FIVE MEASURES MAKE BALLOT

(SALEM, OR) -- Oregon voters will decide two marijuana-related ballot
measures with very different approaches to use of the drug. One measure to
allow medical use of marijuana to ease nausea and increase patients'
appetites has qualified with enough signatures to get onto the November
ballot. At odds with it is a measure referred by state lawmakers to make
possessing small amounts of marijuana a crime again. Others ballot measures
would allow adults who were adopted to see their birth certificates,
prevent unions from spending money from payroll-deductions on political
activities, and allow vote by mail in all elections.

Officials are still counting signatures for a half-dozen other measures.

Checked-by: Mike Gogulski