Proud to live in oregon! This is finally a way to get our poor state out of debt, and grow for the masses in Oregon with love! This is an amazing initiative that I would sign 100x over!
The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012 is an initiative petition campaign to regulate marijuana and restore hemp. Regulating marijuana will help wipe out crime, just as ending alcohol prohibition and regulating that market has protected society. Drug cartels and gangs will lose most of their funding when we regulate marijuana and take the criminal element out this market. Restoring hemp, made from the seeds and stems of the marijuana plant for fuel, fiber and food, will put Oregon on the cutting edge of exciting new sustainable green industries and create untold multitudes of new jobs.
This groundbreaking legislation will, when it is passed, 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. OCTA2012 will raise an estimated $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. We estimate this will amount to $200 million a year more funding for state government. Ninety percent of the proceeds will go into the state general fund, 7% for drug treatment programs, one percent each for drug education in public schools, and two new state commissions to promote hemp biofuel, hemp fiber and food.
Wipe out crime. Lower alcohol abuse and other drug abuse by regulating legal adult access to a safer alternative, marijuana. Increase public safety. Restore respect for the law and let scarce resources be used to fight real crimes. Create environmentally sustainable jobs.
Initiative Petition #9 for the General Election - November 6, 2012
The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012 is an initiative petition campaign to regulate marijuana and restore hemp. Regulating marijuana will help wipe out crime, just as ending alcohol prohibition and regulating that market has protected society. Drug cartels and gangs will lose most of their funding when we regulate marijuana and take the criminal element out this market. Restoring hemp, made from the seeds and stems of the marijuana plant for fuel, fiber and food, will put Oregon on the cutting edge of exciting new sustainable green industries and create untold multitudes of new jobs.
This groundbreaking legislation will, when it is passed, 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. OCTA2012 will raise an estimated $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. We estimate this will amount to $200 million a year more funding for state government. Ninety percent of the proceeds will go into the state general fund, 7% for drug treatment programs, one percent each for drug education in public schools, and two new state commissions to promote hemp biofuel, hemp fiber and food.
Wipe out crime. Lower alcohol abuse and other drug abuse by regulating legal adult access to a safer alternative, marijuana. Increase public safety. Restore respect for the law and let scarce resources be used to fight real crimes. Create environmentally sustainable jobs.
Much love, SL
