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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2016
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Investment
restrictions
might be lifted
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Represen-
tatives from the marijuana
industry came out in droves
Tuesday to speak out on legis-
lation to hone the state’s infant
marijuana laws.
“This is going to be an
ongoing process that probably
goes on for several years, but
I hope what you’re hearing is
we are making a good faith
effort to meet people’s needs,”
said state Rep. Ann Lininger,
D-Lake Oswego, co-chair-
woman of the Joint Committee
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The committee has moved
a series of proposed changes to
the law.
One of the changes would
remove a two-year residency
requirement to do business
in the marijuana industry.
Another would loosen restric-
tions on selling into both recre-
ational and medical markets.
Lifting investment
restrictions
The Legislature largely
prohibited out-of-state resi-
dents from participating in or
investing in marijuana busi-
nesses. The proposed change
would lift that restriction “to
attract investments necessary
for long-term growth,” said
Amy Margolis of the Oregon
Cannabis Association.
The association and other
groups argued that limiting
investments in marijuana busi-
nesses would severely hamper
the industry.
Some growers told a
different story Tuesday. Many
growers said the market has
become increasingly competi-
tive and want the state to keep
the residency requirement.
One grower said lifting
the restriction would give
an “unfair advantage against
Oregon growers.”
“Residency requirements
are important to ensure a func-
tional system in Oregon,”
said Jonathon Manton of the
Oregon Sungrown Growers
Guild. “OSGG believes they
are also necessary for small
business to have a chance of
survival against large out-of-
state interests.”
Selling into medical pot
program
Another provision in the
legislation would allow recre-
ational producers to sell into the
medical marijuana program.
That change anticipates an
exodus of growers, processors
and retailers from the medical
program into the more prof-
itable recreational industry
when the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission begins
issuing licenses for recre-
ational sales.
Some lawmakers are
worried there won’t be enough
low-cost
medical
mari-
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juana available to patients.
The pathway to sell into the
medical program is one of the
ways lawmakers are proposing
to address a shortage.
Lawmakers also have
proposed making it easier for
medical marijuana cardholders
to share marijuana products
with other cardholders, care-
givers and dispensaries.
So far, about 80 percent of
medical marijuana dispensa-
ries have indicated they plan
to switch to recreational sales
when OLCC begins recre-
ational licensing, according
to an ongoing survey by the
Oregon Health Authority.
Hearing drew hundreds
Tuesday’s public hearing
drew hundreds of attendees
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committee hearing room. Some
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the Capitol’s lobby to watch
live-streaming video of the
testimony.
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provisions
lawmakers are considering
would:
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to 8 ounces of marijuana or 1
ounce of cannabinoid extracts
with other household members
who are 21 or older;
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container marijuana” as using
the drug while operating a
motor vehicle or having an
unsealed or partially-used
container in the vehicle;
• Allow offenders on
parole, probation or other
conditional release programs
to use medical marijuana if
they are cardholders;
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of certain marijuana related
crimes. Export of marijuana
would be a class C felony if
committed for the purpose of
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A misdemeanor. Manufac-
turing pot within 1,000 feet
of a school would be a class
B felony, while delivering to a
minor, a class C felony;
• Create a work group to
recommend guidelines for
prescribing cannabis and to
issue a report to the Legisla-
ture by January 2017;
• Fund a pilot program to
increase awareness among
youth about the impacts of
using pot;
•
Allow
agreements
between the states and Indian
tribes to allow tribes to use state
programs to sell marijuana.
Several
committee
members also proposed
amendments to the legislation.
Sen. Ginny Burdick,
D-Portland, has proposed
delaying a March 1 dead-
line for medical marijuana
plant limits while the Oregon
Health Authority completes
its process for grandfathering
growers who were producing
on or before Dec. 31, 2014.
The delay would only impact
growers with 48 to 96 plants,
Burdick said.
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of 25 percent renewable energy by 2025.
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Tuesday that the bill would actually have a the state of Oregon follow with them,”
greater impact on the types of power utili- Seaman said. “So there are provisions
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