Oregon to put "POT bill"on 2010 ballot-Initiative would allow pot sales at liquor stores

Hey, I'm from Alabama, and a contributing member of the brand new branch of NORML Alabama. (I'm also not the original poster)

I love Oregon. When I heard that it was the first state to allow a legal Cannibus Cafe in America...I got ready for a road trip.

Here's what one Oregonian says about the bill


Please vote no on Measure 28. The proponents of this initiative have a primary goal of keeping marijuana production and distributions under the control of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program, which has become an exclusive club that has little to do with medicine. In short, under the program people are growing and distributing marijuana with some legal cover. We're talking distribution at $1,500-3,000 per pound. Membership in the medical marijuana club run by OMMP is a ticket to easy money. THCF has registered over 100,000 patients at its clinics. It's a nonprofit, but we all know people can make money off a nonprofit. The prescribing doctors are paid over $1000 per day. Each "patient" pays $180.00 for a short visit with the doctor. The State of Oregon charges about $100 to register after the prescription is written.

Marijuana needs to be handled like liquor, not medicine. It does have medical benefits for a few people who will be able to get it much less expensively when it is legal and distributed through liquor stores. Industrial hemp is already legal in Oregon, and Marinol is produced by a pharmaceutical company. No real patients are going to suffer if we defeat Measure 28. Let's shoot it down and do it right!

Don't go to Portland....go to Eugene or south......

Sounds like it's time for me to move to Oregon.

Really?????

I wouldn't bet on it.

That's exactly what they said about medical marijuana clinics in Oregon, and now almost every town has got one...

First...you are wrong and know absolutely NOTHING about Oregon.

Second...since you jump to assumptions, I'm so very GLAD YOU WILL NOT MOVE HERE as we don't LIKE Your Kind.....

BOTH OF YOU POSTERS ARE FULL OF IT!

I KNOW Jeff and NEITHER of your statements are true.

I am currently living in Alabama (HELL, and I was born there) and I will be moving back to the Pacific Northwest where things make sense. I will be attending Law School in either Oregon or Washington (Both states are two of my favorites and I have been to most American states and several foreign countries.) My modivation to decide which place to go is based on where I can use and grow bud, which helps me with several medical physical problems, but I also enjoy that overall relaxation and enjoyment from this that cannot be found anywhere else. To all of the haters on this post, keep your comments to yourself and stop spreading pessimism about a group of people that are liberal progressive and intend no harm to people anywhere. Instead they offer the idea of a cleaner future that has healther, happier citizens. If you don't agree with their policies, then don't go there and stay where you are at and live with like minded people. That is my plan, to move to a state with like minded people. This is what makes the United States so strong is that we can have different points of view and yet still get along, as long as the federal government will allow it, and they should.

Dude. Come to Portland. THIS PLACE ROCKS. I KNOW I HAVE LIVED ALL OVER THE WORLD.

I love living on Hawthorne. It would be wonderful to go the liquor store and score some white. Widow.

VOTE¡!!!!!!

I moved to Oregon in 1976 because they were the first State to de-criminalize marijuna and the first State with a recycle bottle/can bill.
It is a great place to live,,
Portland is more like a big town instead of a large city.
they have the best mass transport system too.
I now live in Australia, I moved away in the Regan area, did not like the way the country was going.. The Bush 1 and Bush 2 years proved to me I was right

Ha ha! Oregon fucking rules! I'm totally voting for it. Why? cause out here we have balls to try new things. Realize that most Oregon natives are related to the brave and innovative people that moved here in covered wagons to make lives as modern thinkers with new and experimental ways of living. You boring ass easterners are related to scared little conservatives who love repeating the same mind numbing routines everyday. You rats can continue trying to get a bigger moldy piece of cheese to gnaw on while we experiment and create better ways of living,appreciating life and connecting with what is sacred about it. Seriously, most east coasters I know are fucking annoying and think everyone wants to hear them babble on and on about how great they are. You also think that being rude is a right when everyone else thinks your a dick with no common sense about when to shut the fuck up. Oh and (though this does not apply to everyone, I admit) your music scenes are watered down re-hashes of tired ass wankers from dead and gone eras. I win! TOODLES!!

If this is true. And the bill passes... I am SO moving home!

WEED KILLS..always