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
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