High times for marijuana marchers.

Maybe there were good vibes after all from the ninth annual Million Marijuana March that rolled out at high noon on May 3 through downtown Portland.

Less than 48 hours after an estimated 700 marchers demonstrated to protest pot prohibition and to support the use of medical marijuana, conservative activist Kevin Mannix announced he'd end a ballot initiative drive that would have replaced the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program with prescription THC pills. As first reported Monday on www.wweek.com, Mannix says there wasn't enough time or money to collect the 82,769 valid signatures needed to put his initiative on the November ballot.

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