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The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act of 2010 - What's it all about?
Monday, July 7th, the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act (OCTA) was announced to the press. All our local TV affiliates covered the story on air and online (KATU, KOIN, KGW, KPTV, video at our YouTube channel) plus news radio KEX, Portland's Progressive Talk KPOJ, and local weekly paper Willamette Week.

The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act (OCTA) is going to tax and regulate the sales of small amounts of cannabis to adults in Oregon's liquor stores.

OCTA will raise money for the general fund in Oregon, while protecting kids by taking cannabis out of the black market, where nobody asks for ID and other drugs are for sale.

OCTA will also allow our farmers to grow a very profitable hemp crop and fund the promotion of Oregon hemp products. Our struggling timber communities would find new jobs in mills making hemp pressboard and other hemp building materials.

OCTA maintains criminal penalties for driving under the influence and makes selling to minors a Class B Felony.

OCTA allows citizens to grow and consume their own personal cannabis plants with no fees or taxes. However, to sell cannabis, one must apply for an OLCCC license and one may only sell to the state liquor stores.

OCTA creates severe penalties for removing cannabis from the state. OCTA allows the OLCCC to control pricing and sales limits to undermine the black market.

OCTA helps Oregon medical marijuana patients by providing an accessible source of medicine. OCTA eliminates the risk of growsite break-ins and medicine theft motivated by black market cannabis.

OCTA provides for scientific study of the medical and industrial uses of cannabis, for drug treatment programs, and for comprehensive abstinence-focused drug education for Oregon students.

OCTA needs 83,000 valid registered voters' signatures by July 2, 2010. Volunteer to help pass OCTA today! We need people from all over the state. Together we can finally end adult cannabis prohibition in Oregon!


right, get the loggers and their families on board with the only reasonable alternative to chopping down the old men of the forrest... reefer, which is an annual that dies every year. you can not hurt the reefer with harvest! but that tree is gone, folks.
forever.

I am not down with the OCTA saying driving under the influence of reefer is criminal. The federal Dept of Transportation says there is no negative influence from reefer on driving as I understand it. Whos kissing up to who, here?

dear SMB, i think it is a fine idea as proposed and the disagreement you may have of the DUI part shows how negative you are to common sense thinking. i am not casting aspersions upon you sir but common sense tells me ...
DO NOT DRIVE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ANY INTOXICANT!!!
i'm sorry sir but just because you or i may be able to maintain while stoned, others are not. and we have enough trouble with drunks on the roads. good luck with that plan oregon. all eyes will be on you.

OGT, clearly you are cool, honest opinion and some good intent. thanks for sharing.

marijuana does not damage the ability to drive. period. end.

I not only believe this, but can offer serious scientific proof such as someone of your obvious intelligence ought to have when I offer something so unexpected as I just did.

Please, even if you continue to disagree with me after we have tossed this back and forth some, let there be democracy!..please, do not take me for un-sincere. uh, you could throw in informed and agreeable in there, but sincere and informed will work as a minimum.

for openers, you have been severely propagandized in public school before you could defend your mind from the public school system. I was. You were, unless you were a very fortunate student in some nice private school. onwards

we need to establish this fact or you will continue to think I actually am a moron.

here is an example. go to marijuana news, us, and go through all the sections I put up on pregnant mommies smoking pot. you have been heavily propagandized and we both need science and fact to keep us free and safe.

I faithfully promise you what is in those news posts shocked me just as much as they did you. I just did not expect this stuff. WE HAVE PROPAGADIZED ON. WE HAVE BEEN LIED TO BY REAL JACKASSES WHO HAVE BEEN LYING TO ALL OF US. LET ME PROVE IT WITH HONEST SCIENCE.

I am trying to establish that I am not some pot-idiot. I have had the propaganda boolshit knocked out of my head the very painful, hard way. This is worth our short effort because lives are in the balance. Will we change anything big? let's find out!

ok? can we be cool? can we talk a hot subject?

I LOVE to knock around issues. I am not interested in "winning". let the truth do that. you gonna get a knickle if you "win"? nah. but alot of smart people read this site we will never meet and they will read what you think. I am sitting here with a broken back and three busted ribs from a driver who whacked me at over 100mph as I was turning off the freeway.

He was text messaging, according to the highway state petrol.

How, bush? how is it you think pot won't distract the low iq types in the first place? or make the rest of us who are supposed to be smart not distracted with seeing flying saucers?

well, there are several problems with the question. they need separated and analyzed.

oh, and this is not some kiddie "I am smarter than you thing" either. you were serious and there is a great issue here.

How bout the rest of yez? post up a opinion. you dont have to be right, I'll take care of that lol

There is No right or wrong on this sort of issue except the truth.

If I clang the hooter I stay inside the house and out of the car by choice! there is a proof there if you are willing to look for it.

I will put up some of my ideas on this subject. Hopefully no one here takes offence. We have known each other long enough to know that we would all probably get along well if we ever met.

OK, here goes. When I smoke and drive I drive slower than normal without knowing it. Sometimes I look down at the spedometer and am suprised. This is OK because I normally drive too fast. I am also very content when high and feel no need to rush to get anywhere. I also feel no need to speed, race, or take any other risks. Showing off or what have you.

I read somewhere that driving after smoking was no more dangerous than normal due to the reasons above. So, it sounds like I agree with SMB, but wait. If I were to drive a car around a course, or dirtbike around a track, I feel I could not do it as fast or as well if I were high as compared to not. So this means I am somehow impaired as far as reaction times and/or coordination. I also think that this effect would be more the higher I was.

Also if someone is in an accident and they were not 100% mentally or physically they will be looked upon as being at fault whether they actually were or not. This could be a 90 year old who can't see anymore, or a dumb ass teenager texting.

If you could get rid of cell phones while driving I bet the number of accident would be cut in half out here in CA. SMB is one example of this. I'm sure it's similiar in the UK.

i hope to find the federal DOT (dept of transportation) statements to the public on this. they were of the opinion that cannabis does Not impair negatively. I was shocked they were pro pot!

is there any impairment? I think there is! is it negative? well, if I am stoked I drive slower and more cautiously, too. pot isn't a downer. it's a hallucinogen near as I can tell. it is also some sort of enhancer. for example, smoke pot use less percocet because the big downer hits me harder for a given dose. I certainly drive less if I get stoned.

can I change my mind on an issue? well? why not? I'm a pot head, not a gun carrying lead head. I have fun batting this stuff around. you can pull my whiskers, I won't fall apart if we disagree so long as we don't deliberately hammer personally.


your friends are where you find us, and, if you are fortunate, when you need us, as well

doesn't mean I can't be just plain wrong somethimes. like I said, this is one of em where there probably is no right or wrong, or at least not an obvious one.

where pot gets into trouble with me is the enhancer effect. pot amplifies the effect of my opium based medicines. I totally gurarentee it does.

Alcohol is a hypnotic, narcotic, downer and our weed du jour Will enhance it. NOW I certainly do not approve pot.

Excellent you are right NOBODY should operate a motorized vechile in public under the influence of ANY intoxicant. Now as to the Oregon Cannabis Act why I love it, it's a sweet deal for the adults which it should be this way in all 50 states and that it should go as far to only allow valid citzens of said state to grow it, hopefully this will stop the influx of Big Business wanting to force the small grow ops. out of business.
Big Business needs to be stopped at all cost from ruining a good thing by making "Ma & Pa" grow ops top prioty and re-establish the family farm values.

Keep the quality a flowing and free for all by banning/boycotting Big Business in the Cannabis world, the consumer is the one with all the power in this.

Fact of business.