Category: News

Training Opportunity for Health Care Organizations

Compassionate Oregon is now offering training for health care professionals on Medical Marijuana in Oregon. Health care professionals serving patients who use medical marijuana need to know about the Oregon program in order to protect patients, educate family members, avoid and identify side effects and be aware of drug...

Marijuana Now Legal for All Oregonians

Oregon’s Ballot Measure 91 legalizing personal use of marijuana by adult Oregonians takes effect today. July 1st, the “freedom” day set forth in Measure 91, is finally here!  Many thanks to all those that worked on the campaign and for those that have laid the groundwork for this day...

The Case for Retaining and Improving the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program

Introduction The Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) has become an integral part of health care for some 70,000 Oregonians. It provides a vital service to many who have exhausted all other sources for relief from chronic pain, cancer and other debilitating conditions, or who have found its benefits superior to pharmaceutical medications....

American Academy Of Pediatrics: Reschedule Marijuana To Allow Research

Reprinted from The Weed Blog Marijuana opponents like Kevin Sabet want Americans to think that the only people that want to reform marijuana laws are addicted dopers and greedy business types. Marijuana opponents always want to talk about how marijuana reform is bad for children. That’s going to be much...

Cannabis extract can have dramatic effect on brain cancer, says new research

Experts have shown that when certain parts of cannabis are used to treat cancer tumours alongside radio therapy treatment the growths can virtually disappear. The new research by specialists at St George’s, University of London, studied the treatment of brain cancer tumours in the laboratory and discovered that the...

New Marijuana Policy Course Offered at Oregon State University

  01/15/2015 CORVALLIS, Ore. – Students at Oregon State University will have a chance to help shape policies related to marijuana legalization in Oregon as part of a new public policy course taught this winter on the OSU campus in Corvallis. “Marijuana Policy in the 21st Century” is a...

Legal Marijuana Celebration & Fundraiser

  Compassionate Oregon will present our Patient’s Rights Bill and update everyone on bills in the upcoming Legislative session. All contributions will go to support our efforts in Salem to pass this bill and improve and protect the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program.  See you there! If you would like to...

Cannabinoids and Leukemia

New research from the University of London suggests chemicals in marijuana could be used to fight leukemia. Published online in Anticancer Research, researchers at the Department of Oncology at St. George’s, University of London studied six different cannabinoids and found each to have anti-cancer action on leukemia cells. Lead...

Tom Burns named OLCC’s director of marijuana programs

Tom Burns, the individual tasked with the implementation of Oregon’s HB 3460 to license and regulate medical marijuana facilities has been named OLCC’s Director of Marijuana Programs. “Tom has navigated these waters before on the medical side,” OLCC Executive Director Steven Marks said in a statement. “Tom will lead...