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Oregon’s Anti-Cannabis Legalization Ballot Measure Director Makes Her Case, Fails Miserably

- October 10, 2014July 22, 2020 0544

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Every Election season, the Oregon Voters' Pamphlet arrives in the mail.An informal poll I took shows that approximately .02 percent of voters actually read it before tossing it into the recycling bin. Which is a shame, as you can learn a great deal from its pages. I certainly did. Any individual or

Working in Weed: Cannabis Careers Are Coming

- September 10, 2014June 14, 2020 0634

A young Black man with a backpack stands in front of a yellow banner behind him which reads Legal next to a cannabis leaf

MAYBE YOU'VE always wanted a job in the weed industry. Not slinging dime bags to polo-shirted broheims, or hawking hand-blown glass on a dirty blanket in the parking lot of a Dave Matthews concert—but an actual, honest-to-Jah, living-wage job with benefits, paid holidays, and even business cards. Is that even a thing? The

(From 2014) Meet New Approach Oregon, Organizers Behind The Cannabis Legalization Ballot Measure

- August 20, 2014June 14, 2020 0530

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I SPOKE with Peter Zuckerman, communications director for New Approach Oregon (newapproachoregon.com), whose marijuana ballot initiative qualified last month for the November ballot. I asked him to break down exactly how the measure, if passed, would work. "Treating marijuana as a crime has failed," he says. "Instead of letting the current