'Your Voice, Your Vote': Cannabis Tax Act & Office of Equity

When the use of marijuana becomes semi legal we will become more aware of the problems with using marijuana.  More studies will be done and  more money will be available to help people who are addicted to marijuana.  

I hope this aspect in marijuana possession and usage will be studied in my country and implemented. Right now and i am so grateful to order freely from http://maryjanesgarden.com/, they are secure and delivers efficiently, but i guess much best if its really legal in my place. as legal as planned in the US.

Never "Owned" a gun? I take exception to that statement. Why is this person inferring ownership of a firearm to criminality? 

i just have to say,  the man that went to the bar and was drinking and playing with his buddies that willingly let one of his buddies pour rum on his head and light him on fire and got badly burnt, he did it because while he was drunk he had no since about himself.   well if that was a pot bar that wouldnt have happened.  i dont care what anyone says about pot it does not cause people to act irrasionally or creat thoughts of stupidity that would cause harm to themselves or others.  i have smoked for many years, 40 yrs.  and i have held a great paying job,  i have raised non drug addicted kids.  my four kids are very well placed in sociaty with jobs and familys of there own,  i dont have any criminal record.  i have never been to jail or arrested for anything. 

 if you were to take two people and got one stoned and the other drunk and set the place on fire the stoner would have to rescue the drunk. because when you drink you dont have control,  when you smoke you do have control. you can still function on pot,  you dont nessasarly want to function but in an emergency you can.  while your drunk you cant function. you never hear of roudy people smoking pot. the police never have to break up a fight with people on pot.   

 i  have a medical card that i pay $400.00 a year to have,  i chose to get that so that i didnt no longer have to go to the most lowest life on earth,  drug dealers and get my little bag of weed.  why are we spending so much money on keeping me from having my cocktail after work.  i am not hurting anyone.  why not let me pay my taxes and let me do what i want.lets make some money oregon lets set a presedence for other states.  we will have so much money if we pass the legalize pot bill that we can now have our police foccuss on the shootings in our area.  it is 2012 people it is time to stop the war on pot and put our effort and money on things that are harming others.   like gang shootings.  here is a thought, if we do not have to locate a drug dealer to buy a bag of weed,  we are preventing them from doing other crimes.   they will eventually move out of oregon to a state that is steal got a war on pot.  the dealers wont have the income they have now.  really people nobody is gonna harm anyone if they are stoned. and at home on there day off from there jobs.  one more thing,  people will finally be able to work at better paying jobs if they qualify for the position,  not because they dont smoke pot.  pot stays in your blood stream for a month.  so say dave that might smoke at home on his day off two weeks ago can finally apply for a job that he is qualified for and not be affraid if he will pass a piss test for something he did two weeks ago.  yes to legalizing marijuanna   

Portland Office of Equity and Human Rights.....what a waste of money.

The question about setting aside funds for drug abuse treatment is a good idea.  It is no different than the lottery setting aside funds for gambling addiction.

Just glad to see it will be on the ballot.  It is an issue that deserves a vote of the people.  

Timber will never be what it was and is on its way out............ what could we replace it with?

 “If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state orfederal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of theevidence presented. Save for a prosecution in which acts ofviolence or intended violence are alleged, we will — to borrowJustice Harry Blackmun's manifesto against the death penalty— no longer tinker with the machinery of the drug war. Nolonger can we collaborate with a government that usesnonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons with its poorest, mostdamaged and most desperate citizens. Yet this war grinds on,flooding our prisons, devouring resources, turning cityneighborhoods into free-fire zones. To what end? State andfederal prisons are packed with victims of the drug conflict. Anew report by the Pew Center shows that 1 of every 100 adultsin the U.S. — and 1 in 15 black men over 18 — is currentlyincarcerated. That's the world's highest rate ofimprisonment.” Time.com 12/21/08 ED BURNS, DENNIS LEHANE,GEORGE PELECANOS, RICHARD PRICE & DAVID SIMON

To all the conservatives:

 

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

 

Gen 1:29

I agree, doing your research will bring up some interesting and surprising points that I never learned through DARE. Actually, I created a video in support of legalizing cannabis if you're interested in viewing it: http://youtu.be/6io3Ajn_3Jc @youtube.com.

Let me know what you think.

I agree, people are just worked up over the issue of cannabis being, well, cannabis.If only people would take the time to do some research on Google, they would realize how silly cannabis prohibition is.This plant can save lives, build homes, put food on your table, clothes on your back and gas in your car...Yet people still believe its bad.  It really saddens me when I see comments like Amanda's on Facebook, it just shows how uneducated people are on cannabis and what it really can do. There are so many people on face book just like her too. We can try to educate all we can, but when people literally tell me " Doesn't matter what science says now, I learned in school it was bad, so its bad." I don't know what else to say, because it does not matter if I show them every study I have ever read on the idea, they simply do not read it and just say whatever I showed them is made up, even reputable sources like Harvard, I just cant believe it.Good luck on measure 80, lets end the silliness and start creating jobs.Larry Back 

Currently a large percentage of the tobacco tax goes to the health care fund. That is no different then cannabis tax dollars supporting treatment programs.