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Marijuana Users: The Great Unwashed Bottom Dwellers!
- So Says the Oregonian.

"Drug warriors" should get their facts straight!

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The Oregonian newspaper is back at its obnoxious vilification of medical marijuana users with a title of an op-ed article “America Can’t Afford to Legalize Marijuana”.

The writer's brain must be venom because it acts like poison with no positive attributes.

Marijuana Therapy: The Oregonian April 22 Blesses with Full-Page Ad

Is marijuana vilification finally over?

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Oregon's premiere newspaper, The Oregonian, up till this Sunday edition, has been vilifying marijuana and all of its aspects for about twelve years. This, in spite of the fact that it has been known as a highly safe, highly effective medicine for about four thousand years- and there are currently some 55,000 medical patients in Oregon.

For years, all of us advocates have been asking whoever we could ask for some sort of legislation which would take marijuana out of the grasp of the Mexican marijuana cartels.

Portland`s World Famous Cannabis Cafe` Celebrates the 420 High Holiday

A special holiday for a community at large.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Everybody's heard of it, but have they actually been there? If you are an Oregon medical marijuana patient, this Friday is the perfect opportunity for you to see the inside of what has become a rather mythical place.

Portland's World Famous Cannabis Cafe' will be celebrating the 420 High Holiday in high fashion with festivities beginning at 4:20 p.m.

Springfield Man Arrested For Causing Injury Motorcycle Crash on Hwy 126W

A ill-mannered driver nearly costs a biker his life.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Today, Oregon State Police arrested the driver of a vehicle that caused a motorcyclist to lose control and crash along Highway 126W west of Veneta early Sunday evening.

66-year old Valentin Camarillo, from Roseburg, was riding his 1997 Harley Davidson motorcycle eastbound in a group of four motorcycles when a vehicle came up from behind them.

Anti-Prohibition Activists Join Together! May 5 is the Thirteenth Annual Global Cannabis March

Over three hundred cities world wide join together in the Global Cannabis March

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Global Marijuana March is an annual rally held at different locations around the planet. 734 different cities have signed up from 64 different nations since 1999.

Participants around the Portland area will gather in Pioneer Courthouse Square to march at high noon through downtown Portland, accompanied by a police escort.

Study Shows Marijuana Users Are Safer Drivers Than Non-Marijuana Users

The new study was released by a leading US auto insurance quote provider.

(New York (PRWEB)) - In a recent study, a national quote provider for online car insurance quotes cites a strong correlation between traffic-related accidents and marijuana use.

The study, which looks at statistics regarding accidents, traffic violations, and insurance prices, seeks to dispel the thought that “driving while stoned” is dangerous.

Help Gazan Youth Through Breakdance Rebuild Dance Center

Gaza's only breakdancing crew are rebuilding their headquarters destroyed in Israeli attack

(GAZA CITY / SALEM) - During the Israeli attack of 2009, the recreation center used by the CampsBreakerz breakdancing group in the Gaza Strip was destroyed.

That didn't stop them, however; they have been practicing ever since in a cramped extra room owned by a relative in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp. But now, they want to expand. The CampsBreakerz reputation has grown in the past three years, and more youth than ever before want to learn the art of breakdancing and be part of a team.

Not Just Fish Bait and Cockatoo Nibbles Anymore. Mikey Likes It!

Remember, there's no weed in these hemp seeds!

(VICTORIA, B.C.) - “Tastes like sunflower, looks like sesame”, a clever little catch-phrase I picked up along the way which coins hempseed-as-a-food to a tee.

Be it hemp morning shakes, peanut chocolate energy balls made of hemp, almond goji powerballs, apple-power porridge (available right here in Victoria BC), finger licking brownies, hemp “cornchips”, veggie burgers or seeds in a salad dressing, there›s no doubt hemp is super-food. Not just hype; it is actually good for you. Hemp has been called the new soy and it’s ever more popular.

Willie Nelson Officially Endorses Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012

Country music legend has long been a supporter of ending cannabis prohibition.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act (OCTA 2012) has been gaining momentum as the time grows closer to the deadline for signatures to be submitted to the State, but nothing compares to the recent endorsement by the legendary country music star Willie Nelson.

That’s just the thing to add fuel to their signature-gathering fire.

ODOT Issues Notice of Default to Design Builder on US 20

The Pioneer Mountain to Eddyville Project has been stalled since 2010

(CORVALLIS, OR.) - The Pioneer Mountain/Eddyville Project is creating a straighter 5.5 mile segment of U.S. 20 between Corvallis and Newport to replace the narrow, twisting 10 mile segment.

The Oregon Department of Transportation is issuing Notice of Default to Yaquina River Constructors (Granite Construction Company). They have 10 days to correct the default to ODOT’s satisfaction.