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Welcome to the About page for MERCY.    About this page ... MERCY - The Medical Cannabis Resource Center | Pioneering Common Sense Compassion via News, Information and other Resources on Medical Cannabis (Marijuana) in Oregon, across America and around the World. This page tells about we, the people, here at MERCY. Here you can view our mission statement, more about us, some notes about the issue. Click here for some history.     About Us ...  MERCY is a not-for-profit, grass roots organization founded by patients and other compassionate and concerned citizens in the area and dedicated to helping and advocating for those involved with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP). MERCY is based in the Salem area and staffed on a volunteer basis. (see Profiles, below) Click here to find out more about our history.   The purpose is to get medicine to patients in the short-term while working with them to establish their own independent sources. To this end they provide, among other things, ongoing education to clinics, individual physicians and other healthcare providers about the OMMP, cannabis as medicine and doctor rights in general. MERCY wants to be a strong patient advocate, which can manifest itself in a variety of ways. One of these has been maintaining lines of communication with other patient advocates and the OMMP director and workers, which we are trying to do. At the same time we attempt Doctor education and support programs, and Patient and Caregiver projects like learning to grow and different methods for consumption. These are especially important for the first time medical cannabis user as well as those unable to apply their medication. During the past year MERCY has assisted a number of people in getting into the OMMP as well as helping them find access to excess medicine. Through the above actions, MERCY intends to build a volunteer base for constant recruitment & administration of the organization for the future. Through marketing and communications we hope to coordinate with business and organizations to make a lasting, positive change in the community. The mission of the organization is to help people and change the laws so that action like this isn't necessary any more.   We advocate reasonable, fair and effective marijuana laws and policies, and strive to educate, register and empower voters to implement such policies.   Our philosophy is one of teaching people to fish, rather than being dependent upon others.   Lasting change will require that each citizen be active enough to register and effectively vote.  You, and only you, the people, can make it happen.   We will help in any way we can, but you have to tell us what you need.   Work with us to make this your "tool shed", or resource guide, to successful medical cannabis utilization and activism.   Click here to contact us. Or go here to find out more about our plans.   this page:  About Us  Our mission  the Org; What we do ... Need Help? See the OMMA pages. Want to Help? ACTION; What you can do.  Status Report  the Issue  About the WebSite

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( skip to End )  |   ( next )  |   MERCY Profiles ...    |     ( prev )  |   ( go to Top )  Secretary and team-member Jayce "Mom" Jones has passed on. Click here for more on her story. Co-founder and spiritual leader William "Sonny" Watkins remains grow-meister. He is no longer solely responsible for Salem area Patient Resources. Click here for more on his story. Click here for contact info. Patient Resource Co-ordinator Darin Watkins has joined us. Click here for contact info. Perry, a NORML person continues to volunteer and help out in any way he can. Contact him with: (1) general questions or speaking opportunities about MERCY or OMMP, (2) requests or comments about the Website or technical issues (database), (3) news items or (4) meeting or event facilitations. Click here for contact info. Co-founder and former Director Robert Gray is done serving his time for trying to help people. He is not directly involved with MERCY operations these days, needing to recover from the states punishment. Click here for more on his story. Click here for contact info.

( skip to End )  |   ( next )  |   Our mission ...    |     ( prev )  |   ( go to Top )  To establish mechanisms for ongoing information exchange and action centers concerning the OMMP.  Goals, Objectives, Strategies. The Center's goals are to provide information to patients, and all that are looking for information about the O.M.M.P. or medicinal marijuana in general. On a daily basis we try to assist people in educating their doctor (or finding a new one), clinics, caregivers, were to get medicine and how to keep your garden growing and clean - among other things. The mission of MERCY is to bring about change and establish safeguards for the future. The goal is the empowerment of the people through their votes and general activism. To get the people involved in this and all issues. A few of the immediate objectives are to inform & educate about the therapeutic benefits as well as the true medical facts about cannabis; support the rights of patients & doctors in the OMMP; promote a healthier environment through hemp; empower groups and actions that broadcast information & news about the harm, waste and abuse caused by can prohibition in general. The basic strategy will be to join and initiate events & actions; to research and broadcast news & info - to be media outlet for the movement! MERCY wants to be in a position to help or even launch initiative and like activities; to make available basic legal help for all cannabis users; to promote hemp for a healthier environment; to be a part of the community.

( skip to End )  |   ( next )  |   about the Org ...    |     ( prev )  |   ( go to Top )  MERCY is affiliated with Voter Power, the organization behind the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act in 1998 and supports a proposed expansion of the current law, Initiative 31 - also referred to as OMMA/2. Voter Power Voter Power is a grass roots organization dedicated to reforming laws governing cannabis. They helped defeat recriminalization and pass medical marijuana in Oregon in 1998. They also publish a weekly email full of information about cannabis and war policy news and generally look out for the interests of patients and doctors in the OMMP (Oregon Medical Marijuana Program). The Voter Power Foundation operates a Patient Resource Center in downtown Portland where multiple services are provided to patients seeking to use their medicine legally and they monitor and negotiate with government agencies involved with medical marijuana. Click here to go to the Voter Power home site. MERCY was originally identified as Capital City Voter Power when it formed in the spring of 2002.  The change in name does not reflect a shift in the philosophy or mean a break with Voter Power, in fact they think this will improve their ability to work with the organization.  The change came about for operational and accountability reasons and will be most helpful should the feds try something! The Mercy Center teams with Voter Power - to educate and activate the public as they provide medicine and support for the people of the OMMP.

( skip to End )  |   ( next )  |   Status report ...    |     ( prev )  |   ( go to Top )  The list of patients facilitated by MERCY is being reviewed. Apparently, MERCY is not meeting patient expectations (and vise-versa!) and things will need to be straightened out before we can move on. The Center in Salem is available by appointment only with medicine distributed on a case-by-case basis. Donations should be done by making checks -or- money orders payable to: (1) PGE (for the Electric) (2) City of Salem (for the Water) (3) <...> stay tuned for more details Meetings The group is attempting to operate Patient Resource Centers in the Salem & Washington County areas where multiple services can be provided to patients seeking to use their medicine legally. Volunteers at the Medical Cannabis Resource Center are needed to help maintain storefronts & booths in order to assist people with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program. Hosting public meetings has been the best way to serve, so we will try to keep those going. We are setting up a benefit in Portland for OMMA/2. We have opportunities to monitor and negotiate with government agencies involved with medical marijuana to follow up on. Actions Regular meetings will be attempted - Salem area meeting schedule is being defined and We are setting up public meeting in Washington County (Cornelius). The Medical Cannabis Resource Center needs to reach out to the community and hold regular, public monthly meetings at some location with handicapped access. As soon as we get these places & dates finalized, we'll update the Calendar and send a notice to the email list. Potential agenda items include financial reports, a report on members and information about the Patient Resource facilities themselves. We are trying to define and set members only meetings (as well) so we can gather & deliver input to the OMMA Advisory Board and take other action. Some of the ongoing projects discussed are helping patients find access to excess medicine, educating people about cannabis's therapeutic benefits, helping to fill out OMMP forms, answer questions and generally communicating with walk-in contacts through the office. It is a daily effort to provide information to the public so they can decide, or help loved ones decide, if cannabis is right for them and the steps they should take from there. Many thanks to the volunteers at the MERCY who make this possible. Patients and doctors in OMMP should be able to network and share information about their conditions and how to obtain & apply their medicine - growing tips, cooking recipes, which strains work best, etc. MERCY hopes to educate doctors and patients in general on their rights as well as the truth on the medical effects - beneficial and otherwise. We want to survey the areas we are trying to cover. We are setting up a benefit in Portland for OMMA/2. Stay tuned for details! Get on the email list, click > here <

( skip to End )  |   ( next )  |   About the Issue ...    |     ( prev )  |   ( go to Top )  The Issue is one of personal privacy and responsibility. It is about equal risk of arrest and treatment under the law, about reforming laws specifically written to subvert this basic American ideal. This is about mean and greedy people using YOUR government to set up a politically and religiously driven boondoggle, including a publicly funded propaganda machine to justify it all. The issue, for us, is about ending government waste and abuse. We intend to do this by ending cannabis prohibition and, thereby, all the nonsense about medical validity.  To release the sick, free the hemp and guarantee equal rights and access to the truth to even the least among us. We intend to free our brothers and sisters from the prison camps, to make hemp an option for Oregon's farmers and to end persecution of patients not so much due to their choice of medicine but because they are poor and powerless. Our current focus is on protecting and supporting patients in the OMMP (Oregon Medical Marijuana Program) and in the process educate our neighbors. Our goal is independence for our Patient Members in the short term and freedom for the rest by ending cannabis prohibition. Check us out, drop a line.  Be a part of the change as you help make it happen.

( skip to End )  |   ( next )  |   About the WebSite ...    |     ( prev )  |   ( go to Top )  The website is maintained by volunteers under the direction of Perry, Librarian, on loan from the OpdxNwoL - the Old pdxNORML Website and Online Library (pdxnorml.org/home).   This site is hosted by DPC - Drug Policy Central (drugpolicycentral.com) under the guidance of MAPinc technicians (Media Awareness Project, (www.mapinc.org).   Many thanks for their support!   Site Maps and Statistic reports (WebStats.htm) on the way. “If you don't like the content on the Internet, bring your shining light to make sure others will find something of value.   Caring and connectivity go together, and with this Godgiven capability you can no longer claim powerlessness to change the world.” - Frank Odasz, Director of Big Sky Telegraph, Western Montana College of the University of Montana

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