Something, something stoners put down the pipe long enough something something.

Oh, those hapless potheads. Can't fill out a form correctly or remember if they're eligible voters. We love ya, potheads!

My most recent encounter with one of those signature collectors:

I'm alone at a MAX station waiting for a train on my lunch break. I notice a young man on the other platform with his back to me, staring off into the sky for several minutes. Finally I see the train approaching a couple blocks away. At that time, I see movement out of the corner of my eye, turn, and it's the signature collector waving his arms at me like a stranded castaway to a passing cruise ship.

"Sign the petition to legalize marijuana?"
"I already signed it."
"Oh, this is a different one." How do you know which one I signed?
"Well, I need to catch this train so I don't have time."
"It's ok," and with that he jumps off the platform onto the tracks, crosses the cable barricade, and gets onto my platform. The train is now a block away.
"I really don't have time." He's not interested in my protests. Fine, I'll sign the damn thing.

He hands it to me and there are about four signatures on it. Really doing a bang-up job there.

I write my name down and sign it as the train pulls into the stop. Before I can write my address, the doors open. I walk onto the train. He stands in the doors as they try to close on him and open back up.

"I need your address," he says.
"I don't have time. Either get on this train with me or leave." He does neither. The doors close on him again.
"Just tell me your address."
"I'm not going to tell you my address. I need to go."
"Just tell it to me." The doors close on him a third time.
"I don't have time!"

Finally he accepts his fate and walks away.


Moral: A higher rate of invalid signatures can only be due to discriminatory practices by the Secretary of State, and couldn't have anything to do with the typical nature of the people gathering signatures and those providing them.

Honestly, who cares? The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act (Initiative 9) is the one that really counts and it's destined for the ballot this November. Plus we got Willie Nelson on board! ;-D

I-24 would have repealed Prohibition. Period. You are spreading inaccurate information.
Marijuana will be the hottest political news all summer long, and candidate after candidate - including Kate Brown - will find that taking the drug warrior platform is a ticket to loserville, just like Dwight Holton discovered.