Medford Mail Tribune

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 12:11am on Monday, January 25th, 2010

Medical pot is a growing presence in Medford, the Mail Tribune reported on January 24, 2010:

"Next to the federal courthouse in downtown Medford, medical marijuana patients pass in and out of a nondescript building where cannabis is smoked, grown and exchanged between patients.

In the lobby, something that looks like driftwood sits on a desk. It's the stump from a massive marijuana plant that produced 16 pounds of dried bud in a growing climate that many growers say rivals Northern California.

It's no accident that Southern Oregon NORML moved into these offices, where its volunteers have windows that overlook the courthouse parking lot used by judges and sheriff's deputies unloading prisoners for trials.

"The fact that the federal courthouse was here is the icing on the cake," said Mel Barniskis, information manager.

SO NORML is one of eight businesses that have sprung up in the Rogue Valley in the past two years to help patients with the complicated process of getting a medical marijuana card and connecting with a grower who can provide the medication allowed under the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act of 1998. In 2006, Senate Bill 1085 increased the number of plants and quantity of dried marijuana a patient could possess to six mature plants, 18 immature seedlings and 24 ounces of usable cannabis."

The full story:
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100124/NEWS/1240314