over?

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Oregon's premiere newspaper, The Oregonian, up till this Sunday edition, has been vilifying marijuana and all of its aspects for about twelve years. This, in spite of the fact that it has been known as a highly safe, highly effective medicine for about four thousand years- and there are currently some 55,000 medical patients in Oregon.

For years, all of us advocates have been asking whoever we could ask for some sort of legislation which would take marijuana out of the grasp of the Mexican marijuana cartels.

Lynching Charlie Lynch

Lynching Charlie Lynch finds many answers, and raises even more questions.

(BEVERLY HILLS, CA) - Directed by Rick Ray, Lynching Charlie Lynch is available On Demand and online today, April 20, 2012, from Brainstorm Media.

DVD copies of the film are now available for pre-order through Amazon.