[vStagger Leev]

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!

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.

[EastFortRock]

Where do I sign the petition?

[vStagger Leev]

Sign that shit!

https://www.cannabistaxact.org/sign-petition

Is Paul Stanford (THCF) behind this initiative? Martinez at ORNORML? Voter Power? OGF?

Just curious.

[vStagger Leev]

Originally Posted by CC_2U

Is Paul Stanford (THCF) behind this initiative? Martinez at ORNORML? Voter Power? OGF?

Just curious.

I was actually trying to find some info on that as well and didnt find much, you would think that they would have some involvment in this. The OGF guys you would think also? I think this would be an amazing thing for OR, sensible cannabis laws that improve the entire state's financial dillema. The website has allot of info on it.

https://www.cannabistaxact.org/

After the debacle of Prop 74 last November, let's hope that Paul Stanford and his side-kick (Ms. Martinez) stay under 'deep cover' until the election season is over when this comes for a vote - if that actually happens.

Oregon voters are fatigued over the medical marijuana issue. Look at the past 3 elections where 'MMJ' ballot initiatives were up for a vote going back to 2005 or so. It ain't pretty. The antics of Stanford and Martinez is the stuff of legends - complete and total clowns. You can add OGF to that group.

If the Oregon MMJ deal has any hope/chance of moving forward they have to come up with better representatives than this group. Just how many opportunities are Oregon patients willing to throw to the trash over personalities like these people?

CC

[StinKyFinGerS]

hey stagger is this the same initiative that will allow state police access to all growers/card holders and regulate growers? i saw something about that on the news this morning in passing but didn't catch the whole thing.

[vStagger Leev]

God i hope not, I havent heard anything about that! I'll check it out and let you know.

[StinKyFinGerS]

stagger Lee found the article hear ya go


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Bill Would Tighten Ore. Medical Marijuana Access

POSTED: 9:12 pm PDT May 18, 2011

facebookdel.icio.usdiggreddit› › Email›› PrintGRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Former state troopers in the Legislature have revived a bill that would make it harder for people to qualify for a medical marijuana card and tighten controls on the people growing it.

House Bill 3664 gets a hearing Thursday afternoon in Salem in the House Rules Committee.

The bill sets a higher standard for doctors to authorize medical marijuana cards for patients, and imposes tougher restrictions on authorizing marijuana for people under 18. And it would open the entire registry of medical marijuana growers to police four times a year, whether they are investigating a crime or not.

Robert Wolfe of the Oregon Marijuana Policy Initiative said they were left out of meetings to draft the bill, and believe it sets such a high standard for doctors that they would not be able to issue any medical marijuana cards to patients.

Voters in 1998 made Oregon one of the first states in the nation to allow people to use marijuana to treat medical conditions. The Legislature revised the law in 2005 to ease restrictions on how much pot patients and growers could have on hand. This year, lawmakers offered more than a dozen bills to revise the law. A working group of former state troopers offered a bill combining some of the measures, but it failed to make a deadline to get through normal channels.

So the current bill went to the Rules Committee, which has later deadlines, making it a haven for bills that fail to get traction.

More than 38,000 Oregonians hold medical marijuana patient cards, 1 percent of the population. More than 24,000 are registered growers. Patients have to grow their own marijuana or get it from an authorized grower, who cannot charge beyond expenses. Cardholders are limited to six mature plants and a pound and a half of processed cannabis at one time. Voters turned down a measure last year that would have allowed cardholders to buy marijuana from dispensaries.

"We're trying to bring a little bit of control to the medical marijuana act," said Rep. Andy Olson, R-Albany, a retired state police lieutenant, lead sponsor of the bill, and co-chairman of the Rules Committee. He said the bill is aimed at preserving medical marijuana access for patients with legitimate need while cracking down on the patients, growers and caregivers he says are abusing the intent of voters when they approved the law.

Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, advised backers of the original initiative and is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He said he found it reasonable to tighten up the law by requiring a nationwide criminal background check for cardholders, and limiting cards to Oregon residents. But he objected to making it harder for doctors to authorize medical marijuana and to throwing open to authorities the confidential list of growers.

He said sponsors seemed to be rushing the bill through the Legislature without a proper public discussion when there had been no public outcry over the present system.

Wolfe said police were already abusing the confidential state list of marijuana patients, caregivers and growers. Members of law enforcement agencies went online 51,000 times to check the list of medical marijuana cardholders between Sept. 2009 and Sept. 2010, according to the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program.

Marijuana grower James Bowman said he welcomed increased regulation of growers, but felt they should have been consulted.

"We're just the last ones people want come to for these solutions," said Bowman, who oversees the biggest medical marijuana farm in Oregon, which provides for 70 patients.

[vStagger Leev]

Thanks for the great info bro!! Let's see what happens this year Much love, SL