Oregon's Medical Marijuana Law Under Attack!
Please help Voter Power protect Oregon’s patients.

Right-wing Republican Kevin Mannix has filed an initiative that would abolish Oregon's Medical Marijuana Program, instantly making criminals of over 16,000 sick Oregon patients. Mannix, an insurance defense attorney and former chairperson of Oregon's Republican Party, even plans a tax-payer-funded-gift to the pharmaceutical industry by requiring the state of Oregon to purchase less-effective perscription drugs, like Marinol, for Oregon's medical marijuana patients, who he intends to treat like criminals.

This terrible initiative has national implications because if the right-wing Republicans, insurance companies, and Big Pharma manage to dismantle the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program, they will be emboldened to kill the programs of all of the other medical marijuana states. This is an important time for our movement and all of us, especially sick patients, need us to move forward, not back to a time where grandmothers stricken with glaucoma and cancer are treated as drug dealers.

Voter Power intends to stop this right-wing, authoritarian Republican, but we need your help. Please join Voter Power by sending a contributions (anything will help) to:

Voter Power PO Box 3586 Portland, OR 97208

IT SAYS, IN PART: "g. replaces the Medical Marijuana Act with a more medically appropriate Marijuana Derivative and Synthetic Cannabinoid Prescription Program to focus help on those with legitimate needs"

The full text of Kevin Mannix's Act can be read at:

www.sos.state.or.us/elections/irr/2008/104text.pdf

Voter Power invites you to our Open House on September 9, 2007.
Please note that this event has been cancelled. We hope to see you at our booth at Hempstalk 2007!

OREGON LEGISLATIVE ACTION:  Senate Bill 465, the Patient Discrimination Bill, died in committee this week. Unfortunately, this bill will not rest in peace as it will rear its ugly head next legislative session, but we have some time to celebrate this victory, support our friends, and let our enemies know that there are political consequences when you work to discriminate against patients. Thanks to all the patients and activists who lobbied the legislature this session. A special thanks to Representatives Diane Rosenbaum and Peter Buckley who stood up for patients even when besieged upon by powerful business groups and politicians. Our work is clearly not done, but it is nice for the good guys to win one every now and again.

KNOW YOUR LEGISLATORS?  Find out who they are here.