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Congressmen work to protect legal pot
JONATHAN BACH
STATESMAN JOURNAL
Oregon Rep. Earl Blu-
menauer and Sen. Ron
Wyden stepped up efforts
to protect legal marijuana
Thursday, even as the na-
tion’s attorney general
has heavily criticized the
drug.
The pair of Democrats
announced sweeping fed-
eral bills including one to
regulate the plant similar-
ly to alcohol and tobacco
and remove it from the
schedule of controlled
substances.
Marijuana sales have
meant more than $65 mil-
lion in tax revenue for
their Pacific Northwest-
ern, with lawmakers in
Salem staring down an es-
timated $1.6 billion bud-
get shortfall.
“What the two of us are
here today to say is: Vot-
ers in Oregon and others
states have chosen to le-
galize marijuana, and
their votes shouldn’t just
be casually thrown in the
trash can by this admini-
stration,” Wyden said on
press call with Blume-
nauer.
White House and U.S.
Department of Justice
spokespeople declined to
comment directly on the
congressmen’s
moves
Thursday, which come at
a time when marijuana
has garnered support na-
tionally.
A poll released last
month from Quinnipiac
University saying 71 per-
cent of voters didn’t want
to see federal anti-mari-
juana laws enforced
where recreational or
medical use is legal.
Cannabis
analytics
firm New Frontier Data
expects the national legal
marijuana market to
grow to more than $24 bil-
lion by 2025. The Wash-
ington, D.C.-based firm
projects Oregon’s recre-
ational marijuana market
will be worth roughly
$502 million by the end of
STATESMAN JOURNAL FILE
Sen. Ron Wyden
SUSAN WALSH / AP FILE
Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
this year and about $827
million by the end of 2025.
U.S. Attorney General
Jeff Sessions has tele-
graphed opposition to le-
gal weed, yet despite his
condemnation of the crop,
Department of Justice of-
ficials are for the time be-
ing still running by an
Obama Administration-
era memo issued by then-
Deputy Attorney General
James Cole outlining the
department’s tack for
dealing with marijuana.
“The department’s cur-
rent policy remains the
2013 Cole Memo,” a De-
partment
of
Justice
spokesman said. “The At-
torney General has made
several comments ex-
pressing his personal
views on the issue.”
Wyden on Thursday
criticized Sessions, say-
ing, “I’m particularly con-
cerned because it appears
that the attorney general
wants to cherry pick, ap-
parently on the basis of
some kind of whim, which
states’ rights he likes and
which ones he doesn’t
like.”
The White House
kicked up anxiety in
February when Press Sec-
retary Sean Spicer allud-
ed to “greater enforce-
ment” of federal marijua-
na laws, excepting medi-
cal marijuana. Asked
about
the
executive
branch’s general take on
marijuana reform Thurs-
day, a White House
spokeswoman said, “I
have nothing to add be-
yond Sean’s comments.”
The legalization move-
ment has opponents, with
one of them being anti-le-
galization group Smart
Approaches to Marijuana.
“While we don’t want to
see folks locked up or giv-
en criminal records for
smoking pot, we support
federal laws against mari-
juana,” SAM President
Kevin Sabet said Thurs-
day in a statement. “It’s
time to end, not expand
the special interest big
marijuana lobby. They’d
like us to ignore the fact
that today’s legalized mar-
ijuana - and the accompa-
nying industry - is damag-
ing to public health.”
Marijuana advocates
praised the congress-
men’s moves. People
around the nation who
voted in cannabis laws
ought to be respected,
said Derek Peterson,
Chief Executive of mari-
juana-focused
agricul-
ture company Terra Tech
Corp. “Reforms to the
banking laws will help
bring even more transpar-
ency and oversight to the
legal cannabis industry
by discouraging grey and
black market activity,” he
said in a statement.
A portion of the “Path
to Marijuana Reform” an-
nounced Thursday tar-
gets expense deductions
for marijuana businesses.
“The real problems for
the thousands of state-le-
gal marijuana businesses,
whether they’re adult
(use) or medical, is that
they can’t deduct their
business expenses, and
it’s very hard for them to
get banking services,”
Blumenauer said in an in-
terview. “It really is a
choke point.”
In addition, Blume-
nauer is co-sponsoring the
Respect State Marijuana
Laws Act of 2017, along
with a bipartisan mix of
more than a dozen House
lawmakers, which would
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change the Controlled
Substances Act so that
people who use marijuana
within state laws aren’t
punished.
Blumenauer is also set
to reintroduce an amend-
ment with Rep. Dana Roh-
rabacher, R-Calif., that
would shield medical mar-
ijuana from a federal
crackdown where it is le-
gal.
That would follow the
initial passage years ago
of the Rohrabacher-Farr
Amendment — named for
Rohrabacher and then-
Rep. Sam Farr, D-Calif.
Blumenauer is essentially
taking Farr’s place on the
amendment, though time-
lines on its reintroduction
are still unclear.
Rohrabacher “plans to
reintroduce it, but the
congressional calendar
may move it beyond
April,” a spokesman for
the California Republican
said. “He seems to want to
deal with recreational use
separately.”
Rohrabacher and Blu-
menauer are members of
a bipartisan Congression-
al Cannabis Caucus an-
nounced this year, which
includes Reps. Jared Po-
lis, D-Colo., and Don
Young, R-Ala.
Federal lawmakers on
both sides of the aisle
have piled on to support
marijuana
legislation:
Freshman Rep. Thomas
Garrett, Jr., R-Va., intro-
duced the Ending Federal
Marijuana
Prohibition
Act of 2017. The four can-
nabis caucus members
have co-sponsored the bill
that aims to strike mari-
State legislation
would penalize
‘left-lane hogs’
TRACY LOEW
STATESMAN JOURNAL
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juana from the schedule
of controlled substances.
Polis, the Colorado
Democrat, is sponsoring
the “Regulate Marijuana
Like Alcohol Act,” which
he says would finish fed-
eral prohibition of weed.
“The law nationally, is
out of date,” he said in an
interview where he called
his bill a “long-term fix.”
“There’s still a national
interest in keeping (mari-
juana) out of the hands of
minors,” Polis said. He
wants to make sure the
bill doesn’t make marijua-
na legal where people
haven’t voted it in, remov-
ing “that shadow of uncer-
tainty.”
As a more temporary
fix, Polis also plans to
reintroduce an amend-
ment that would stop the
Department of Justice
from spending money to
interfere with state mari-
juana laws if and when the
Commerce, Justice, Sci-
ence appropriations bill
— which affects the De-
partment of Justice —
goes to the floor. “I’m con-
fident we have the votes
to pass it,” Polis said.
The House of Repre-
sentatives narrowly re-
jected
this
so-called
McClintock-Polis Amend-
ment in 2015. But for Po-
lis, the key change is a lot
of states have legalized
marijuana since then, and
many congressmen want
to make sure the federal
government isn’t interfer-
ing with state laws.
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Drivers who are “left-
lane hogs” could be
ticketed under legisla-
tion passed by the Ore-
gon Senate Tuesday.
Senate Bill 532 would
require drivers on high-
ways with at least two
lanes going in the same
direction to use the left
lane only for passing oth-
er vehicles.
Violators could be
fined $110.
“It really puts into our
law just common courte-
sy,” said Sen. Ginny Bur-
dick, D-Portland, who
carried the bill. “When
you’re in the left lane you
should be passing. If
you’re not passing you
should move to the right.
That’s just polite.”
The bill provides ex-
ceptions for situations
such as road hazards or
complying with Oregon’s
“move over” law, which
requires
drivers
to
change lanes or slow
down when passing
emergency and roadside
assistance vehicles.
Since 2013, at least
five other states – Flori-
da, Georgia, Indiana,
New Jersey and Tennes-
see – have increased pen-
alties on left-lane hogs.
Oklahoma and Vir-
ginia are considering
similar legislation.
Senate Bill 532 passed
on a 19-10 vote. It now
goes to the House for con-
sideration.
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Drivers who are “left-lane hogs” could be ticketed under
legislation passed by the Oregon Senate Tuesday.
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