Oregon legalizes recreational marijuana as campaign spreads

Starting July 1, it will be legal for adults 21 or older to possess and use recreational marijuana in Oregon.

Legal growing for a full retail rollout for recreational marijuana isn’t expected to begin until next year.

There are a lot of details that need to be addressed, and the state has to get them right.

In the old Williams Grange, expectations of pot prosperity drew about 75 people to the most recent growers’ guild meeting, filling the hall.

Another bill is on its way to the governor that would allow cities which voted against legalized marijuana to prohibit retail sales.

Residents can grow up to 4 plants per residence, as long as they are out of public view.

Transporting marijuana across state borders, even to neighboring Washington, where recreational use is legal, remains prohibited. Cannabrand, a cannabis-branding agency that’s dedicated to the marketing of cannabis products and services, has been working to change the face of recreational marijuana consumption since 2014. It would also allow banks previously unwilling to open accounts for commercial marijuana producers and processors who want to deposit money a way to allow such activity.

The Oregon Health Authority, which oversees medical dispensaries, sent reminders of this earlier this week. Smoking it in public is illegal, but Portland police are discouraging residents from calling 911 to report smokers.

Drive under the influence of marijuana. Here’s your guide to the new recreational marijuana laws, with a map detailing the location of every dispensary in Eugene-Springfield.

Marijuana will be taxed at the point of sale at $35 per ounce, and the funds will be set aside for education and law enforcement programmes.

Portland’s chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws – a nonprofit lobbyist group – sponsored the free bridge pot party as a way around the temporary limit on recreational sales.

Four states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana, and 23 states allow some form of access to medical marijuana.

That situation “attracts criminal activity and creates substantial public safety risks” and “reduces transparency in accounting across the industry and makes it hard for the state to implement an effective regulatory regime that ensures compliance with accounting, employment, tax and other state laws”, the resolution states.

“Yes, legalization will bring jobs and revenue, but the most important thing is the freedom to be yourself, without being criminalized by the government”.