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Campaign Works on '04 Ballot
Posted by CN Staff on January 21, 2004 at 10:35:56 PT
By Jake Scritsmier, The Daily Barometer
Source: Daily Barometer 
The Voter Power Foundation has already collected 50,000 of the 75,630 signatures required to throw the second installment of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act on the Nov. 2004 ballot in Oregon. A representative of the group was in the MU Quad Tuesday attempting to collect the remaining signatures for the initiative. OMMA2 aims to expand on the original act by legalizing nonprofit dispensaries of prescription pot that will be regulated by the Oregon Health Department.
Dan Ricca, Voter Power's representative on the OSU campus, is very confident about the bill passing in November."We're gonna make it," Ricca said.He demonstrated an uncanny knack for knowing which students to approach for their signature and which to just let walk on by."It is easy for me to tell who to pitch the medical marijuana initiative to. It is easy to pick out the liberals and conservatives on this campus," he said.Ricca is wary of speaking to the press because of a few bad experiences in his past. He is the top producer of signatures in the state of Oregon for initiatives related to medical marijuana and other Voter Power Foundation-supported initiatives."The media gets on me quite a bit because of this," he said.Ricca has worked with the Voter Power Foundation since 1998, and worked on his first initiative campaign in 1996.OSU students can expect a brief pitch and less than two minutes worth of paper work if they are interested in signing the OMMA2 initiative."I check if people seem qualified and if they are registered voters. This ensures accuracy and that the campaign is represented in a positive manner," Ricca said.The Voter Power Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Oregon that provides the public with pamphlets and "The Marijuana Report," a newspaper dealing with medical advances, politics and testimonials related to medical marijuana and its supporters throughout North America.Students interested in learning more about the potential ballot measure or signing the initiative should visit Dan Ricca in the MU Quad from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. through Friday of this week."I am very happy with the amount of signatures I have collected on the OSU campus. I hope that many more potential voters come to the Quad to show their support throughout the week," Ricca said. Note: Group hopes to gather remaining 25,000 signatures.Source: Daily Barometer (OR Edu)Author: Jake Scritsmier, The Daily Barometer Published: Wednesday, January 21, 2004Copyright: 2004 The Daily BarometerWebsite: http://barometer.orst.edu/Contact: baro.news studentmedia.orst.eduRelated Articles & Web Site:Voter Power Foundation http://www.voterpower.orgVoter Power Seeks Marijuana Law Reforms http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15509.shtmlMedical Marijuana Backers Seek To Expand http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15477.shtml
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on February 04, 2004 at 14:39:40 PT
News Article from Snipped Source
Amendment Backers Shelve Effort To Ease Marijuana Enforcement The Lane County initiative would have cut off money for arresting and prosecuting most adult users February 4, 2004A Eugene-based group has dropped its effort to put a charter amendment on the ballot directing the Lane County sheriff and district attorney to stop arresting and prosecuting most adult users of marijuana. A recent poll showed that such an amendment "is clearly not viable at this time," said Chris Wise of the political action committee Sensible Lane County. The amendment would have cut off funding for the arrest, prosecution and jailing of adult marijuana users by the sheriff's office, the district attorney and the county jail. The amendment would not have applied to minors, people operating vehicles or commercial growers. In November, Seattle residents passed a city initiative making the arrest and prosecution of adult marijuana use the lowest priority for law enforcement. In 1973, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize possession of a small amount of marijuana, reducing the offense to a violation with a maximum fine of $100. But voters have since rejected six attempts to legalize the drug for recreational use. Snipped:Complete Article: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/107589947932470.xml
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Comment #3 posted by billos on January 21, 2004 at 13:44:24 PT:
WWUH in Hartford CT.....
has a great alternative program on daily from 11 am to 1 pm. I think they are calling it “Real Democracy” or something like that. They had Howard Dean on and I think he would be awful to have in office. It would be like putting G. Gordon Liddy in the Attorney General seat.
Anyway, he said that he would not endorse medical marijuana until the world of science dictates that it has any medical value or not. He says he will wait for “the test results”. Again, who the hell is going to do this test? He’s a DOCTOR, GD it! And, hasn’t the government been “waiting“for these tests for 30 years now? He said that the government should not be the one to determine what is medicine and what is not. But hasn’t the government already determined that cannabis definitely has no medical what-so-ever and is more dangerous than opiates hence the Schedule I category? 
This guy is as nuts as bush, and much smarter. He could be dangerous.
Not to bloat on but there was a woman announcer who came on with a commentary shortly after Dean was done spewing crap. The dear woman was criticizing bush and his cohorts and went on to articulate the real State of the Nation speech compared to what bush was babbling about the other night. She would recite a number and then tell you what the significance of that number is. It went something like this:0..the number of times bush met a military plane carrying dead soldiers home.
100..  the number of fund raisers bush attended in 2003.
10,000.. the number of Iraqi civilians killed in the war since the start in 2003.
500..the number of Americans killed in the Iraqi war so far.
385..the number of Americans killed since the end of hostilities was declared by bush
38..     the number of GI’s that have committed suicide either while in Iraq or after 
        returning home.
100 billion.. the number of dollars bush has spent on the war in 2003 I wish I could remember the rest. Don’t anyone quote me on the info. I took it all from memory, didn’t intend to write about it. Very interesting though. Sorry for the lousy format.
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Comment #2 posted by CorvallisEric on January 21, 2004 at 11:38:25 PT
Watch him live on webcam ...
... if your bandwidth is high enough. I haven't been down there yet so I don't know for sure if the obvious person in the square interacting with others is him.http://webcam.oregonstate.edu/streaming.php
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Comment #1 posted by OverwhelmSam on January 21, 2004 at 10:41:59 PT:
Just An Idea
When they sign the petition, provide them with information on where and when to go to register and vote.
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