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Fleet of Oregon influencers say Yes on 91
Measure 91 has unprecedented support for a marijuana measure. With more endorsements than any past marijuana measure in Oregon along with endorsements from national news, it’s clear that this is the better approach for Oregon.The Oregonian, Register-Guard, Medford Mail Tribune and The East Oregonian, are, for the first time in history, telling voters to fill in the YES circle for a measure that will regulate, legalize and tax marijuana by endorsing Measure 91. Newspapers reviewed the details of the measure and determined that it is a thorough and careful proposal.
They are joined by the Willamette Week, Portland Mercury, The Source Weekly (Bend), The Skanner, HIPFiSH Monthly, The Advocate, Street Roots and Cascade Business News.
Newspapers aren’t the only ones endorsers, the Democratic Party of Oregon, City Club of Portland, the Oregon State Council for Retired Citizens, and Oregon Alliance for Retired Americans, and the National Association of Social Workers – Oregon Chapter are all supporting a legalization measure for the first time.
We’re also proud of the support from major labor organization in Oregon: United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), AFSCME Local 328, AFSCME Local 88.
Measure 91 has strong support from local public safety and justice groups. ACLU Oregon, the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Partnership for Safety and Justice, Opal Environmental Justice Oregon and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
Prohibition of marijuana disproportionately affects people of color, with black people 100% more likely to be arrested or cited in Oregon for marijuana possession as whites, despite no difference in marijuana use between the races. Groups working for racial justice are backing Measure 91. The Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO), The Rural Organizing Project, and the Western States Center.
The current approach to marijuana is wreaking havoc on our environment,as illegal marijuana grows destroy our public lands and poison our streams and rivers, which is why the Oregon League of Conservation Voters are behind Measure 91.
Vote Yes on Measure 91.
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Hemp: An Opportunity for Oregon Farmers
“Oregonians shouldn’t be forced to buy hemp from Canada or China when Oregon farmers could be growing that sustainable, environmentally-friendly cash crop right here.”
Ryan Basile, Farmer
Silverton, Oregon
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Highlighting Yes on 91 Volunteers
Volunteers are the life of our campaign. They are the public faces for Measure 91 and work hard to help make a win possible in November. Please meet some of the wonderful people giving their time to the campaign!
Kaaren Graham
Lake Oswego, OregonKaaren has lived in Oregon for over 30 years, and she loves her state. She spends some of her free time collecting art and other handmade goods, and is an avid button collector. She has been working to help end social injustices since she was a student at Wilkes University.
Kaaren has always thought marijuana should be legal, and she wants to see it taxed, because it will go to good causes, like schools, police, and drug education programs. Medical Marijuana helped her survive a rare cancer, and she hopes to see better access to marijuana for medicinal users and oversight by the state of dispensaries. She volunteers twice a week making phone calls and doing research for the campaign.
Sam Krause is one of our amazing volunteers at the Yes on 91 campaign. Sam is at our campaign office in Portland three times a week or more. He is one of the people that we have been able to count on from day one. He’s from Canby, Oregon. He first learned about marijuana for medical purposes from a patient who survived pulmonary cancer because she was able to relieve pain by using marijuana. Measure 91 hits home for him because his sister has epilepsy and has been able to control her seizures with marijuana.
Sam took an indirect path, but eventually ended up at Portland Community College. He enjoys working on campaigns, fundraising and doing door to door outreach. He cares about making an impact and has been working on other campaigns as well.
He has always thought marijuana should be legal, and he thinks this is the right measure. He’s glad Oregonians have paid attention and been picky because we’ll end up with a great measure and 91 is it.
Pat Hughes is originally from southeastern Idaho, but made her way to Portland, which is where she feel she really belongs. Pat grew up very conservative and still thinks of herself as a simple country lady.
She has three children and has always thought of herself as a motherly figure. She is also a registered nurse and worked in neonatal intensive care and delivery for over 30 years. She is voting yes on Measure 91 because of how this will positively impact our community and make it better for children.
She volunteers for Vote Yes on 91 because she thinks this is the right step to take for marijuana. She believes it is the sensible approach and dedicates her free time to helping get the word out about Measure 91.
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I voted YES
Ballots have been mailed to all Oregonians!
If you don’t receive your ballot by Monday, October 20, you should check your voter registration or contact the Secretary of State’s Office.
Once you get your ballot VOTE YES on 91!
Then add a stamp and mail it in OR take it to a drop box.
Voting Yes is only the first step. We can’t pass better marijuana policy without your help!
1. Write or call all your friends telling them why you support Measure 91 and remind them to turn in their ballots.
2. Come to Yes on 91 headquarters and join us in calling voters across the state to remind them to vote. We’ll have snacks, fun people and democracy!
3. Donate to the Yes on 91 campaign. We need to spread our message right until election day on television, radio and all the places people find their news. We can’t do it without your support.
4. Share your “I VOTED” sticker on Facebook and encourage all your friends to do it too!
5. Change your picture on Facebook or Twitter to the Yes on 91 logo:
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We are a coalition of Oregonians who believe it is time for a new, responsible approach on marijuana – and that Oregon voters deserve the chance to decide in 2014. Join us!
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Letter: Time to put the adults in charge of marijuana
By Inge Fryklund
Published Sep 14, 2014 at 12:08AM
Today in Oregon, kids are buying readily available marijuana from unknown, unregulated sources. The supply chain may go all the way back to some Mexican cartel, and it’s guaranteed that all the profits will go to criminals. No one knows the potency or purity of the substance being sold, or how much pesticide contamination there might be. People undoubtedly are driving while high — as they do with alcohol — but unlike with labeled beer or wine, consumers have no way of knowing what potency they have ingested before getting behind the wheel.
Clearly, marijuana is a problematic substance — like alcohol, cigarettes and prescription drugs — with positives and negatives. Prohibition has not addressed these negatives, let alone solved them. As Albert Einstein said, insanity “is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
With our current enforcement-based system, the responsible adults in the community have abdicated their responsibility to control marijuana, a substance that is both widely available and in demand. We have left all decisions about source, distribution, sale, potency and purity up to criminals. Instead of proactively working to prevent or reduce problems with the distribution and sale of marijuana, we have been reactive, getting involved only after the sales to kids have already occurred when police make arrests for drug offenses. We spend our tax dollars on police, prosecution and prisons. Convictions in turn lead to broken families and reduced employability, cycling defendants back into the drug economy. We all bear the resulting social costs.
How to change the equation so that responsible adults and elected representatives can regulate and control marijuana?
Something that is illegal cannot be managed. Has any public official ever said, “We need to do a better job of managing armed robbery?” It sounds silly. Only if something is legal is it possible for the community to manage and control it.
During the prohibition of alcohol (1920-1933), drinking didn’t stop and there were tremendous downsides to relying on the criminal justice system to control alcohol. Supply was in the hands of criminals, and any dealer prosecuted was simply replaced by another. Remember Al Capone? And gangs fighting over turf? There was no quality control, and hundreds of people died of drinking adulterated alcohol.
The day Prohibition was repealed, state alcohol control commissions could regulate purity, require labeling, license distributors and sellers, and enact and enforce penalties for selling to minors. Beer distributors with contract disputes filed cases in court instead of shooting each other. When was the last time Bud Light and Coors Light engaged in a shootout over store shelf space?
We see the role of alcohol regulation at every one of Oregon’s liquor stores, wineries and microbreweries. Every beer is labeled in terms of alcohol by volume (ABV).
Consumers know exactly what they are getting. No seller wants to risk losing his license by selling to minors.
It is time to take on board the lessons of the prohibition of alcohol. Take decisions about potency, purity, distribution and sale out of the hands of criminals and put these decisions in the hands of responsible adults. Let’s use Oregon’s regulatory powers to manage marijuana proactively.
Measure 91 establishes that regulatory framework. Vote Yes on 91.
— Inge Fryklund is a speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). She lives in Bend.
See this Letter to the Editor in the Bend Bulletin.