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Gun, pot bills clear key legislative hurdle
Apr 21, 2013 at 9:12 AM
Oregon lawmakers don't appear to be interested in asking voters to create a sales tax or require labels on genetically modified foods. But plenty of other ideas are still very much alive after a key deadline came and went last week.

Combat veterans testify that medical pot helps with their PTSD
Apr 3, 2013 at 4:48 PM
Members of the Senate Committee on Judiciary are considering a bill that would allow Oregonians to legally obtain medical marijuana to treat PTSD. Currently the disorder is not on the list of ailments doctors can prescribe marijuana to treat.

Feds ask if pot garden poison a threat to predator
Apr 2, 2013 at 5:00 AM
For the first time, federal biologists are assessing whether illegal marijuana gardens in the back woods of the West could threaten the extinction of a wild animal.

Medical marijuana users don't have protections from sub-par pot
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Mar 28, 2013 at 6:32 PM
A Seattle man suspects the medical marijuana he smoked made him sick, but the state was unwilling to help him find out.

Medical pot clinic operator says government forced landlord to evict him
Mar 16, 2013 at 1:53 PM
The operator of a Prineville medical marijuana clinic is suggesting the federal government and local police intimidated his landlord into evicting him.

Life in prison for robber who killed Cottage Grove man
Mar 11, 2013 at 2:01 PM
A robber who shot and killed a man during a home invasion robbery in January 2012 will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Series of explosions highlights dangers of making hash oil
Mar 10, 2013 at 11:48 AM
Disasters from the do-it-yourself drug have been recorded primarily on the West Coast, where states have passed medical marijuana laws, in a phenomenon reminiscent of meth lab mishaps, but not as common.

Adults sentenced in helium death of teen girl
Mar 6, 2013 at 10:53 AM
A man and woman who threw a party for teens featuring booze and pot will spend time behind bars for their roles in the death of a 14-year-old Oregon girl who died after inhaling helium.

Parents: Medical marijuana helps boy, 11, with severe autism
Feb 27, 2013 at 12:16 PM
Tumors in his brain cause Alex Echols to lose control and lapse into uncontrollable rages. His severe autism makes it impossible for him to explain why he is mad - and the 11-year-old takes the anger out on himself. A tincture made from marijuana seems to help.

Discovery bets on 2 dope series about pot growers
Feb 17, 2013 at 9:34 AM
The Discovery network debuts a six-episode series, "Weed Country," at 10 p.m. Wednesday and will replace it with "Pot Cops" in April. Both examine the marijuana trade in northern California.

Treating PTSD: Expansion of medical marijuana to get hearing
Jan 31, 2013 at 8:42 PM
When the Legislature convenes next week, a Senate committee will hear public testimony on a proposal to allow people with post-traumatic stress disorder to get medical marijuana cards.

Washington could become pot source for neighboring states
Dec 8, 2012 at 10:23 AM
As Washington works out the various complications of its new law — including the fact that marijuana is still illegal under federal law — neighbors are watching with curiosity, and perhaps some apprehension.

What Oregonians need to know about the Wash. pot law
Dec 6, 2012 at 6:20 AM
Even though having up to an ounce of marijuana will be legal in Washington starting on Thursday, Portland police officers are reminding Oregonians that it’s still a violation to have pot in the Beaver State.

Strategy, timing key to pot legalization vote
Dec 2, 2012 at 9:49 AM
"It's amazing where we've come," says Rick Steves of the legalization measures Washington and Colorado voters approved last month. "It's almost counterculture to oppose us."

50 kids under 18 prescribed medical marijuana in Oregon
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Nov 28, 2012 at 3:27 PM
Her mother, Erin Purchase, decided she didn't want to give her daughter the anti-nausea and pain relief medicine a cancer patient would normally take.