Santa Maria Valley residents got briefed Thursday on the strategies used to battle marijuana use in San Diego County. Representatives of Health Advocates Rejecting Marijuana (HARM), a San Diego-based activist group, visited the city at the request of Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley to inform local leaders on how to reverse the growing trend of marijuana use by school-aged children. HARM was formed in 2005 from the San Diego County Marijuana Prevention Initiative after the county was determined to be the top producer of marijuana in the state. [continues 395 words]
Ballot measures affecting medical care and insurance issues were among the topics discussed Thursday at a forum at the Chetco Community Public Library. The Curry County League of Women Voters shifted the political spotlight from candidates to the eight ballot measures facing Oregon voters. League members Judy Kaplan, Georgia Nowlin and Tom Broderick provided a crowd of about a dozen South Coast residents background of five selected measures and addressed questions about them. Measures 32 (mobile home fees), 33 (medical marijuana), 35 (medical malpractice awards), 37 (land use regulations) and 38 (workers compensation insurance) were all discussed. [continues 896 words]
