About this episode
TV-UNwww.Mercycenters.org & Mercy-TV present a tutorial on creating canna buttermercytv.blip.tvyour video blog, and action alert network here http://mercycenters.org/action/alert.html Right-wing Republican Kevin Mannix has filed an initiative that would abolish Oregon's Medical Marijuana Program, instantly making criminals of over 16,000 sick Oregon patients. Mannix, an insurance defense attorney and former chairperson of Oregon's Republican Party, even plans a tax-payer-funded-gift to the pharmaceutical industry by requiring the state of Oregon to purchase less-effective prescription drugs, like Marinol, for Oregon's medical marijuana patients, who he intends to treat like criminals. This terrible initiative has national implications because if the right-wing Republicans, insurance companies, and Big Pharma manage to dismantle the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program, they will be emboldened to kill the programs of all of the other medical marijuana states. This is an important time for our movement and all of us, especially sick patients, need us to move forward, not back to a time where grandmothers stricken with glaucoma and cancer are treated as drug dealers. Kevin Mannix's Act can be read at:http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/irr/2008/104text.pdf This is very serious. Mannix nearly was elected Governor and authored Measure 11 that gave Oregon long mandatory minimums for crimes. We will have to rise to the occasion, work together, and crush this attempt to return Oregon medical cannabis to the dark ages. Kevin Mannix, a powerful well connected Republican, has filed an initiative that would repeal the OMMA here in Oregon and replace it with an synthetic-marijuana system. This is a threat to OMMA. If it passes all patients would be forced at gunpoint to switch to marinol or other pharmaceutical synthetics allowed by him and the other Prohibitionists.http://hexi.com/cctv/schedule.php3?keyword=Mercy%20TVhttp://eugenecannabistv.home.comcast.net/
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Release Date
Nov 27, 2007
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Runtime
29:02
