:thumbsup:This needs to happen nationwide :smokin:!!! Let Oregon show us the way. As it stands now the DEA is in violation of the law by keeping cannabis in a schedule I catagory. The Law has been interpreted by the Supreme Court that the states decide where a drug should be classified and that is then Federal Law. In Gonzales vs Oregon the Supreme Court OVERTURNED the ruling in Gonzales vs Raich which said the DEA does have a right to uphold the federal controlled substance act and arrest small Medical Marijuana growers and users. In other words the Supreme Court said the Federal Gov doest not have the power to arrest state legalized growers and their patients :jumphappy:The DEA should have, by law, changed marijuana from a schedule I cass to a schedule II since the medical efficacy of marijuana has been proven and made legal in 12 states. The DEA should have done this in 1996 when medical marijuana was made legal in California. In fact Rev Carl Olsen of the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church (whose religious sacrament is cannabis) filed a petition with the DEA in May 2008 to re-classify cannabis. Just this past week he was notified that the DEA has excepted his petition. Question: Why is a private citizen the one to force the DEA to abide by the law? Just :google: Carl Olsen or the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church/Iowa. Yeah, believe it or not the corn state IOWA (soon to be the HEMP state for growing legal Industrial Hemp like we did in WWII, it was against the law back then for farmers NOT to grow Hemp to help the war effort imp:. At harvest time Hemp plants tower 4 feet over the 12' corn along the fence rows. Since it has come out that the U.S. DHHS holds a patent on any future meds made from the cannabis plant (they actually patented the plant and any future meds to be made from it for neuropain control and nausea, etc)...and considering that Jocelyn Elders, our Surgeon General, along with the Young/Future AMA Members have joined the ranks of such insightful people as Francis L. Young who said in 1986..."Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the most theraputically active suhstances known. It would be arbitrary, unreasonable and capricious for the DEA to stand between those sufferer's and the substance."-Francis L. Young-DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge, 1986. Plus the American College of Physicians endorsing Medical Marijuana this is the next logical step to go. Remember Obama will stop the DEA raids by diverting their funds and the states will then be free to make changes concerning Medical and personal use of marijuana. Plus the DEA/FDA (whoever) will have to change the Federal Pharmcutical Schedule of Cannabis from schedule I to schedule II. Let's all do our part to make this change happen nationwide. :giggity::s4: Peace...:smokin:
eltone Reviewed by eltone on . Group Trying To Legalize, Tax Pot In Oregon PORTLAND, Ore. -- A group is collecting signatures to get an initiative put on the ballot in 2010 that would allow the state of Oregon to sell marijuana in stores like they do cigarettes. Monday, the group, called Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, started getting signatures for the Cannabis Tax Act. The campaign needs 82,769 valid signatures to get the proposal on the November 2010 ballot. Their deadline for the signatures is July 2010. The group said a tax on those stores could put millions of Rating: 5