This editorial that ran over the weekend in The Sunday Oregonian has inflamed a medical marijuana group to call for a protest Thursday, July 29 outside the newspaper.
Oregon Green Free CEO Jim Klahr says his group was unhappy that the daily called an upcoming medical marijuana ballot measure a "charade." The group also took offense to The Oregonian's use of quotation marks around certain words such as "patient", suggesting illegitimacy of marijuana patients and the medicine they use.
"Like, are they real?" Klahr says. "Our goal is to educate The Oregonian that patients are real."
Members of OGF will protest outside the newspaper's downtown office at 1320 SW Broadway at 10:30 am on Thursday, July 29.
"We want to dispel these myths," Klahr said. "If we've got places like The Oregonian writing things like that, I mean that's insane."
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Source: Willamette Week
Author: Hadley Malcolm
Copyright: 2010 Willamette Week Newspaper & WWEEK.COM
Oregon Green Free CEO Jim Klahr says his group was unhappy that the daily called an upcoming medical marijuana ballot measure a "charade." The group also took offense to The Oregonian's use of quotation marks around certain words such as "patient", suggesting illegitimacy of marijuana patients and the medicine they use.
"Like, are they real?" Klahr says. "Our goal is to educate The Oregonian that patients are real."
Members of OGF will protest outside the newspaper's downtown office at 1320 SW Broadway at 10:30 am on Thursday, July 29.
"We want to dispel these myths," Klahr said. "If we've got places like The Oregonian writing things like that, I mean that's insane."
NewsHawk: Ganjarden: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: Willamette Week
Author: Hadley Malcolm
Copyright: 2010 Willamette Week Newspaper & WWEEK.COM
