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Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts 2
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Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts March 28, 2011 - tokeofthetown.com
Organizers of a new Oregon state marijuana legalization initiative campaign, Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012 (OCTA 2012), are kicking off their petition drive and opening a new office. The Oregon Secretary of State's Election Division just announced the approval of the petition, Initiative Number 9, for circulation and signature gathering on March 24.
Initiative organizers will have until July 7, 2012 to gather 90,000 registered Oregon voters' signatures to qualify for the November 6, 2012 ballot.
Petitioners rallied at their new office in Portland starting at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, March 28 and held a news conference at 10 a.m. The state campaign committee is working to achieve ballot status in three ways: hiring paid petitioners, organizing volunteer petitioners and soliciting Oregon registered voters' signatures online.
The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act of 2012 would regulate the legal sale of marijuana to adults through state-licensed stores, allow adults to grow their own, license Oregon farmers to grow marijuana for state-licensed stores and allow unlicensed Oregon farmers to grow cannabis hemp for fuel, fiber and food.
OCTA 2012 will raise $140 million a year by taxing commercial cannabis sales to adults 21 years of age and older, and save an estimated $61.5 million as law enforcement, corrections and judicial attention can focus on violent crimes and theft.
Initiative organizers estimate that this will amount to $200 million a year more funding for state government. Of those proceeds, 90 percent will go into the state general fund, seven percent will go to drug treatment programs, and one percent each for drug education in public schools and two new state commissions to promote hemp biofuel and hemp fiber and food.
OCTA 2012 is also announcing a series of three benefit concerts featuring reggae music legends, Toots & The Maytals on Independence Day weekend. Toots & The Maytals will headline three shows, starting at the Lane County Fairgrounds in Eugene on Saturday, July 2, then the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond on Sunday, July 3, and culminating at the Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater in Portland on Monday, July 4.
Toots & The Maytals' first Jamaican hit recortd, "Do The Reggae" from 1966, named the new music genre and their music was featured in the 1972 cult movie classic, The Harder They Come. Toots has recorded with many other headliners, and his recent album, True Love, features duets with Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Ben Harper, No Doubt and more.
True Love won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album of 2005. Toots & The Maytals hold the current record for #1 hits in Jamaica, with a total of 31.
On the web: Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012 (OCTA 2012)
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: veggie]
#14198589 - 03/28/11 04:04 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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veggie said: initiative organizers estimate that this will amount to $200 million a year more funding for state government. Of those proceeds, 90 percent will go into the state general fund, seven percent will go to drug treatment programs, and one percent each for drug education in public schools and two new state commissions to promote hemp biofuel and hemp fiber and food.
 Let's go Oregon!
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: bryguy27007]
#14198664 - 03/28/11 04:19 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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isnt washington trying to legalize also? with califoria the whole west coast would be on our side! woot
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: Picoloco]
#14198927 - 03/28/11 05:14 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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If I were a betting man, I'd place a huge amount of cash on cannabis being legal somewhere in 2012. I don't know where, but one of these states will pull through for us. California let us all down so it's time for another state to step up to the plate.
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: SuperD]
#14199991 - 03/28/11 08:21 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Honestly, I'd rather weed stay illegal. Keep it out of the hands of greedy corporations.
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: demon66] 1
#14200094 - 03/28/11 08:34 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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demon66 said: Honestly, I'd rather weed stay illegal. Keep it out of the hands of greedy corporations.
Just wait until you're arrested. You won't be saying that.
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: demon66] 2
#14200125 - 03/28/11 08:38 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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demon66 said: Honestly, I'd rather weed stay illegal. Keep it out of the hands of greedy corporations.
You've heard of microbrewed beer, right? Apply that same concept to cannabis when it becomes legal. There will be the budweiser of the cannabis industry and there will also be the microgroweries. Keeping it illegal makes no sense whatsoever, sorry.
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: demon66]
#14200137 - 03/28/11 08:40 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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How does one go about setting one of this things up?
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: demon66]
#14200217 - 03/28/11 08:49 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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demon66 said: Honestly, I'd rather weed stay illegal. Keep it out of the hands of greedy corporations.
...and, instead, let's leave it in the hands of just-as-greedy drug cartels.
 You better just be trollin.
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: Remix]
#14202802 - 03/29/11 09:21 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm from the SF Bay area. There is a lot of anti legalization sentiment going on around here. Most people are glad prop 19 did not pass, would have turned cannabis right over to philip morris, RJ Reynolds and others of the like. Here weed is the lowest police priority, often smoked in public view. There is already a glut of weed anyway. So many people are growing it.
I personally know several people who voted against legalization, or didn't vote at all, and yes they enjoy cannabis.
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: veggie]
#14202877 - 03/29/11 09:42 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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GO 503..........
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: cyanara]
#14203510 - 03/29/11 12:34 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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would have turned cannabis right over to philip morris, RJ Reynolds and others of the like.
that doesn't mean those would be the only sources to get it and that you wouldn't be able to get it from the same places you do now.
also if it was top quality weed i wouldn't see the problem of being it from them just because they are large companies. it's wierd people are like omg corporate evil, yet im sure dealers and people who grow weed don't have money in mind.
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: veggie]
#14203600 - 03/29/11 12:52 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Go Oregon!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: demon66]
#14203882 - 03/29/11 01:56 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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demon66 said: I'm from the SF Bay area. There is a lot of anti legalization sentiment going on around here. Most people are glad prop 19 did not pass, would have turned cannabis right over to philip morris, RJ Reynolds and others of the like. Here weed is the lowest police priority, often smoked in public view. There is already a glut of weed anyway. So many people are growing it.
I personally know several people who voted against legalization, or didn't vote at all, and yes they enjoy cannabis.
Why should big corporations be prohibited from growing a plant? It's a gift from nature that should be available to every person on the planet to use however they please!
Lets hope the citizens of Oregon are not greedy assholes like the folks in Humbolt Co...
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: bigmike7104]
#14203889 - 03/29/11 01:58 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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would have turned cannabis right over to philip morris, RJ Reynolds and others of the like.
that doesn't mean those would be the only sources to get it and that you wouldn't be able to get it from the same places you do now.
also if it was top quality weed i wouldn't see the problem of being it from them just because they are large companies. it's wierd people are like omg corporate evil, yet im sure dealers and people who grow weed don't have money in mind.
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: demon66]
#14203962 - 03/29/11 02:15 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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demon66 said: Honestly, I'd rather weed stay illegal. Keep it out of the hands of greedy corporations.
Keeping it illegal isnt going to make them go away, so whats the point of not giving a helping hand for the honest folk out there that arent part of the corps? This could stimulate jobs for reg citizens or additional income for people stuck in a dead end 9 to 5 that the corps created. Oh, did I forget about PUTTING US IN FUCKING JAIL FOR NOTHING!!!!! To Oregon...HOORAY! This is almost like the one guy I heard back when prop 19 was going on and all he could say is "Its not good enough". WTF! Did you learn how to ride a bike on the first try? No. You sure worked on trying i bet. You will still be learning when you 50. Until you have enough money to buy them out and shut them down, they will buy YOU out and shut you down!
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: DoDahDay]
#14204008 - 03/29/11 02:23 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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PUTTING US IN FUCKING JAIL FOR NOTHING!!!!! To Oregon...HOORAY!
to be fair there is decriminalization, but it's still a screwy stance to take for someone who is pro-pot.
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: bigmike7104]
#14204131 - 03/29/11 02:47 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Crossing my fingers for Oregon. May you be the snowball who starts a worldwide avalanche.
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: demon66] 2
#14204181 - 03/29/11 02:56 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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demon66 said: Honestly, I'd rather weed stay illegal. Keep it out of the hands of greedy corporations.
If I hear any more repugnant bullshit like this, I think I may vomit!
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Re: Oregon Marijuana Legalization Petition Approved; Drive Starts [Re: SuperD]
#14204928 - 03/29/11 05:31 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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demon66 said: Honestly, I'd rather weed stay illegal. Keep it out of the hands of greedy corporations.
You've heard of microbrewed beer, right? Apply that same concept to cannabis when it becomes legal. There will be the budweiser of the cannabis industry and there will also be the microgroweries. Keeping it illegal makes no sense whatsoever, sorry.
Yeah these, anti-legalization arguments are baseless and tired. I have a feeling we will at least get it on the ballot here. We Oregonians are so ready for it; I'd be proud if it were my state to start the dominoes falling.
Also, you don't have to rely on someone else to grown your weed for you. It says - pretty explicitly - that adults will be able to grow their own. So basically, you're in favor of one of the most oppressive policies this country has seen just because you're too lazy/inept to grow your own grass.
I'm anticipating that the market will be so saturated with free/dirt cheap home-grown weed (which we're doing already, and which will BLOW UP once its legal) that there won't even be a market for shitty, corporate schwag.
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