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Past
Alerts:
Oregon
activists
are
fighting
back
against
recriminalization
7/24/97
In the wake of the bill, recently signed by Governor Kitzhaber, to recriminalize
the possession of personal use amounts (under one ounce) of marijuana in
Oregon, signatures are being gathered across the state to halt implementation
of the law until a voter referendum in November, 1998. The bill provides
for sentences of up to 30 days in jail, as well as a mandatory 6-month
suspension of possessors' driver's licenses.
In order to forestall the bill's application, Oregonians need to collect
48,841 valid signatures by October 1, 1997. If the signatures are collected,
the new law would not go into effect until it could be voted on by the
entire state. Oregon was the first state in the union to decriminalize
personal possession of marijuana, in 1973.
It is very important to reform efforts nationwide that this signature
drive be a success. Those wishing to help (volunteers, as well as money
are urgently needed), should contact Sandee Burbank, Director of Mothers
Against Misuse and Abuse, at [email protected].
Further information is available from Portland NORML at http://pantless.com/~pdxnorml/.
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Issue #4, 7/24/97
Past Alerts: Oregon activists are fighting back against recriminalization | Proposition 200 | International Blackmail: The word from down under is... BUSTED -- US State Department is exposed blackmailing Australia to resist reform | Link of the Week: Cannabis policy report makes front page news in New Zealand | Organization News: One new Advisory Board members signs up, while another bids farewell but not goodbye | Media Alert: Good discussions of medical marijuana and the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity by the New York Times | Quote of the Week
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