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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015 Kitzhaber to offer ideas on Measure 91 implementation )DYRUVPHUJLQJ recreational, medical systems He said staff will be active- O\LQYROYHG Although Kitzhaber plans D OHWWHU IRU 2/&& KH DF- knowledges that lawmakers will have to be involved in By PETER WONG some of the ideas he wants Capital Bureau VWXGLHG 7KH ¿YH PHPEHUV RI 6$/(0 ² *RY -RKQ 2/&& KDV EHJXQ D VWDWH- Kitzhaber plans to release a wide tour soon to shape its statement soon about what rulemaking process, and law- KH ZDQWV WKH 2UHJRQ /L- PDNHUV EHJLQ WKHLU GD\ FILE/Associated Press quor Control Commission VHVVLRQRQ)HE and lawmakers to consider A sample of marijuana is Recreational use will be as they implement recre- shown inside the dispensa- OHJDO -XO\ DOWKRXJK 2/&& ational use of marijuana in ry at Collective Awakenings OLFHQVLQJRIUHWDLOVDOHVLVH[- in September 2014, in Port- pected in another year or so, 2UHJRQ Kitzhaber, at a meeting land. Gov. John Kitzhaber after it starts accepting appli- Tuesday sponsored by The said he supports merging FDWLRQV-DQ$VSHFLDO Associated Press, said he the medical marijuana sys- House-Senate committee also would present a “series of tem with the newly passed will focus on legalization, SULQFLSOHV´SUREDEO\ODWHUWKLV recreational scheme. which voters approved as ZHHN +H VDLG KLV PRUH VSH- 0HDVXUHRQ1RY FL¿F UHFRPPHQGDWLRQV DUH 2/&& DQG ODZPDNHUV ZRUN Kitzhaber said he favors a likely to emerge later as the WKURXJKWKHSURFHVV merger of systems for medical marijuana and recreational PDULMXDQD 0HDVXUH PDGH QR FKDQJHV LQ WKH ODZ DO- lowing marijuana for medical uses, but some lawmakers have said they want to consid- HUFKDQJHV “I think you need to put WKHP WRJHWKHU´ .LW]KDEHU VDLG ³,W¶V HDVLHU WR DVN TXHV- tions when you do not have two separate systems operat- LQJ´ Kitzhaber said lawmak- HUV KDYH VLQFH H[SDQGHG WKH list of conditions that qualify IRU PHGLFDO PDULMXDQD XVH Among the conditions in the initial law were glaucoma and nausea associated with che- PRWKHUDS\ ³,W¶V VWUD\HG TXLWH D ELW´ said Kitzhaber, a former HPHUJHQF\URRPSK\VLFLDQ 2I WKH DOPRVW SD- WLHQWV UHJLVWHUHG ZLWK WKH 2U- HJRQ0HGLFDO0DULMXDQD3UR- JUDP DV RI -DQ PRUH WKDQ XVHLWIRUVHYHUHSDLQ IRU QDXVHD IRU FDQFHU DQG IRU JODXFR- PD7KHUHDUHRWKHUTXDOLI\LQJ conditions under the law, and patients can indicate multiple UHDVRQVIRUPHGLFDOXVH Kitzhaber supported the EDOORW PHDVXUH EXW RS- SRVHG 0HDVXUH $OWKRXJK he called legalization “inevi- WDEOH´ .LW]KDEHU VDLG GXULQJ WKH FDPSDLJQ WKDW 2UHJRQ should await lessons from Washington and Colorado, where voters approved legal- L]DWLRQPHDVXUHVLQ Among the questions Kitzhaber will raise is the number of plants the law al- lows someone to grow for per- VRQDOXVH²IRXU²ZHLJKHG against the eight ounces under the law that someone can pos- VHVV DW KRPH 3XEOLF SRVVHV- VLRQLVOLPLWHGWRRQHRXQFH “Allowing homegrown simply seems to be out of sync with a regulated mar- NHW´KHVDLG Kitzhaber also wants 2/&& DQG ODZPDNHUV WR show how a regulated market will reduce the black market for recreational marijuana, and what can be done to de- YLVHDWHVW²FRPSDUDEOHWRD EUHDWK WHVW IRU DOFRKRO ² IRU determining whether a driver LVXQGHUWKHLQÀXHQFHRIPDU- LMXDQD Supporters have said the VWDWH WD[ VHW E\ 0HDVXUH should be low enough to en- courage conversions from the black market, and that the PHDVXUH UHTXLUHV RI¿FLDOV WR VHWXQGHUWKHLQÀXHQFHWHVWLQJ UHTXLUHPHQWV First lady: Hayes’ employment with the Clean Economy 'HYHORSPHQW&HQWHUFRXOGFUHDWHDFRQÀLFWRILQWHUHVW Continued from Page 1A Hayes’ job in particular raises questions, such as whether her compensation was reasonable given the amount of work she did and whether Hayes’ employ- er sought to use the connection WRLQÀXHQFHVWDWHSROLF\ Hayes was on the Clean Economy Development Center’s payroll from 2011 to 2012, at the same time she served as an un- paid adviser to the governor on energy and economic develop- PHQW SROLFLHV )RU H[DPSOH WKH 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that her “primary work was to implement communica- tions strategies promoting clean HFRQRP\GHYHORSPHQW´ A spokeswomen for the gov- ernor also did not respond to questions about whether Hayes used the governor’s mansion for an event associated with the Clean Economy Development &HQWHU 2Q $SULO D “Clean Economy dinner meet- LQJ´ ZDV VFKHGXOHG DW WKH JRY- ernor’s mansion, according to SXEOLFUHFRUGV Public records also yield few details about the Clean Econo- my Development Center, which functioned largely under the radar of the IRS, state attorneys JHQHUDODQGRWKHUUHJXODWRUV$V DQRQSUR¿WLW¿OHGMXVWRQHIHGHU- DOWD[UHWXUQ²LQZKHQLW UHSRUWHGPRUHWKDQLQ UHYHQXH ,Q 0D\ WKH ,56 UHYRNHG WKH JURXS¶V WD[H[HPSW VWDWXVGXHWRLWVIDLOXUHWR¿OHUH- WXUQVIRUWKUHHFRQVHFXWLYH\HDUV California and most other states require charities to register, often with the attorney gener- DO¶V RI¿FH LI WKH\ VROLFLW FRQWUL- EXWLRQV %XW GHVSLWH UHFHLYLQJ grants from at least one Califor- QLDQRQSUR¿WWKH&OHDQ(FRQR- my Development 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H[HFXWLYH GLUHFWRU -HI- IUH\.LQJ.LQJZRUNHGIRUWKH Portland-based technology in- YHVWPHQWEDQN3DFL¿F&UHVW6H- curities, and had connections in WKH 2UHJRQ VXVWDLQDEOH HQHUJ\ FRPPXQLW\ ³-HIIUH\DQG,GLGVRPHZRUN together when he lived in Port- land and we continued to collab- orate on ideas, around especially EXLOGLQJUHWUR¿WV´%DLOH\VDLG $IWHU %DLOH\ ZRQ KLV ¿UVW election to the state House in 2008, the two men worked to- gether on legislation to create a state low-interest loan program WR¿QDQFHHQHUJ\HI¿FLHQF\DQG UHQHZDEOHHQHUJ\SURMHFWV “When I was a freshman in the Legislature, after I’d been elected, (King) was actually part of the group of people that sort of met to trade ideas on what ulti- PDWHO\EHFDPHWKH(QHUJ\ (I¿FLHQF\DQG6XVWDLQDEOH7HFK- QRORJ\$FW´%DLOH\VDLG $OWKRXJK %DLOH\ ZDV DOVR listed as a senior fellow on the Clean Economy Development Center’s website, he denied that he was ever a fellow, and said KLVFRQVXOWLQJ¿UPZDVKLUHGIRU D VSHFL¿F SURMHFW WR GHWHUPLQH whether Rhode Island could 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