Pubdate: Sun, 10 Feb 2008
Source: Oregonian, The (Portland, OR)
Copyright: 2008 The Oregonian
Contact:  http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/324
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n128/a09.html
Author: Jerry Gjesvold

ARGUMENTS DRAW LINE: CRIMINALS VS. PATIENTS

The ink is hardly dry on your editorial but proponents of legalizing 
marijuana have launched a new misinformation campaign in an effort to 
get you to accept their Trojan horse into your workplace.

It is true, as The Oregonian indicated, that the rate of marijuana 
use by adult Oregonians as reported by the state of Oregon is 50 
percent higher than the national rate. However, the proponents of 
marijuana use would have you believe that we should not be so 
concerned because the rate of use by Oregonians older than 13 is only 
38 percent higher than the national average.

All of this misinformation is being promoted by groups with an 
agenda: Legalize marijuana incrementally. These are the very same 
people who told you and me in 1998 that the program was for "very few 
seriously ill Oregonians" who would be allowed to use "small amounts 
of marijuana" and that "no employer would be obligated to accommodate 
such use."

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Do not let 
this second Trojan horse into our workplaces.

Jerry Gjesvold

Manager of employer services

Serenity Lane Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs

Albany 
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