[Robrites]

The West Coast is looking mighty green these days. As of Jan. 1, 2018, when California joins the growing list of states with legalized recreational cannabis markets, adults 21 years and older will be able to legally purchase, possess and consume marijuana from the Arctic Circle all the way down to the California-Mexico border.
Altogether, eight states and Washington, D.C., have voted to legalize recreational marijuana since 2012. Six of those states — Alaska, California, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada and Washington — are in the West.
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But since legalization has happened at the state level, understanding what is and isn’t allowed in each state can be difficult to figure out.
For example, at Ivy Cannabis on Portland’s Hayden Island in the Columbia River, a customer can purchase up to 5 grams of marijuana concentrates. But a mere 2.4 miles to the north, just off of Interstate 5 in Vancouver, Washington’s Arnada neighborhood, that same adult is allowed to purchase up to 7 grams of concentrate at High End Market Place.
That’s just one example of how each state’s recreational laws differ from one another. To help clear up the confusion, we’ve answered some basic questions about the differences between California’s, Oregon’s and Washington’s recreational markets below.
Who Can Legally Buy Cannabis In California, Oregon And Washington?

This is one area where these three legalized states are in agreement: Adults 21 years of age and older can purchase, possess and consume cannabis. This includes non-residents. Transporting cannabis across state lines, however, remains illegal. Having a valid state or federal ID on hand is a must as each state requires strict adherence to the age requirement.
Legalized sales aren’t set to begin in California until Jan. 1, 2018, when the state starts issuing licenses to stores, processors and distributors. This means it could be tricky for many Golden State residents to find a spot to buy legal marijuana on New Year’s Day.
What Can I Buy And How Much Of It?

What people can purchase and how much of it tends to vary from state to state.
Washington and Oregon, for example, share the same limits on how much marijuana flower (1 ounce) an adult can purchase in a single day, as well as limits on how much infused cannabis edibles (16 ounces) and infused beverages (72 ounces) can be purchased per day. How much marijuana concentrates and extracts a person can buy differs between the two states: Oregon allows up to 5 grams per day and Washington allows up to 7 grams per day.
California also allows for the purchase of up to 1 ounce of marijuana flower, but it has different rules when it comes to concentrates and edibles. The limit for cannabis extract jumps up to 8 grams at a time in the Golden State.
Each state also has various standards for potency of edibles. In Oregon, a package of edibles can contain up to 50 milligrams of THC — the main psychoactive chemical in marijuana that gets users high — not to exceed 5 milligrams per serving. Those limits double in California and Washington to 100 milligrams and 10 milligrams, respectively.







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[MJPassion]

Interesting article.

Would be nice if it included more than just those 3 states. Especially considering that there’s 3 states in the West left to tie the entire Western USA together. Well... & getting a few on board w rec...

[Robrites]

[Betterhaff]

Anything on possession limits?

[trichrider]

Originally Posted by Betterhaff

Anything on possession limits?

ooops, not in first post.
my bad

[aridbud]

Excellent graphics, Robrites. Thanks for the article.

[soil margin]

How do they plan to enforce the 1 ounce a day rule? Without some kind of electronic tracking system I could just go buy 1 ounce a day from every dispensary in the city which would be like a pound+ a day. These rules don't make any sense to me whatsoever and I don't understand what they are trying to accomplish.

[PDX Dopesmoker]

Originally Posted by soil margin

How do they plan to enforce the 1 ounce a day rule? Without some kind of electronic tracking system I could just go buy 1 ounce a day from every dispensary in the city which would be like a pound+ a day. These rules don't make any sense to me whatsoever and I don't understand what they are trying to accomplish.

Its pointless bullshit government people put in place to assert their authority, they use it to justify their cash theft. The seed possession laws in Oregon are pretty sever so watch out on that, a single one of those 13 seed DJ Short packs could get you 6 months in jail, cause we legalized weed an all that.
There is far more enforcement of the extremely strict cannabis laws now that we have legalization, they spend almost all of the tax money on hiring more cops or other oppressive state law enforcement.
They put red lights cameras up "just at a few dangerous intersections" but now they're all over the place and the cameras were reprogrammed to give out speeding tickets too.
Armed autonomous drones hunting people was just for terrorists in Afghanistan ten years ago, but now they do it in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming too.
Innumerable data surveillance techniques which were once just for the military and espionage agencies to use on evil foreigners are now used by the local police, all of whom have already had the military indoctrination necessary to use them on civilians.

I felt a lot more free back when weed was illegal, maybe legal drugs have made me paranoid.

[soil margin]

Originally Posted by PDX Dopesmoker

Its pointless bullshit government people put in place to assert their authority.

Yeah that's pretty much my take on it as well. I would understand if they made really strict rules that actually accomplished something, but how is limiting the strength of edibles and how much weed I can buy in a day going to do anything?

It's like they write laws just for the sake of writing laws. I definitely preferred the medical system we've had here in Cali since 1996, but who knows, maybe with a little more time some of the stupid laws will get repealed and legalization will actually be a good thing.

[PDX Dopesmoker]

Originally Posted by soil margin

Yeah that's pretty much my take on it as well. I would understand if they made really strict rules that actually accomplished something, but how is limiting the strength of edibles and how much weed I can buy in a day going to do anything?

It's like they write laws just for the sake of writing laws. I definitely preferred the medical system we've had here in Cali since 1996, but who knows, maybe with a little more time some of the stupid laws will get repealed and legalization will actually be a good thing.

Take a closer look at the history of the states that preceded California in recreational legalization before you decide to go with the "it will all work out in the end" attitude. Imagine all of the people in WA who used to legally grow their own, do you think that they're continuing to do so illegally now that they're on a state list of people who used to grow cannabis but are no longer legally allowed to? You think those who still grow are shitting a few extra bricks? What reasonable expectation have you been given that Cali will be any different?

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