Oh, this is great! About OLCC, now they have a whole new fiefdom. "I think they demonstrate exactly what I've been saying for years, which is this is an agency that is 100 percent unaccountable," said Sen. Jason Atkinson, R-Central Point, an outspoken critic of OLCC's management. "They'll do whatever it takes to protect their fiefdom." http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/05/documents_show_strains_between Back in the day I worked in the Portland area, the OLCC was one of my accounts. Crooked as a dog's hind leg. A pot distributors license is to cost one thousand dollars. After maybe one year I imagine the fee to get a decision to grant a license will cost a hell of a lot more than the puny 1k fee.
40 percent tax on marijuana sales? Fairview hopes to dissuade sellers after Oregon makes cannabis legal http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2014/11/40_percent_tax_on_marijuana_sa.html#incart_river
This whole measure is full of pot holes. SECTION 41. Applicability to interstate and foreign commerce. Sections 31 to 44 of this Act do not apply to commerce with foreign nations or commerce with the several states, except in so far as the same may be permitted under the Constitution and laws of the United States. SECTION 42. State has exclusive right to tax marijuana. No county or city of this state shall impose any fee or tax, including occupation taxes, privilege taxes and inspection fees, in connection with the purchase, sale, production, processing, transportation, and delivery of marijuana items. SECTION 45. Importing and exporting marijuana prohibited. (1) Marijuana items may not be imported into this state or exported from this state by any licensee or licensee representative. Hard to see how 41 and 45 are compatible.
More section that will be trouble. SECTION 58. Marijuana laws supersede and repeal inconsistent charters and ordinances. Sections 3 to 70 of this Act, designed to operate uniformly throughout the state, shall be paramount and superior to and shall fully replace and supersede any and all municipal charter enactments or local ordinances inconsistent with it. Such charters and ordinances hereby are repealed. I guess this will appeal all those laws by cities putting a sales tax on pot. I bet it doesn't. Another. Does this mean if a City or County want to ban Pot, their must hold an election? I bet that doesn't work. SECTION 60. Petition and election for local option. (1) The governing body of a city or a county, when a petition is filed as provided in this section, shall order an election on the question whether the operation of licensed premises shall be prohibited in the city or county.
Saying it would kill poverty down here may have been hyperbolic, but it would create lots of jobs, and free the police to go after a much bigger problem: meth.
Oregon seems hell bent on financing health, education, civil services, libraries etc..exclusively from gambling, tobacco, gasoline, pot and property tax. Tourists can still come through to fish, shop, eic without contributing anything as we have no sales tax. I thought they had until July 15 2015 to vote on commercial laws for distribution? T
