Posted by Johnny Green

Ellen Rosenblum Defeats Anti-Marijuana Candidate Dwight Holton To Become Next Oregon Attorney General

It wasn’t that long ago that the 2012 Oregon attorney general race was still in it’s infancy. Dwight Holton and Ellen Rosenblum had announced their candidacies for the Democratic Primary, and yet again the Oregon GOP failed to field a candidate. Admittedly, I didn’t know much about Ellen Rosenblum at the time, but I knew exactly who Dwight Holton was.

Dwight Holton is one of the biggest anti-medical marijuana crusaders on the planet. During Holton’s two years as a federal prosecutor in Oregon, he lead a series of raids on medical marijuana providers in Southern Oregon Oregon, which deprived hundreds of legal patients of their medicine. Dwight Holton also sent harassing letters to law abiding Oregon collective owners. I personally read several of these letters from multiple collective owners who I know for a fact were following Oregon law.

As a medical marijuana patient in Oregon, I look at Dwight Holton as the ‘boogey man’ who is out to get people like me, simply because of the legal medicine I choose to consume. This is a feeling that is shared by the entire Oregon medical marijuana community, which is large. The state lists roughly 55,000 patients, but that doesn’t include caretakers, growers, and friends and family members of the program participants, as well as sympathetic supporters that have no direct ties to the program. When you add up all of those groups, and consider how we feel about Dwight Holton, it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone why he lost today at the ballot box…but more of that later.