Pubdate: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 Source: Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) Mon, 30 Jul 2007 Copyright: 2007 The Oregonian Contact: http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/324 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n899/a01.html?72532 Author: Anthony Johnson NOT FOOLED BY MANNIX PLAN Politicians must love billion-dollar boondoggles because they can't help proposing them. Republican Kevin Mannix's plan to recriminalize medical marijuana and provide a taxpayer handout to the pharmaceutical industry could easily cost our state millions upon millions of dollars. His so-called Oregon Crimefighting Act (Letters, July 26) would not reduce crime by making thousands of sick and disabled patients felons. Patients use medical marijuana to help them retain their sight despite their glaucoma and to help them survive through chemotherapy treatments. Mannix wants to force hard-working Oregonians to shell out their money to the pharmaceutical industry for drugs that patients don't even want. Please don't be fooled by yet another Republican boondoggle. Don't support Initiative Petition 104. ANTHONY JOHNSON Political director, Voter Power Southeast Portland - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom