Community | September 11, 2010 | 9 comments

The buying and selling of legal marijuana

source: http://stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=511628

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In Oregon, a ballot initiative this November will attempt to clarify how plants get into patients’ hands. If approved, Measure 74 will allow dispensaries to open under the watch of the Oregon Health Authority. Jim Klahr, an Oregon medical marijuana advocate, says the measure will allow patients instant access to their medicine, rather than having to wait for their plants to mature. (For Stateline's guide to this year's ballot measures, click here.)

Right now, patients gather in informal swap meets to learn how to start cultivating marijuana and to exchange seeds or advice, all the while avoiding direct financial transactions. Oregon’s informal distribution system came under pressure in 2005 when a U.S. Supreme Court decision found that a patient using medical marijuana under California’s law was in violation of federal law. But an opinion from the Oregon Attorney General’s office said that the state’s program could continue despite the court’s ruling.

http://stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=511628
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9 comments // The buying and selling of legal marijuana

  • SHAWN_RITTIMAN
  • H2O_4U
  • Conniepae
    • +3
      Conniepae  

    • An important fact, which many are overlooking. Cannabis legalization, ends the prohibition on hemp. Hemp cultivation and usage has been a casualty in the war on cannabis.

      Hemp could be an industry, all on it's own. There are so many known uses for cannabis and hemp already. Given modern medicine and industrial innovation, the limits of cannabis will not be known for years.

      The ultimate outcome could be a new industrial revolution in America, making environmentally friendly products from hemp. Hemp cultivation was used to clean the soil and air around Chernobyl.

      Jobs, jobs, jobs!

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
    • +5
      UtopianSky  

    • Here is an odd thing-

      It's illegal to grow and use a plant, a simple plant; marijuana.

      But it is perfectly OK to grow Hemlock, Belladonna, or any other plant that kills people.

      You can grow a plant that will kill you, but not a plant that will get you high.

    • 1 year ago
  • jubal
  • im1mjrpain
  • UtopianSky
    • +1
      UtopianSky  
    • im1mjrpain:

      Um, first, I said Hemlock and Belladonna would kill you, not marijuana.

      Plus, there has GOT to be at least one case of someone who fell asleep with a lit cigarette and burned down the house. :)

    • 1 year ago
  • Prijedor
  • floydyboy
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