Originally Posted by Fireball2
Originally Posted by 700LH
Originally Posted by Fireball2
Mind altering substances that contribute to about 90% of societies crime problems really can't be compared to candy.

Except on the fire.

It's more the money from blackmarket prices caused by laws against the product that cause most of the crime.
It's all about the money on both sides of the isle.


The fact that weed is another lever for greed and corruption to entangle itself in society is good enough reason for me to vote against it.
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Seems some can't understand that the corruption and greed is a direct result of laws against it.. Duh!

Oregon's been fuqed up a long time nothing new here

Suffrage and temperance if you please...

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The fight for woman suffrage began in Oregon just following the Civil War and reached its height in the early 1900s during the Progressive Era. The movement for women’s equality through voting rights was achieved with a victorious campaign in 1912. During the Progressive Era in American history, from about 1890 to 1920, many other groups rose up to fight against perceived social injustices and for protection of the people. These groups sought to effect change in their communities locally and then in the nation and world. Those who supported both suffrage and temperance in Oregon included many members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) and the Anti-saloon League.

The temperance movement was a move to apply the moral principle of living with moderation and self-control to the issue of alcohol consumption. Many temperance organizations led the campaign for prohibition of alcohol during this period. Like the woman suffrage movement, it was organized on local, state, regional, national, and international levels. Many of the woman suffrage campaign leaders supported temperance and vice versa. The fifth Oregon W.C.T.U. president Mrs. Lucia H. Faxon Additon believed that the arrogance of man had denied woman freedom and equality before the law. However,