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Grassroots Activists Head to the Nation`s Capitol to End Cannabis Prohibition

Millions to gather "in hopes to cease lies and propaganda in the cannabis world"

(SALEM, Ore.) - Grassroots activists are calling on a million supporters, hemp farmers and protesters alike to join a protest march in Washington D.C. to demand an end to cannabis prohibition.

Overgrow The Government has taken a firm stand against lies and propaganda associated with cannabis prohibition.

Oregon Marijuana Activists Make OCTA 2012 Official

The 2012 Oregon Cannabis Tax Act would give new zest to the old mantra, "Keep Oregon Green!"

(SALEM, Ore.) - Paul Stanford, Executive Director of the Hemp and Cannabis Foundation walked 2200 signatures in to the Oregon Secretary of State’s office on January 4th, 2011, officially sponsoring OCTA 2012. It could be a historic turning point for a state well known for its grass roots movements.

If the measure is passed by voters, OCTA 2012 will legalize the sale, possession and personal private cultivation of marijuana in the state of Oregon.

Medical Marijuana Patients and Advocates Protest Tuesday in SLO

They are gathering to discuss aggressive police actions against Medical Marijuana delivery services.

(SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.) - Patients and medical marijuana advocates are planning a lively protest outside of the San Luis Obispo (SLO) County Courthouse Tuesday to draw attention to the aggressive raids and arrests that took place the week over the last week in December.

Oregon`s Medical Marijuana Doctor Reviews Up`s and Down`s of 2010

Americans are learning that cannabis poses no threat to their way of life, and in fact may enhance it, with their doctor's okay.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Dr. Phil Leveque and Bonnie King of Salem-News.com discuss the progress and development of medical marijuana.

Though it did not pass, California's Proposition 19 changed the way Americans, not just Californians, looked at the entire subject. Dr. Leveque comments that Proposition 19 and Oregon's Measure 74 brought the broader subject of medicinal use to a new group of people, and increased advocacy of the herb across the entire United States.

Another Vengeful Pot Bust of Medical Users in California

It's apt that the nickname of this community is 'SLO'- it underscores the mentality of law enforcement in this semi rural county.

(SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.) - San Luis Obispo, California Sheriff Pat Hedges is up to his old tricks; making a mockery of California's laws that protect sick people who use medical marijuana.

Medical Marijuana: Lying, Addicted Patients and Gullible, Duped Doctors

Marijuanaphobes and Miserable Diseases

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Marijuana therapeutics, the use of marijuana as medicine, is probably the most reviled medical substance ever found, which is ironic to the extreme. It is simultaneously the safest, most useful and most used medicine ever found.

The patients who use marijuana are reviled as pot heads which is about pejorative as possible.

Dr. Oz and Medical Marijuana: Continuation

Reality is a goal for doctors walking along the (golden) yellow brick road

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I recently posted an article “Medical Marijuana and Dr. Oz”, responding to his article “You Docs: Risks in Taking Medical marijuana”.

I took him to task because he was writing about the medical risks which are minimal and glossing over the great, therapeutic benefits which are many and in fact, drugs of choice for about 100 disparate medical problems.

Marijuana, the Religious Right, and Pat Robertson`s Sudden Bout of Extreme Sensibility

Who saw this coming?

(SALEM, Ore.) - Religious Right icon Rev. Pat Robertson shocked conservative viewers last week by stating that laws against marijuana are a bad idea and that prison sentences for pot smokers simply make young people into serious criminals.

This televangelist has a serious belief that America is on the wrong road when it comes to the criminal prosecution of people who use marijuana.

Alzheimer`s, Medical Marijuana and President Reagan

Yes, he did smoke it!

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The Oregonian just printed a story about Alzheimer's, the difficulty of diagnoses and the standard useless, rotten, misguided treatment. It seems that physicians are very reluctant to tell a patients or family caregivers, for this disease in effect rots the brain.

I have previously written about this: Alzheimer's: Promising New Therapy in Oregon, August 16 2010, and Alzheimer: Marijuana as Effective Medicine. Oct. 25, 2010, both on Salem-News.com.

Medical Marijuana and Dr. Oz: Shame for Misinformation Propaganda

Dr. Oz, you probably are a good surgeon but Marijuana therapeutics is obviously NOT your forte.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Dr. Oz, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read The Oregonian Dec. 15, 2010 with the headline for your article Medical Marijuana Is Not An All-Purpose Healer.

I have no idea who flummoxed you into writing this but as a physician from Turkey you should know better. Marijuana has been used as medicine in your country, Turkey, for at least 1000 years. Here for only 200.