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East Oregonian
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Friday, July 8, 2016
Court overturns
conviction of man who
offered to buy ballots
Oregon Health Authority launches
campaign against underage pot use
ational use of the drug.
About 9 percent of eighth
graders and 19 percent
of 11th graders reported
using marijuana in 2015,
according to a survey by the
health authority.
The Oregon Liquor
Control
Commission
plans to conduct regular
inspections of retailers and
enforcement actions such
as using minor decoys
to make sure youth can’t
access marijuana in stores.
But that effort won’t start
until the agency takes over
regulation of recreational
marijuana at the end of the
year, said Mark Pettinger, a
liquor control spokesman.
About 13 inspectors are
assigned to that task so far,
Pettinger said.
The health authority,
which regulates recreational
marijuana on a temporary
basis, now only responds
to
complaints
related
to dispensaries selling
recreational marijuana to
underage customers, said
Andre Ourso, manager of
the state’s medical mari-
juana program.
Violators face civil
penalties,
which
can
include revocation of their
dispensary registration, he
said.
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By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
The Oregon Health
Authority has launched a
mass media blitz aimed
at discouraging underage
youth from using marijuana.
The “Stay True to You”
campaign uses a website,
social media outreach,
streaming video, posters
and audio spots to relate
some of the negative effects
of underage use of the drug.
Research shows habitual
marijuana use by adoles-
cents and young adults is
associated with impaired
memory and academic
achievement, according to
the health authority.
The Legislature gave the
health authority nearly $4
million to develop and pilot
the campaign for 12 months
in the Portland metro
area and in rural Jackson
and Josephine counties
in
Southern
Oregon.
Lawmakers could then
decide whether to expand
the campaign statewide.
“We
did
extensive
focus group testing with
Oregon youth and young
adults to help develop the
creative messaging for
the campaign,” said Kati
Moseley, policy specialist
with Oregon Health Author-
ity’s Public Health Divi-
sion. “Among the things we
learned was Oregon youth
and young adults spend a lot
Oregon Health Authority
One of the ads from the Oregon Health Authority’s
campaign to prevent underage marijuana use.
of time on social and digital
media and like to receive
information that way. The
campaign is heavily geared
toward that.”
Most of the advertising
will appear in digital
and streaming video on
YouTube and other plat-
forms. Advertising also will
be placed in movie theaters,
social media blasts with the
hash tag #StayTrueOregon,
a website, radio broadcasts
and outreach to youth orga-
nizations.
“The
Centers
for
Disease Control recognizes
Oficer placed on probation
for jailhouse assault
EUGENE (AP) — A Eugene
police oficer who roughed up a
suspect at the Lane County Jail
two years ago has been placed on
probation.
The Register-Guard reports John
Sharlow was sentenced Thursday by
the same judge who found him guilty
last month of misdemeanor assault
and oficial misconduct.
In an incident caught on
surveillance video, Sharlow grabbed
a handcuffed man around the neck
and pulled him from a bench to the
concrete loor.
Sharlow apologized at sentencing,
saying he realizes his interaction
mass media campaigns as
a recognized intervention
to change attitudes and
behavior, so we do know
this kind of campaign can
have an effect,” Moseley
said. “It works best when
supported by other poli-
cies.”
One such policy is state
law prohibiting the use of
marijuana in public areas,
she said.
The campaign is the
irst focused effort toward
preventing youth from
using marijuana, one year
after legalization of recre-
with the suspect was “completely
unprofessional.”
Sharlow faces 60 days in jail if
he fails to complete the terms of his
two years on probation. He was also
ined $500 and ordered to pay $200
restitution to the victim.
Son of ex-Oregon
governor admits having
beer before crash
PORTLAND (AP) — Court
records show the 18-year-old son of
former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber
admitted drinking a beer before
crashing his car along the Oregon
Coast.
The Oregonian/OregonLive
reports a police afidavit says Logan
Kitzhaber told a paramedic he had a
beer before heading toward Lincoln
City. He also reported not knowing
the cause of the Monday crash.
It’s unclear exactly when he
consumed the beer, and authorities
say they’re still working to determine
whether Kitzhaber will face charges.
Kitzhaber had been driving
a Toyota Prius when authorities
say he crossed the center line on
Highway 101 and sideswiped a
motorhome, causing it to roll onto
its side.
Kitzhaber was treated at a hospital
for his injuries and released. The two
occupants of the motorhome were
hospitalized and are expected to
survive.
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attention. A Bend police
oficer visited the parking
lot and noticed no suspi-
cious activity.
A special agent with
the Oregon Department
of Justice traced the post
Hirschman and interviewed
him. Hirschman admitted
writing the ad, but said
he was “gooing around,”
and didn’t attempt to buy
any ballots, according to a
summary of facts contained
in Thursday’s opinion.
Hirschman
testiied
at his 2013 non-jury trial
that a reasonable person
wouldn’t believe he was
making a serious offer. He
said he wished his post had
speciied it was satire, but
“obviously it’s not a good
joke if you put that at the
end.”
Judge A. Michael Adler
convicted Hirschman on
the misdemeanor charge of
offering to purchase ballots.
He ined the man $200 and
sentenced him to 40 hours
of community service.
Hirschman, 42, does not
have a listed phone number
and could not immediately
be reached for comment.
Two lawyers who have
represented him did not
return messages.
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PORTLAND — The
Oregon Court of Appeals
on Thursday overturned the
misdemeanor conviction of
a self-described “internet
troll”
who
satirically
offered to buy blank
election ballots before an
election.
The court said the
law under which Aaron
Hirschman was convicted
violated his right to expres-
sion.
“No matter how much
one might wish to reduce
cynicism about elections
(and any justiications for
that cynicism), the legis-
lature cannot accomplish
that goal by suppressing
expression because of
the ‘supposed harm that
the message itself might
be presumed to cause to
the hearer or to society,”’
Chief Judge Erika Hadlock
wrote.
The case dates back
to the general election
in November 2010. In a
political forum on Craig-
slist, Aaron Hirschman
wrote in a post containing
spelling and grammatical
errors that registered voters
could make a “quick and
easy $20” by bringing their
ballots to a parking lot in
downtown Bend.
“All you need to do is
bring your UNFILLED
clean voting ballot and let
us ill it out then you sign,
and we hand it to the volun-
teer in the voting booth. Its
that simple!”
Craigslist
quickly
deleted the post, but it was
up long enough to attract
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