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“The co-chairs’ intent is
to change that residency re-
quirement, but they also un-
derstand we can’t ignore it,”
said commission Chairman
Rob Patridge. “They are wor-
ried about people losing their
place in line for the applica-
tion process. The compromise
in this draft is if Legislature
acts they won’t lose their
place in line.”
The provision is one of a
series of temporary rules the
commission adopted Thurs-
day that address license eligi-
bility requirements, grow siz-
es, security requirements and
other aspects of recreational
marijuana.
The new rules take ef-
fect Jan. 1 and must be re-
placed with permanent rules
by the end of June.
The Oregon Legislature
earlier this year barred nonres-
idents from growing or selling
recreational marijuana. Grow-
ers, processors, wholesalers
and retailors are required to
have Oregon residency for at
least two years.
Critics of the restriction
said the statute could hamper
development of the industry
and may be unconstitutional.
The co-chairs of a joint
legislative committee on im-
plementing legalized marijua-
na wrote in an Oct. 9 letter to
the commission that they want
to pass legislation in 2016 to
lift that restriction.
“Our own thinking on
these issues has evolved over
time,” the letter stated. “We
now believe that broad resi-
dency requirements and sig-
ni¿cant limits on outside in-
vestment could do more harm
than good.”
The letter was signed by
Sen. Ginny Burdick, Sen. Ted
Ferrioli, Rep. Ann Lininger
and Rep. Carl Wilson.
The temporary rules an-
swered some but not all of the
concerns of both industry and
public safety. For instance, the
rules allow retailers to deliver
up to $1,000 of marijuana to
primary residences.
Meanwhile, retailers are
prohibited from selling both
recreational and medical mar-
ijuana out of the same retail
location because different
agencies regulate each type.
Grow operations are lim-
ited to 10,000 square feet in-
doors and 40,000 square feet
outdoors, but local govern-
ments may request a variance
from the commission to allow
a larger or smaller grow oper-
ation.
“Local government be-
yond that could come to com-
mission with a plan,” Patridge
said. “I think that would al-
leviate some of the grower
gripes about having the op-
portunity to grow a larger pro-
duction.”
The rules also trigger a
mandatory 30-day license
suspension for selling mari-
juana to minors and require
stringent security measures
such as video surveillance.
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numerous other surgeries and
treatments, however.
Even after being diagnosed
cancer-free, she stays on top
of preventative measures and
screenings to this day.
“I try to do everything I
need to do, so if it comes back,
we catch it early,” she said.
In 1997, while working as
a lobbyist for the Montana Li-
brary Association, Fitzpatrick
was asked to testify on two
state bills related to cancer.
She did so as a private individ-
ual. From there, she joined the
American Cancer Society and
switched to the American Can-
cer Network after its creation
in 2001.
Since becoming involved,
she said, “I have been working
actively on changing public
policy, changing legislation
and protecting the lives of
people and trying to help them
live.”
Fitzpatrick moved to Sea-
side in 2009 after retiring and
went to the Cancer Action
Network’s headquarters in
Portland to resume her work in
Oregon. She is active in Salem
and in Washington, D.C.
Education and
advocacy
About four years ago,
Fitzpatrick became the lead
ambassador from Oregon for
the Cancer Action Network, a
nonpartisan liaison organiza-
tion to the American Cancer
Society. Funds received by the
network are not tax deductible,
which allows the group to ad-
vocate on different issues and
lobby for legislation. The net-
work does not endorse politi-
cal candidates but occasionally
conducts surveys on cancer is-
sues with candidates and then
publicizes responses on the or-
ganization’s website.
The group stays neutral
because the affects of cancer
transcend political party, Fitz-
patrick said, adding cancer
“doesn’t care if you’re Re-
publican or Democrat, rich or
poor, young or old. It will at-
tack anyone at any age.”
Educating the public and
of¿cials is a big part of her
work. As a former librarian
and college professor, she
¿rmly believes information is
power.
“I saw too many people that
didn’t understand the journey
and were terri¿ed they didn’t
understand there were things
that could be done, that we can
take charge of our lives,” she
said.
She wants people to have a
healthy, not debilitating, fear
of cancer — a fear that moti-
vates them to get screened reg-
ularly and to seek treatment as
early as possible.
“It’s when you don’t act on
it, and you could’ve acted on
it, that’s when you have the re-
grets,” Fitzpatrick said.
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‘It’s when you don’t act on
it, and you could’ve acted
on it, that’s when you have
the regrets.’
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cancer research advocate
perience empower her as an
advocate, but she also experi-
enced the death of her father to
lung cancer when she was 17.
She said it has inspired her
work. “I was determined peo-
ple were not going to die any-
more of this horrible disease
and rob children of their par-
ents and parents of their chil-
dren,” she said.
Areas of focus
During the network’s an-
nual leadership summit and
lobby day in Washington, D.C,
more than 700 volunteers from
across the country petitioned
their legislators on three key
issues.
First, the volunteers lob-
bied for Congress to appropri-
ate $6 billion over the next two
years to the National Institutes
of Health, with $1 billion go-
ing speci¿cally to the National
Cancer Institute for cancer re-
search.
“I’m alive because of re-
search that happened 30 years
ago,” Fitzpatrick said. “There
is a lot of research that is lit-
erally right on the cusp and it
may not be funded. We’re real-
ly sure so much could happen
if we could get that money to
NCI and NIH.”
During this year’s leader-
ship summit, she said, they
heard from scientists who ex-
pressed concern about the dif-
¿culty in drawing young peo-
ple to the profession, and also
having young scientists move
to other countries, because of a
lack of funding in the U.S.
Secondly, the lobbyists
asked for support for the Re-
moving Barriers to Colorec-
tal Cancer Screening Act of
2015. The legislation would
amend the Social Security Act
to waive coinsurance under
Medicare for colorectal cancer
screening tests, regardless of
whether therapeutic interven-
tion is required during screen-
ing.
Currently, there is a loop-
hole in Medicare, Fitzpatrick
said. Screenings are free, but if
doctors detect and remove pol-
yps — or abnormal growths
— as a result of the test, the
procedure then gets billed as
diagnostic, which burdens pa-
tients with copayments and
coinsurance.
Fitzpatrick said she hopes
¿xing the loophole will prompt
more people to be screened,
especially since colon cancer
is preventable.
Lastly, the volunteers fo-
cused on promoting the Palli-
ative Care and Hospice Educa-
tion and Training Act.
Palliative care treats the
symptoms, side effects and
emotional issues experienced
by patients with serious ill-
nesses and their caregivers
in order to give them the best
possible quality of life. Pallia-
tive care is given alongside cu-
rative care, and is not hospice
— a distinction Fitzpatrick
said is important to make.
“It could turn into hospice
care, but we would prefer it
didn’t,” she said. The purpose
of palliative care “is to give
people back their lives, to
make them enjoy whatever it
is they enjoyed before, wheth-
er it’s sitting and knitting,
painting, running marathons,
teaching.”
Fitzpatrick
emphasized
caregivers because she be-
lieves the disease sometimes
can take an even greater toll on
them, as she saw through her
own experience.
“I was so busy doing treat-
ments, ¿ghting for my life.
They had to watch it, and they
were helpless,” she said of her
family.
The legislation would
amend the Public Health Ser-
vice Act to increase the num-
ber of palliative care faculty at
medical and nursing schools
to promote education and
research on the topic and to
support the development of
careers in academic palliative
medicine. The bill also would
set up grants and fellowships
for doctors and nurses to study
the topic.
Fitzpatrick said the Oregon
delegation was supportive of
the legislation. Each advocate
focuses on the representatives
from his or her congressional
districts and state, but Fitzpat-
rick said “hearing from my
colleagues through the coun-
try, it sounds like we made a
lot of progress this time.”
“We hope when these
things come up, they will vote
in support,” she said. “They
need to know the story of can-
cer, the face of cancer. They
have to understand this is hu-
man beings — that it’s chil-
dren, that it’s grandmas, that
it’s young people.”
The Cancer Action Net-
work group in Oregon now is
planning for a research forum
on palliative care in Novem-
ber. Additionally, they are
looking ahead to what they
want to do next legislative ses-
sion, Fitzpatrick said.
“There are so many differ-
ent things we need to work
on in Oregon that just would
make people’s lives better,”
she said.
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