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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2015
Pot: The black market is ‘not some sinister thing’
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“I think the Oct. 1 start is
good,” he said, as it gives time
for outdoor crops to be har-
vested and avoids depleting the
medical supply. “July 1 would
have been reckless.”
John Harper, who owns
smoke shops in Astoria, Seaside,
Scappoose and Rainier, said
he provided a loan to help start
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cial advice. He said medical dis-
pensaries are the best available
avenue to roll out recreational
marijuana, as they have already
been tried, tested and inspected.
“You have to approach this
as if it was any other business,”
Harper said. He is an investor in
six to eight dispensaries in Ore-
gon. Harper said he doesn’t see a
rush of new dispensaries, but an
increase across Clatsop County
as moratoriums are lifted.
One of the approved dispen-
sary applications is for Highway
420 in Seaside, which owner
Steve Geiger said he has been try-
ing to open for nearly three years.
“I’m hoping we’re going to
get started here in the next few
weeks,” Geiger said. He needs an
inspection by the Oregon Health
Authority to get his license re-
newed before the city of Seaside
will complete his background
check. He, like every other med-
ical dispensary owner, hopes to
sell recreationally starting Oct. 1.
“There are 600 medical
cards in Clatsop County, and
you would never be able to sur-
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A marijuana plant sits on a shelf in The Farmacy.
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Nick Clark, owner of Nature’s Choice Alternative Medicine, shows different strains of
medical marijuana including raspberry kush, and a homegrown mango strain.
vive here without this place be-
ing a destination,” Geiger said.
“If you’re a medical marijuana
dispensary owner, and you have
no plans to go recreational, you
have a pretty short life in this
business.”
Dispensary owners say prices
at dispensaries will be compara-
ble to the black market, and that
people will be willing to go to the
shops and pay a little more for the
increased variety and quality.
Police perspective
Clatsop County District Attor-
ney Josh Marquis was a staunch
opponent of Measure 91, speak-
ing on behalf of law enforcement
all over the state in opposition.
But for Marquis, the legalization
of marijuana inspires a sigh.
“It’s not like this is going to
change things for prosecution or
cops very much,” he said.
Marquis said maybe three
out of more than 1,000 recent
cases in the county were related
to marijuana.
Astoria Police Chief Brad
Johnston said marijuana has and
will continue to be a low priority
for police, adding there are issues
with trivialization of possession
in the law and vagaries on the
implications of legal marijuana.
Johnston said police are wait-
ing for the Legislature to do its
job by making the rules, adding
he supports a legal path to buy
what is now a legal substance.
“It seems that the rules
should have been clear prior to
the law change,” Johnston said.
“These are things that were
brought up before Ballot Mea-
sure 91 passed and the day that
Ballot Measure 91 was passed.”
A big question for law en-
forcement, Marquis said, is
when edibles will be allowed
for sale, as a concern is they will
be marketed to children. The
edibles market is awash with
products modeled after popular
candies and chocolates.
“I’m very upset with what
‘The black market is
largely people’s friends
and neighbors.’
— Josh Marquis
Clatsop County district attorney
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the (Oregon) Legislature is do-
ing,” Marquis said of Senate Bill
460, adding it is going back on
Measure 91’s promises to tax,
regulate and protect children
from marijuana, in order to get
it out faster.
Marquis has long been a crit-
ic of dispensaries and medical
marijuana, which he said are rel-
atively unregulated compared to
drinking establishments.
“This idea of ‘where are they
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dicrous,” Marquis said, adding
marijuana has been grown and
used by Oregonians since de-
criminalization in 1973.
“The black market is largely
people’s friends and neighbors,”
he said. “It’s not some sinister
thing.”
Ilwaco: August reservations for slips at the Port are sold out
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already seeing a lot of coho
and Chinook along the coast,”
said Doug Milward, ocean
salmon manager for the
Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife in a recent
report.
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salmon he’s seen have been
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landed a 25-pounder earlier
in June.
“It’s turning out pretty
good,” said Butch Smith of
Coho Charters in Ilwaco. “It
always starts out a little slow
before school gets out and
graduation, but it’s been a
pretty good season.”
And then comes August
August is when things
will really get busy.
Already, August reser-
vations for slips at the Port
of Ilwaco are sold out. Last
year, people started reserv-
ing later in the season when
they realized the fishing was
going to be good. This year,
with the last summer on their
minds, people began call-
ing to reserve boat slips the
minute the port began tak-
ing summer reservations on
March 1.
In that first month, port
staff scheduled more than
250 reservations for the
summer, said Port Manager
Guy Glenn Jr.
“And they’ve been trick-
ling in ever since then,” he
said.
Last August, boats load-
ed with sportfishermen were
front to back for miles up
and down the Columbia Riv-
er, and in Ilwaco, charter
boat businesses and small
seafood processors were
kept hopping. Some captains
reported it took longer to get
to fishing grounds than it
took for their passengers to
land their daily limit in fish.
Boats were going out early
in the morning and returning
just several hours later.
Last year was so good,
in fact, that Gudgell bought
a new boat for his charter
business and hired another
captain and deckhand to run
it. The last time he’d bought
a boat was about five years
earlier. It’s not the sort of
purchase he makes on a
whim.
“Boats are pretty darned
expensive when you only
operate six months out of
the year,” he said. But, then,
he’s also been getting more
and more people booking
trips a year in advance.
Smith didn’t buy a boat,
but he did stock up on neces-
sary equipment like leaders.
He’d expected they would
use 4,000 last year and in-
stead they ended up using
about 7,000.
“Everybody’s going to be
slammed in August,” Gud-
gell said. “Everybody.”
Still no sturgeon
One thing that is disap-
pointing this year is that, yet
again, sturgeon will be off
limits.
“That hurts us really bad at
the coast,” Smith said.
Among the people making
those year-in-advance res-
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