Campaign For Recreational Marijuana Announces $2.3M In TV Ads

Smoking Pot Stock #1SALEM, OR — The campaign behind a ballot measure that would legalize recreational marijuana for adults will buy $2.3 million worth of television advertising.  The former head of addictions and mental health for the Oregon Health Authority urges voters to support marijuana legalization in a YouTube video.  Richard Harris says marijuana “is a pretty benign drug” compared with drugs like alcohol and heroin, and efforts to control it through the criminal justice system have failed.  Support from addiction experts like Harris can help legalization advocates rebut charges that decriminalizing the drug would fuel addiction problems.

Marijuana has been legalized in Colorado and Washington.

Other mental health experts and the law enforcement community oppose legalization, but nobody with deep pockets has stepped forward to make the case against it.

The proposal will appear on the November ballot as Measure 91.

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Beaver Walk & Beaver Believers Screening

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