Ballot Measure - Cannabuzz Columnist

Oregon Ballot Measure To Decriminalize All Drugs Poised To Qualify

- March 11, 2020April 24, 2020 01214

When cannabis became legal in Oregon in 2015, there were those who opposed legalization that asked if this meant “we should just legalize all drugs.” While the idea of doing so certainly led to some consideration as to what that might look like— including yours truly who imagined an alternate

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

- October 10, 2014July 22, 2020 0656

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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

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

- August 20, 2014June 14, 2020 0611

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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