Joining forces with failed gubernatorial candidate Kevin Mannix, the Oregonian newspaper has joined the list of agencies out to get OMMP.
(SALEM, Ore.) - It's a propaganda job.
Police say it's "out of control" but the truth is, the most successful medical marijuana program is falling victim to the spin doctors. Now they have Oregon's biggest newspaper following suit in the unwarranted hatchet job they are doing over an herb that helps sick people.
Anti-pot advocates just love it when a couple of people screw up too, then they can portray the whole medical marijuana program as being something bad or deceptive, which it is not.
The basis for one of the biggest social and societal problems this nation has, are the thousands of harmless marijuana smokers who are taking up jail space while violent criminals threaten our safety on the streets. The "crime" is only seen that way in an archaic type of thinking, by people who are only concerned with keeping marijuana outlawed, even though it has been proven a thousand times over that the substance has never killed a single person in history and helps people every day.
This notion of medical marijuana being illegal and harmful as portrayed in today's Oregonian, stems from the half-witted ideas of the state's biggest political geek: Republican attorney Kevin Mannix, the author of Oregon's hotly disputed Measure-11 which takes power away from elected judges and hands it over to prosecutors who are driven to achieve only one goal, and that is conviction. He wants his pharmaceutical "friends" who manufacture Marinol, a "synthetic" drug created in a laboratory at a time when little was actually known about Cannabis, to exclusively sell their pharmacy product instead of the real thing.
Surely Mannix had the crap kicked out of him in school by a pot smoker, what else could cause his foolish behavior? By the way Kevin, has anyone in the public realm ever seen the footage of the Western Oregon professors tearing you up over Measure-11's failed design? You look like you're about to cry, I think we might air that soon and offer some real perspective on Kevin Mannix.
Salem-News.com's Dr. Phil Leveque, the state's leading expert on medical marijuana, will have more on our response to this outrageous report in the Sunday newspaper later today or Monday. Oregon has more than 14,000 legal medical marijuana patients, over 2,500 doctors signing prescriptions, and the Oregonian is issuing a completely one-sided article on the subject based on false innuendos issued by local police and prosecutors.
It is sad because they probably have no idea how much credibility they lose with the common citizen when they light their torches and attack medical marijuana like a bunch of Storm Troopers descending on a Polish village.
Medical marijuana is a twice voter passed piece of legislation that Oregon citizens want. The Oregonian and the Marion County Prosecutor's Office are taking isolated incidents and portraying them falsely.
Did they just get here? There are and there have been millions of daily smokers for generations in this country. This battle has only been raging since Dupont teamed with the Hearst Newspaper chain in the 30's and targeted marijuana or hemp more specifically, because they wanted to manufacture "synthetic" rope and hemp is the strongest natural fiber known to man, so they had to demonize it, and they created the movie "Reefer Madness."
Today the Oregonian, Mannix and even the court officers are playing into a hand created by "corporate America" in the 1930's, and it is the same dishonest side of American business that has nearly driven this nation to the brink under Bush's Presidency. It is a joke, don't believe the propaganda that is an affront to end the wishes of Oregon voters.
It is obvious to anyone paying attention that police throughout Oregon have been on the rampage with busting people for pot and making sure the news covers it. We run all of their "marijuana grow raid" stories and we view them as daily news, but the numbers are way up and it is fair for us to be suspicious about it, as the trend has greatly developed since the announcement that Mannix was developing legislation to overturn the wishes of Oregon voters. His tool chest is full of falsely concocted information. Police are working behind closed doors on this and federal DEA agents are in our local police departments selling this information with videos and power point presentations. Most police aren't really driven to bust people over pot, they know it is insignificant most of the time, but the DEA is poisoning their minds with false information, playing a dangerous game with Oregon's future.
Medical Marijuana is on the Oregonian Hit ListSalem-News.com