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Oregon is 4th in nation in prescription drug abuse
by Sen. Jeff Kruse (R-Roseburg) The Oregon Senate passed a significant bill this week: Senate Bill 470. SB 470 deals with Oregon’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, which was created two years ago...
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Rep. Jim Thompson to receive award for advocacy work
Salem, OR–Rep. Jim Thompson (R-Dallas) has been selected to receive the 2012 Advocate-of-the Year Award for his work on legislative policy involving Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants (DUII)....
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Time for Oregonians to learn the facts about marijuana
by Sen. Doug Whitsett The facts regarding the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana have changed over the past several decades. Marijuana contains two compounds that produce significant...
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End mandatory student drug testing in public schools
by Rob Taylor In an effort to follow a national trend, at the beginning of the current school year, The Bandon School Board instituted a mandatory drug-testing policy for students who participate in...
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Legalizing Marijuana
Right From the Start I continue to be puzzled by an attitude that if something is difficult to enforce then we should abandon attempts and just legalize it. That is apparently the attitude of...
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I am traveling today and have turned my column over to James Puterbaugh, M.D. Dr. Puterbaugh has been a Portland physician for over thirty years. He is a 1973 graduate of the University of California...
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Oregon state agencies support sex ed conference that promotes meth use
by NW Spotlight KOIN TV in Portland ran a rather astonishing story Tuesday night. The story was about a sex education conference held each year in Seaside, OR – the Adolescent Sexuality Conference....
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What should Oregon fund by exploiting people’s addictions?
by Dan Lucas Oregon has now passed Ballot Measure 91, legalizing the use of marijuana. Oregonians voted 56% to 44% to allow the “possession, manufacture and sale of marijuana by/to adults, subject to...
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Knute Buehler announces legislative agenda for 2016 session
Rep. Knute Buehler Priorities: Preventing prescription drug abuse and protecting whistleblowers Bend, OR – Representative Knute Buehler announced this week the two bills he will introduce during the...
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America: A heavily medicated nation
by Dan Lucas Several years ago I ran for state representative in a deep blue suburb of Portland. At the time, I had a very naïve view of politics and didn’t understand the significance of voter...
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After legalization, marijuana easier to come by than water, say high schoolers
by Colin Cortbus An explicit student-produced online documentary depicts a rampant culture of illicit drug taking by students at a top Portland public school, just months after recreational marijuana...
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Saving Bend
Right From the Start We were in Bend last weekend. We love being in Bend. What’s not to like? The setting reminds us of Whitefish, Montana, where we were married forty plus years ago. Few places can...
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Time for Oregonians to learn the facts about marijuana
by Sen. Doug Whitsett The facts regarding the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana have changed over the past several decades. Marijuana contains two compounds that produce significant...
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End mandatory student drug testing in public schools
by Rob Taylor In an effort to follow a national trend, at the beginning of the current school year, The Bandon School Board instituted a mandatory drug-testing policy for students who participate in...
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Legalizing Marijuana
Right From the Start I continue to be puzzled by an attitude that if something is difficult to enforce then we should abandon attempts and just legalize it. That is apparently the attitude of...
View ArticleMarijuana and President Obama
I am traveling today and have turned my column over to James Puterbaugh, M.D. Dr. Puterbaugh has been a Portland physician for over thirty years. He is a 1973 graduate of the University of California...
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Oregon state agencies support sex ed conference that promotes meth use
by NW Spotlight KOIN TV in Portland ran a rather astonishing story Tuesday night. The story was about a sex education conference held each year in Seaside, OR – the Adolescent Sexuality Conference....
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What should Oregon fund by exploiting people’s addictions?
by Dan Lucas Oregon has now passed Ballot Measure 91, legalizing the use of marijuana. Oregonians voted 56% to 44% to allow the “possession, manufacture and sale of marijuana by/to adults, subject to...
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Knute Buehler announces legislative agenda for 2016 session
Rep. Knute Buehler Priorities: Preventing prescription drug abuse and protecting whistleblowers Bend, OR – Representative Knute Buehler announced this week the two bills he will introduce during the...
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America: A heavily medicated nation
by Dan Lucas Several years ago I ran for state representative in a deep blue suburb of Portland. At the time, I had a very naïve view of politics and didn’t understand the significance of voter...
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