YouTube: Tom Potter Radio Ad endorsing Measure 74

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• Impacts 1 year ago

  NO Limits, NO Boundaries, NO ON MEASURE 74

  M74 does nothing to control the existing program, as M74 will not infringe on a cardholder’s ability to produce their own marijuana or to designate a person responsible for a marijuana grow site. In home grows and existing caregiver growers will continue to go unregulated continuing to create problems in our communities and cause law enforcement to have to divert their resources to deal with the existing abuses. M74 allows for the investigation and prosecution of people who are out of compliance, and then on the other hand allows convicted felons to become dispensary directors or employees five years after conviction, sounds like a revolving door.

  There are no defined limits on locations or grow sites that have been written into the original bill. Why would Oregon Voters trust and vote for a bill that is undefined and gives authority to DHS? Many Oregonian Voters are against M74 and have voted NO.
  As the 11 Oregon Citizen’s Initiative Review found, “Proponents are saying “trust us” before rules are made, availability of marijuana will increase, inviting illegal activity. Convicted felons can become dispensary directors or employees five years after conviction. “Measure 74, a thinly veiled attempt to legalize marijuana, has a high probability of being abused!” wwwreview74.org

  NO Limits, NO Boundaries, NO ON MEASURE 74

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  Jennifer Alexander 1 year ago

  Tom Potter, former Police Chief and Mayor of Portland, disagrees with your assessment. What credibility to do you have, hiding behind a screen name and spamming various websites with the same incorrect info over and over again?

  Three times you posted the exact same thing - with incorrect information and a typo in the web address.

  So to correct your errors:

  1. The website you were shooting for was www.review74.org and it is worth noting that 13 of the members of the 24 member panel (or a majority) SUPPORTED Measure 74.

  2. "M74 does nothing to control the existing program" - it isn't supposed to. There is nothing wrong with the existing program, except for LACK OF ACCESS and LACK OF SUPPLY. Even the often touted statistics of "high abuse" are false - for instance, in 2009, Douglas county reported a "33% abuse rate" but that statistic is at best incorrect math, and at worst, completely false. What that 33% refers to is the TOTAL drug investigations (72) - and only 24 for the WHOLE YEAR of 2009 were INVESTIGATIONS into "out of compliance" grows. What is missing from those statistics is the number of convictions - but even if we were to presume that the 24 investigations were all convicted, that is far less than 1% of the total patients in that county (over 1600). It is more likely that less than 1/2 were convicted, if even that.

  3. "M74 allows for the investigation and prosecution of people who are out of compliance..." - if there is a health code violation, we don't raid McDonald's. If there is a building code violation, we don't raid that building. There are agencies that are responsible for oversight - and it is NOT the police. The police should be dealing with CRIME - not patients.

  4. "...and then on the other hand allows convicted felons to become dispensary directors or employees five years after conviction, sounds like a revolving door." Why shouldn't people who have served their time be allowed to help patients? If they operate outside the law, they are not given exemption status from the criminal laws. AND they are subject to reasonable inspection. It would be silly for someone who wanted to deal in the "black market" to do so under Measure 74 - with all the tracking required, inspections, etc they would paint a perfect evidence trail - this is just scare tactics that have no basis in reality - we will not see black market dealers utilizing Measure 74 for a "cover." What we WILL see is experienced growers going legitimate to provide for patients.

  5. "There are no defined limits on locations or grow sites that have been written into the original bill." There are pretty clear location "limits" and room for more to be added as needed:

  (10) The department shall promulgate administrative rules necessary to implement this Act within 6 months of the effective date of this Act, including, but not necessarily limited to, rules governing:

  (a) Permissible locations for dispensaries; initially dispensaries shall not be established within 1,000 feet of any school or within residential neighborhoods;

  (b) Minimum requirements for security plans of dispensaries; and

  (c) Penalties for dispensaries if directors or employees of a dispensary are convicted of criminal violations involving the operation of the dispensary.

  6. "Why would Oregon Voters trust and vote for a bill that is undefined and gives authority to DHS?" Are you kidding? Are you aware of what all DHS does? Child protection services, SSI, SSDI, OHP, addiction services, welfare, food stamps, elder abuse, WIC, health department, vaccines, licensing for a variety of things, including EMT's, food handler's cards, drinking water, etc. If you don't trust them - maybe you should be worried about all these areas that ACTUALLY affect your daily life, and not trying to prevent the patient down the street from getting their medicine. DHS is very experienced at handling all these various health and human services, and are the best organization to take this on - particularly since they oversee the current OMMP.
  http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/

  7. "As the 11 Oregon Citizen’s Initiative Review found, “Proponents are saying “trust us” before rules are made, availability of marijuana will increase, inviting illegal activity. " No - the invitation for illegal activity is allowing thousands of patients to use a medicine that is solely available on the black market. We created a DEMAND for black market marijuana, by excluding a supply system. Measure 74 corrects that by regulating the commercial sale of marijuana so that patients can purchase marijuana without having to resort to back alleys and drug dealers. Instead, they can purchase their marijuana in a dispensary, much like other patients can purchase THEIR medicine in the pharmacy. Could you imagine if your doc prescribed you a narcotic medicine and then sent you to the back alley to go "find your own?"

  8. "“Measure 74, a thinly veiled attempt to legalize marijuana, has a high probability of being abused!”" - no it isn't. There are blatant attempts at legalization - one such attempt is OCTA 2012, another is the Buckley legislation to be introduced in January. THIS Measure is about medicine - but pass or fail, legalization is on the way. Doctors and scientists agree that studies need to be done in a LEGAL environment to determine what, if any, harmful effects there are for marijuana and the best ways to USE marijuana. In an illegal market, it is all guesswork. Legalization will come and when it does, it wouldn't be a "surprise" to voters - they will clearly know and they will support it. Reefer madness is dead.

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