(Ed. note: This
Reuters story is a bit confusing. Last year the Oregon state legislature voted to
recriminalize possession of one ounce of marijuana, following a prohibitionist propaganda
campaign of exceptional dishonesty. The people got the necessary signatures on an
initiative to block the measure.) See
Review of All The
Proposed Oregon Marijuana Initiatives – Which Do Police Fear Most?
and
A Letter From
Oregon Shows What the Medical Marijuana Movement Is Really All About
and
The Oregon
Cannabis Tax Act Ends Drive Short By Just 3,169 Signatures; Upgraded Web Site Announced
and
Oregon Initiative A
Reaction To Draconian Laws -- Doctors Should Be Able To Prescribe Marijuana, Says the
Doctor
and
Elderly Oregon
Medical Marijuana User More Severely Punished Than Child Molester
From Reuters
July 13, 1998
FIVE MEASURES MAKE BALLOT
SALEM, OR—Oregon voters will decide two marijuana-related
ballot measures with very different approaches to use of the drug. One measure to allow
medical use of marijuana to ease nausea and increase patients’ appetites has
qualified with enough signatures to get onto the November ballot. At odds with it is a
measure referred by state lawmakers to make possessing small amounts of marijuana a crime
again. Others ballot measures would allow adults who were adopted to see their
birth certificates, prevent unions from spending money from payroll-deductions on
political activities, and allow vote by mail in all elections.
Officials are still counting signatures for a half-dozen other measures.
Supported