News Oregon's medical marijuana backers can light up (with joy) about a new national campaign while they're busy campaigning locally for an initiative this fall to create a system statewide of dispensaries. Bloggers and students are waging a national battle for marijuana legalization with a petition to President Obama asking the federal government to end its opposition to legalizing the drug. Jane ...   More

News Stormy Ray, one of the original petitioners back in 1998 for the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act, is opposing the medical marijuana initiative that's on the Oregon ballot this November. That initiative, Measure 74, would create a system of medical marijuana dispensaries in Oregon for the 36,000-plus people who, like Ray, have medical marijuana cards. Ray's views are already inflaming supporters ...   More

News Never say we bogarted the medical marijuana stories today. In response to this protest, which was in response to this editorial dismissing the merits of medical marijuana in The Oregonian, Oregon Green Free finally met this morning with Bob Caldwell, the daily's editorial page editor. Jim Klahr, CEO for Oregon Free, says the meeting was “pretty positive” and that the medical marijuana ...   More

News There are more tokers than Texans! So declared Russ Belville, outreach coordinator for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws during a session called "Using Data to Make Your Case for Legalization." The occasion was NORML's 2010 national conference. And the setting was the 100-year-old Governor Hotel, better known as the home of City Club's Friday Forums. Until Saturday, ...   More