Case Name: Anthony TAYLOR and Cheryl MacDonald, Petitioners, v. Phil KEISLING, Respondent
Court: Oregon Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1991-11-07
Citations: 312 Or. 236
Docket Number: SC S38567
Parties: Anthony TAYLOR and Cheryl MacDonald, Petitioners, v. Phil KEISLING, Respondent.
Judges: PER CURIAM
Reporter: Oregon Reports
Volume: 312
Pages: 236–238

Head Matter:
Submitted on the record October 21,
ballot title certified November 7, 1991
Anthony TAYLOR and Cheryl MacDonald, Petitioners, v. Phil KEISLING, Respondent.
(SC S38567)
819 P2d 1395
Anthony Taylor, petitioner, filed the petition pro se for petitioners.
Richard D. Wasserman, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, waived appearance for respondent.
PER CURIAM

Opinion:
PER CURIAM
In this original proceeding, petitioners challenge the ballot title for a proposed initiative measure. Petitioners are electors who timely submitted written comments on the Attorney General's draft ballot title. Therefore, they are entitled to petition this court seeking a different title. ORS 250.085(2).
The Attorney General certified this ballot title to the Secretary of State:
"PERMITS MARIJUANA USE TO TREAT MEDICAL CONDITIONS; CREATES STATE BOARD
"QUESTION: Shall State permit use of marijuana to treat medical conditions, create state board to research therapeutic marijuana use?
"SUMMARY: Creates state board with members aware of medical uses of marijuana. Board to study those uses, recommend changes to statutes and rules needed to reinstate medical uses of marijuana. State must apply immediately to federal government for marijuana for therapeutic use. Marijuana must be provided at cost to pharmacies, distributed to patients upon doctor's request to board. Pending receipt of marijuana from federal government, amends state law to allow ultimate users to manufacture marijuana for therapeutic use of selves, household members or household animals."
Petitioners assert that, "[i]n light of the pharmacological history of marijuana and the previous Oregon statute allowing lawful prescription, the Ballot Title would more accurately reflect the overall nature of the prospective petition by substituting the word RESTORES for the word PERMITS in the current Ballot Title." We have considered petitioners' arguments but conclude that the ballot title certified by the Attorney General complies substantially with the requirements of ORS 250.035(l)(a) and (b). ORS 250.085(4).
Ballot title certified.
This decision shall become effective in accordance with ORAP 11.30(10).