Protect OMMA in 2009

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Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division 141 State Capitol Salem OR 97310-0722
phone (503) 986-1518 fax (503) 373-7414 TTY (503) 986-1521 elections.sos@state.or.us

Officials listed in black are identified by CRRH & NORML as allies to our cause. Please let them know you appreciate their support!

Officials listed in maroon are targeted by CRRH & NORML for letter writing campaigns.
Please respectfully let them know you disagree with their anti marijuana rhetoric.

Senator Ron Wyden
( D )

wyden.senate.gov
Washington Office
516 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-5244

Senator Gordon Smith
( R )..

senate.gov/~gsmith/webform.htm
Washington Office
404 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3753

Governor Ted Kulongoski
( D )

Salem Office
160 State Capitol 900 Court Street
Salem, OR 97301
Phone: 503-378-4582
Fax: 503-378-6827

Representative David Wu
( D - Oregon District 1)

david.wu@mail.house.gov
Washington Office
510 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-0855
Fax: 202-225-9497

Representative Greg Walden
( R - Oregon District 2)

greg.walden@mail.house.gov
Washington Office
1404 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-6730
Fax: 202-225-5774

Representative Earl Blumenauer
( D - Oregon District 3)

earl.blumenauer@mail.house.gov
Washington Office
1406 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-4811

Representative Peter DeFazio
( D - Oregon District 4)

peter.defazio@mail.house.gov
Washington Office
2134 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-6416

Representative Darlene Hooley
( D - Oregon District 5)

darlene.hooley@mail.house.gov
Washington Office
1130 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-5711
Fax: 202-225-5699

Meet the AOI Board Officers

This Regime is working very hard to take YOUR rights away.

Executive Committee
Chairman of the Board
BEN C. FETHERSTON, JR.
Fetherston & Edmonds, LLP

DAN D. HARMON
Hoffman Corporation
President

JAY M. CLEMENS
Treasurer

ALBERT J. GOSIAK
Diamond Fruit Growers, Inc.
Secretary

HOWARD D. WERTH
Leupold & Stevens, Inc.
Immediate Past Chairman

STEVEN D. PRATT
ESCO Corporation
District 1 Vice Chair

JENNIFER MURRAY
Evraz, Inc.
District 2 Vice Chair

dANIEL c. tHORNDIKE
Medford Fabrication
District 3 Vice Chair

pAUL g. hURD
Daimler Trucks North America LLC
District 4 Vice Chair

TIMOTHY r. CLEVENGER
The Papé Group
District 5 Vice Chair

WARREN j. THOMPSON
Windedahl, Rangitsch & Thompson

RICHARD D. BOYD
Boyd Coffee Company

ROBERT T. FRERES, JR.
Freres Lumber Co. Inc.

CANDICE L. HATCH
Bridgewater Group, Inc.

MARGARET D. KIRKPATRICK
NW Natural

VIRGINIA W. LANG
Qwest Communications

STEVEN M. MARSHALL
The New Group

NEIL J. NELSON
Siltronic Corporation

RONALD L. SAXTON
JELD-WEN, Inc

C. JEANNE STATON
Staton Companies

ALAN J. THAYER, JR.
Innovative Law Group
Heroes

Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.

William B. O'Shaughnessy M.D.

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Zodiac Sign: Cancer
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Latest Blog Entries

Apr 19, 2009 8:55 PM Oregon: SB388 Protest Rally - 4/20/09 8 AM - Steps of the Capitol
Mar 4, 2009 7:30 AM Salem-News.com: Activists Say Oregon Medical Marijuana Act is Under Attack
Feb 25, 2009 5:44 AM Medical Marijuana Update: Support for Workplace Bill is Thin; Plus, Mannix is Back
Feb 14, 2009 5:41 AM Cannabis at work? Resident, agencies cite pros and cons
Feb 4, 2009 8:55 PM ACLU of Oregon: New Law Would Discriminate Against Medical Marijuana Patients

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About me:

OMMA is Under Attack! Stand Up for Your Medical Rights!

Each of us has one small voice, but together we are a giant roar that can shake the hall of the State Capitol! Please let your voice be heard. Send an email or a fax, make a phone call or write a letter to the Drugfree Workgroup and Dan Harmon today and ask them to treat all disabled Oregonians with dignity and respect including medical marijuana patients.

Dan Harmon and Associated Oregon Industries are ready to severely roll back OMMA in 2009 Legislative Session. Harmon chairs the Drugfree Workplace Legislative Work Group, which wants the state Legislature to make substantial changes to the law approved by voters in November 1998.

Please feel free to e-mail Dan any time with general questions or comments. Or call (503) 221-8811 for more personal assistance.
Please direct your questions to Mr. Dan Harmon.

Hoffman Construction Company
Corporate Headquarters
805 SW Broadway, Suite 2100
Portland, OR 97205
Phone: (503) 221-8811
Fax: (503) 221-8934

AOI Headquarters
1149 Court Street NE
Salem, OR 97301-4030
Phone: 503.588.0050
Statewide: 800.452.7862
Fax: 503.588.0052
Email: aoi@aoi.org

One of the first orders of business, Harmon said, is to reintroduce Senate Bill 465, which would exempt employers from having to accommodate medical marijuana users, no matter when or where they use the drug. The Senate approved the bill in 2007, but it couldn’t clear the House.

The work group also wants to delete some of the conditions currently approved for treatment with marijuana, restrict the approval of new conditions, require employer notification when a worker applies for a medical-marijuana card and stiffen penalties for those who violate the act.

Who I'd like to meet:

Dan Harmon has been presenting to Chambers of Commerce all across the state to gain support for these goals in 2009

Reintroduce SB 465 to confirm that employers are not obligated to accommodate medical marijuana in any workplace, regardless of where the use occurs. (Basically, it means an employer could hang a “Medical Marijuana Patients Need Not Apply” sign on their business and could fire any patient without cause simply for having a card.)

Reintroduce SB 690 to establish Drugfree Workplace program standards and protect employers from lawsuits for false positives (in other words, if they fire you for failing a drug test even though you don’t take drugs, you can’t sue) and amend Workers Compensation law to make it clear that failing a drug test establishes a rebuttable presumption that a worker’s consumption was a major contributing cause of the accident (in other words, failing a drug test means you were impaired and drugs caused the accident, regardless if that’s true or not).

Introduce a new bill that would amend the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act to stop abuse. The statute would be amended as follows:

Reduce the quantity in possession to 2 oz., reduce the number of plants grown to 3, establish maximum reasonable plant size and prohibit communal grows (in other words, reduce possession limits down from 24 ounces and 24 plants and make it virtually impossible for the most seriously-ill patients to get enough medicine).

Require certification of a bona fide physician-patient relationship of a specific duration before a card may be issued (in other words, make medical marijuana “clinics” impossible and require the patient to have their own physician make the medical marijuana recommendation, which will unduly burden most patients, since many doctors belong to HMOs that won’t let them sign for cards, and many more are ignorant of cannabis as medicine and fear signing for cards).

Require verification of dosage, frequency of use and method of consumption from the doctor (in other words, require doctors to make exacting recommendations on cannabis use, even though such exacting standards have never been studied or identified in medical literature).

Require unsuccessful use of Marinol before being granted a Medical Marijuana card (in other words, force patients to use a mostly-ineffective drug that has much more severe side effects than marijuana and costs $20 per pill… that is, if the doctor nervous about writing marijuana recommendations will even want the hassle of writing a prescription for a federally-controlled Schedule III pill).

Require notification of the employer when an employee makes an application for a card (in other words, you need your boss’s permission to use marijuana as medicine, if he’d give such permission, otherwise you’re deciding between your healthcare and your job).

The maddening thing is that Harmon and these business leaders are attempting to solve a problem that doesn’t exist! The underlying premise is that medical marijuana patients in the workplace are going to lead to safety issues. However, during the ten years that OMMA has been in force, workplace fatalities, workplace injuries requiring time off, and workplace injuries requiring no time off have all declined.

"We were forced to exercise our instincts of self-preservation ...because we understood that a man-made law could not possibly wipe away our common sense when it came to survival."
Elvy Musikka

Oregon Marijuana Use and Workplace Statistics vs. Medical Marijuana (PDF)

Oregon Medical Marijuana Program Enrollment vs. Incidents of Workplace Fatalities (PDF)

Oregon Medical Marijuana Program Enrollment vs. Incidents of Injuries requiring a Loss of Workday (PDF)

Oregon Medical Marijuana Program Enrollment vs. Incidents of Injuries requiring no Loss of Workday (PDF)

Oregon Medical Marijuana Program Enrollment vs. Citations of Serious Health & Safety Violations (PDF)

Combined Incidents of Fatalities and Injuries during the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (PDF)

Oregon Medical Marijuana Program Enrollment vs. Past-Month Users of Marijuana in Oregon (PDF)

Oregon Medical Marijuana Program Enrollment vs. Past-Month Users of Marijuana in Oregon and US (PDF)

Oregon Medical Marijuana Program Enrollment vs. Comparison of Past-Month Users of Marijuana in Oregon and US (PDF)

All data from these graphs have been updated as of December 5, 2008 - ©2008 Oregon NORML
Permission is hereby granted for reproduction, presentation, and dissemination of these graphs, so long as the Oregon NORML Logo with ©2008 remains on the reproduction. Use of these graphics without Oregon NORML Logo with ©2008 is prohibited.

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OregonOregon Green Free

Nov 2 2008 4:43 PM

We must all unite against this. Dan Harmon is DANGEROUS to the work space and to America in general.

Just say NO to Dan Harmon and AOI.
Protect OMMA in 2009

Oct 30 2008 5:28 PM
Alice DiMicele

Dec 7 2007 8:47 PM

Thanks for finding me and making friends... AND especially for doing this work.

Medicine should not be illegal!
peace and blessings,
alice
Deep Woods Band

Dec 4 2007 12:04 AM

Thanks for the add!
Keep up the good work protecting my OMMP card. If you need a band for any kind of fund raising event let us know and we will be there.
Bob Shade & The Deep Woods Band
Obscured By Clouds

Dec 4 2007 1:23 AM

End the meontic reign of disinformation!

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