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Go get um Jeff! We may have crappy weather here in OR but we are lucky to have a pretty good group of Senators and Congressmen to represent us. Yes I did vote for him, pretty much voted party lines. Couldnât pay me to live in the south.
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Why shouldnât he vote for legalization? The drug war is a colossal failure and imprisoning people for supplying, possessing, or using MJ is a colossal waste of federal and state money. Itâs a Senatorâs job to vote to end ineffective programs like the war on drugs and to end wasteful, pointless spending. Even if it is just a state referendum, I am pleased that Sen. Merkley is showing some leadership on this issue.
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Good on him. Also not a surprise but it is good there is public political support now.
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I think I just realized what Smoke On the Water was REALLY about.
I hope the legalization of pot has the same momentum as gay marriage has. America needs to join the twenty first century.
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Portlanders can just go across the Columbia river to Vancouver, WA for weed now. Not so easy for the rest of the state.
âCome visit, donât stayâ slogan: âI urge them to come and come many, many times to enjoy the beauty of Oregon. But I also ask them, for heavenâs sake, donât move here to live.â ~ Tom McCall
I have nothing but respect for both our senators.
Sorry, Iâm in LA, but Iâve been to Portland, and Iâm coming, and Iâm staying some day.
The farmers markets, the Restaurant scene, the Micro Breweries, that Rose Garden thing, the food carts.
Iâm not even bringing my car from Cali, so you wont be able to identify me.
Iâll fly over the border on a plane, and rent a car with Oregon plates until I can parlay my sizable equity into and new car and a new house.
If anybody asks me, Iâm gonna tell them from SouthernâŚOregon. Medford.
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Iâve never understood one of the principle arguments for the war on Cannabis â to keep it out of the hands of kids. I remember back in the early 70âs â seeing 9 years old kids smoking weed at the local playground, and kids tripping on acid in Jr High. Theyâve never been able to keep it out of the hands of kids. The so called WAR has been one of the biggest policy failures in history. My wife teaches World History to freshmen. Every time she mentions the Hindu Kush, the whole class giggles. How effective has this war been if 14 year olds find âKushâ unbearably hilarious?
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Here on the West Coast weâre at the point where if you ask someone to free associate, starting with the phrase âWar on Potâ the first thing most people come up with is something along the lines of âcolossal failureâ or âhuge waste of money.â I predict Oregon will legalize this year, California in 2016, and that a majority of states will have legalized for recreational use by 2018. The handwriting is on the wall, itâs just a matter of time.
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We would be a desert with out the rain! Sitting cozy while the rain falls is one of the most relaxing sounds. . . As for the history of the struggle for Oregon Pot reform, we knew we would outlive the opposition eventually.
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Yes, and not only have they failed, they continue to lie and use hysterical scare tactics.
Remember that Duke study that shows heavy use of Marijuana as an adolescent lowers the IQ? Yeah, its bullshit.
But alcohol does.
Theyâll never give up, but I think at this point they have no credibility. Like all the very scary stuff that happens when you decriminalize? Yeah, its bullshit.
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Why would anybody believe any of the drug warriors not just because theyâve propagated a failed policy, but they feel the need to constantly mislead, deceive and lie.
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Thatâs my man Merkley! Of course I voted for him!
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Yes!
The challenge is getting legal grow without destroying neighborhoods in the process. It really does stink for a block around during late grow season. Until the prices drop to near nothing every asshat with a gun waiting to make a quick buck is going to break into a house. Still not a good reason to keep it illegal, but making dope legal should still have some regulation.
Watch his poll numbers turn upwards real fastâŚ
But this really goes to a much more fundamental queston than legal pot. We are watching a ruling class that looks like a flashback to the mid 20th Century, ruling a populace that looks like a scene from âModern Family.â
When the suit and tie dinosaurs figure out that all the little furry creatures in bluejeans have taken over our cultural evolution, maybe theyâll start changing to match that reality. But more likely, theyâll all just have to pass on before our representative government looks like the people it is supposed to represent.
Seriously, every day, Congress looks less and less like We, the People and more and more like some strange antiquated private menâs club, inhabited by relics of a bygone era, and they only feel at home among each other.
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People need to keep a profound, fundamental fact in mind when they wonder how it ever got so crazyâŚBillionaires of the early 20th Century saw marijuana as a commodity competitor that they could eliminate by conspiring with law enforcement at the highest levels, thereby creating the âreefer madnessâ lies and distortions, and everything that has happened since is just a cover-up for that conspiracy.
Every other excuse they use is just a contrived addendum to that reality, and it really was exacerbated when the hippy generation started defying the âevil drugâ issue by smoking it. The rest of the story began to unfold, and the public was re-re-educated by its own members, as people like Jack Herrer published the truth in a number of forms, and the myriad uses of this versatile plant were once again touted out loud.
Whenever we argue over any other excuse, we are just playing under their original umbrella of deception. The conversation needs to go to marijuana as a commodity, with all the contrived cultural sub-context dealt with as just that, an obstruction to and a diversion from the real conversation.
Steve Jobs was a Trim-tab. To think that such a simple, lowly electronic device as the iPod could influence subsequent generations to see a more open philosophy of life, is almost astonishing, but trace the cultural generational changes to day 1 when the iPod was released. Itâs been trans-formative. A similar thing happened at the end of the 50s with the Sony transistor radio. I first heard She Loves You, Like a Rolling Stone, a Day in the Life, and even Rocky Raccoon, through a little ear-bud and that tiny transistor radio. It too, was a trim tab. Thatâs what McLuhan was on about. The Medium IS the Message.
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