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Democratic Oregon Senator Ginny Burdick Ignores Marijuana Legalization Voters

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 08:00

If you're just joining us, Oregon's joint legislative committee that was assigned the task of implementing our recreational marijuana legalization got bogged down trying to restrict the medical marijuana program. Never mind that the Measure 91 recreational marijuana legalization initiative said, three times, that the existing medical marijuana program was not to be affected, and 56 percent of the voters agreed with that.

It appears as though some of our elected officials think our petitions and votes aren't what we want to see written into law. They think our initiatives are merely advice. And like then-Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire in 2011, they are so easily frightened by vague, unrealized federal threats they're willing to line-item veto the key provisions of sensible marijuana regulation.

And should these politicians succeed, they'll wreak the same sort of havoc on Oregon's successful medical marijuana program as we are now seeing...

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