January 23, 2012 I am State Representative Dennis Richardson and I need your help in resolving Oregon’s State Budget crisis. The graph below shows the drastic decline in income taxes and other revenues over the past three years. Just in the last six months of 2011, since the Legislature’s 2011 Session ended, the State . . . → Read More: Open Letter from Rep Richardson

Last Wednesday, the Governors of Washington and Rhode Island petitioned the federal government to reschedule marijuana. Subsequently, Vermont’s governor joined the petition.

This creates an opportunity for us to encourage Governor Kitzhaber to join in this effort. His contact information is online here:

http://governor.oregon.gov/Gov/contact.shtml

We’d like each of the Clubs to institute a Senior Outreach Program to let Senior citizens know about the OMMP and how it might help them. We might also want to reach out to care facilities who take care of Alzheimer’s patients as well.

Here’s a link to help yo9u find your legislator so you can call him up and tell him that you love Club Pit Bull and want clear rules for safe access that all players can follow. And if cuts to the budget need to be made, cut funding to the drug war first!

Losing Hearts and Minds in the Drug War by Norm Stamper

Lead Essay November 9th, 2011

In the forty years since Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs,” Americans’ perceptions of that war are finally beginning to shift. Receding support for Prohibition is happening in large part because of virally circulated news accounts and . . . → Read More: Losing Hearts and Minds in the Drug War

As Chairman of Way & Means, Peter Buckley is who we should be asking to defund marijuana eradication efforts and task forces in Oregon. I would like to ask all of our members to call him and do so this week. Here’s his contact info: Representative Peter Buckley Back to Top Party: D District: . . . → Read More: Defund the War on Marijuana in Oregon

Please let Reps Peter Buckley, Sal Esquivel and Dennis Richardson know how OMMP affects your life and how you would like to see the program changed to allow Safe Access. They are currently working on legislation for the upcoming Session and instead of the usual bad bill, we need to overwhelm them with positive . . . → Read More:

We need an integrated system where the private sector produces medical marijuana and dispenses it as well and the public sector regulates quality. We need clear guidelines that are easy to follow so that players know the rules. We need streamlined regulations that allow business to flourish and generate tax revenue.

I feel it is important to support the Congressmen who stepped up yesterday and asked the President to Reschedule mj at federal level and end the conflict for good. I wil be writing to my Senator and Rep as well as Reps. Buckley, Esquivel, Richardson and Sen Bates and asking them to bring . . . → Read More: Write Your Reps!

The Health Services Commission will meet on October 13, 2011 from 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM at the Wilsonville Training Center in Wilsonville, Oregon in Room 112. On the agenda is coverage of Synagis for RSV prevention, transgender hormone therapy, coverage of preventive services, and clinical preventive screening in minorities. The Commission will also . . . → Read More: Health Services Commission