Portland Tribune, 13 Sep 2012 – Thank you for running both pro- and anti-Measure 80 pieces on your Aug. 23 Insight page. Oregon voters deserve to see both sides of the marijuana legalization debate. Both sides are certainly entitled to their own opinions, but not their own "facts." That the law enforcement officials who wrote against Measure 80 trotted out the same old falsehoods and unsupported allegations is not just sad, but reprehensible (Marijuana legalization is a lot of smoke, Aug. 23). They should be ashamed.

Portland Tribune, 13 Sep 2012 – Two sheriffs and a district attorney wrote this opinion piece (Marijuana legalization is a lot of smoke, Aug. 23). Their organizations lose money and their buddies lose their jobs when they don’t have any more innocent pot smokers to bully around and run through the judicial systems. This article is morally dishonest and intellectually disgusting.

Portland Tribune, 13 Sep 2012 – I agree 100 percent the need to end marijuana prohibition nationwide (End expensive marijuana prohibition, Aug. 23). This would save our ever declining farmers from losing their farms and create millions of jobs, not to mention the benefits to our ecosystem.

Portland Tribune, 13 Sep 2012 – Simply absurd. We create a black market, then the (officials) stand back in "shock" while criminal elements take over that market (Marijuana legalization is a lot of smoke, Aug. 23). We are responsible for the deaths in Mexico. We created the drug war, we handed (the cartels) a multi-billion dollar business. Cartels now have planes, trains, guns, submarines and armies. Welcome to reality.

Corvallis Gazette-Times, 11 Sep 2012 – If Oregonians pass Measure 80 in the November election, the state would legalize marijuana for adults, but more importantly to Todd Dalotto, it would open the doors for medical research on the plant. "If it’s free from legal roadblocks, then patients can benefit greatly from the research that takes place in horticulture, in medicine," Dalotto said Monday in front of the City Club of Corvallis. "Unfortunately, clinical research is hindered to a prohibitive degree, mainly because of federal prohibition."

The Register-Guard, 09 Sep 2012 – UO Officials Should Take a More Deliberate Approach The University of Oregon has decided to begin random drug testing of student-athletes before a scheduled campus hearing next month — and before the administration consults with the University Senate, as required by the university’s constitution and other campus policies.

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The Mail Tribune, 09 Sep 2012 – 23-year-old’s father says drugs found in son’s home to blame for erratic behavior TALENT — The Talent man who died after a violent struggle with police last week might have used the dangerous drug "bath salts" hours before his death, according to family members.