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143RD YEAR, NO. 191
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Smith’s murder trial pushed to 2017
Psychologist could not determine whether Smith is mentally ¿ t to proceed
Lynne Mor-
gan, right, an
attorney for
Jessica Smith,
sits during a
hearing at the
Clatsop Coun-
ty Courthouse
on Wednesday.
day to delay Smith¶s trial, which was
scheduled for this summer, until June
2017, as defense lawyers and prosecutors
continue to argue over her mental state
Psychologist %rooke +oward was hired
to independently evaluate Smith based on
her lawyers¶ claims that she is unable to
aid and assist in her own defense
The defense believes Smith suffers
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
A court-appointed psychologist found
accused murderer Jessica Smith suffers
from post-traumatic stress disorder, but
could not determine if she is mentally
un¿ t to stand trial
Judge Cindee Matyas agreed Wednes-
Joshua Bessex
The Daily Astorian
A GREENER BLUE
from a mental disease, while prosecutors
think she is faking A contested aid and
assist hearing is set for April
“She¶s malingering and she¶s faking,”
Clatsop County District Attorney Josh
Marquis said during a hearing Wednesday
in Circuit Court
See TRIAL, Page 10A
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
A marijuana plant sits on a shelf in The
Farmacy.
Marijuana
edibles,
extracts to
go retail
Products had been
limited to medical
marijuana patients
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
A derelict vessel sits in the Columbia River off Washington . In 2011, Washington and Oregon created the Columbia River Derelict Ves-
sel Task Force, which identified 40 vessels of concern, many of them more than 100 feet long and with unknown levels of pollution.
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Allen on quest to rid oceans of abandoned boats
tice is usually associated with
“shipbreaking,” a term used to
describe the large-scale, hap-
hazard dismantling of vessels in
places like Alang, India, and Gal-
veston, Texas
Allen wanted to prove the
environmental safety of his meth-
ods using the Cap¶n Oscar , with
hopes of developing Tongue Point
into a larger ship-dismantling and
training center that could be rec-
reated around the country
SALEM — Oregonians will soon be
able to buy low-dose marijuana edibles and
extracts for recreational use
Gov Kate %rown signed legislation into
law Tuesday that allows the recreational
sales and enables medical marijuana dispen-
saries to continue to sell both medical and
recreational pot from the same location
The Oregon +ealth Authority quickly
issued a bulletin warning the marijuana indus-
try to hold off on sales of recreational edibles
and extracts until the agency has adopted tem-
porary rules on serving size and potency
The rules are scheduled for completion in
early April, Andre Ourso, manager of the med-
ical marijuana program, wrote in the bulletin
“We appreciate the opportunity to have
edibles and extracts under the early sales pro-
gram, and we look forward to working with
the Oregon +ealth Authority to come up with
rules,” said David McNicoll of the Oregon
Responsible Edibles Council
Since last October , the early sales pro-
gram, under the Oregon +ealth Authority,
authorized already existing medical mari-
juana dispensaries to sell marijuana to recre-
ational customers Edible and extracts were
restricted to medical marijuana patients
The Oregon Responsible Edibles Council
and Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Associa-
tion lobbied lawmakers to change the de¿ -
nition of “limited marijuana retail product”
to include low-dose edibles and extracts in
early sales
See QUEST, Page 10A
See POT, Page 10A
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
B
lue Ocean Environmen-
tal, the quest by locally
connected environmental-
ist, entrepreneur and ¿ sh-
monger Frank Allen to clean the
world¶s oceans, went online last
weekend
Allen launched the website —
blueoceanenvirocom — to help
call attention to ocean debris and
abandoned vessels, starting with
the ¿ shing boat Cap¶n Oscar at
the Port of Astoria
“Awareness is the issue,” said
Allen, who is energetic, and at
times frenetic, in his passion for
oceans and rivers “We have to
let people know what¶s going on
“Since day one of mankind,
we have used the oceans as a
waste site”
Allen is mostly known for
Live Online Seafood, a com-
pany he created a decade ago,
recycling ¿ sh heads, collars and
other scraps not used by pro-
cessors in Alaska, and shipping
them to Asia for use in other
foods
Daily Astorian file
Frank Allen, the head of Blue
Ocean Environmental, also
runs the company Live Online
Seafoods taking discarded fish
parts and shipping them to Asia.
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Frank Allen, head of Blue Ocean Environmental, said he wants
to test his company’s environmentally friendly ship-disman-
tling techniques on the Cap’n Oscar, a 69-foot steel fishing boat
abando ned at the Port of Astoria. The vessel is stored in a han-
gar at North Tongue Point after sinking multiple times.
Starting locally
Along with %lue Ocean
Environmental¶s website , Allen
has created a GoFundMe page
seeking $70,000 to recycle the
Cap¶n Oscar Allen sees the
abandoned 69-foot fishing boat
as a pilot in his plan to clean the
region¶s — and eventually, the
world¶s — waterways of dere-
lict vessels
Allen came to the Port about
three years ago, proposing an
environmentally safe way of dis-
mantling boats and ships at North
Tongue Point and shipping met-
als to steel mills in Oregon and
Washington state The prac-
Fliers brace for big security lines
Airlines, TSA
concede there is
no easy solution
By SCOTT
MAYEROWITZ
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Fliers
will likely face massive secu-
rity lines at airports across the
country this summer, with air-
lines already warning passen-
gers to arrive at least two hours
early or risk missing their À ight
The Transportation Secu-
rity Administration had antici-
pated that its expedited screen-
ing program, called PreCheck,
would speed up lines and
require fewer agents to screen
passengers %ut the agency has
failed to enroll enough travel-
ers, leaving TSA with too few
screeners to quickly handle a
growing numEer of À iers
The TSA tried to make up
for that shortfall by randomly
placing passengers into the
express lanes %ut it recently
had to scale that back for fear
dangerous passengers were
being let through That¶s when
the lines started growing, up to
minutes in some cases
The TSA is shifting some
resources to tackle lines at the
nation¶s biggest airports, but
says there is no easy solution
to the problem with a record
number of À iers expected this
summer
“We had unacceptable line
waits at the majority of our
hubs,” says Robert Isom, chief
operating of¿ cer of American
Airlines “%ased on what the
TSA is telling us, there is no
relief in sight”
PreCheck
Launched nationwide in
2012, the program gives pre-
viously vetted passengers spe-
cial screening Shoes, belts
and light jackets stay on Lap-
tops and liquids stay in bags
And these À iers go through
standard metal detectors rather
than the explosive-detecting
full-body scanners most pass
through
See SECURITY, Page 10A
Ted S. Warren/AP Photo
Travelers authorized to use the TSA PreCheck expedited
security line at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport have
their documents checked by Transportation Security Ad-
ministration workers. Fliers will likely face massive secu-
rity lines at airports across the country this summer, with
airlines already warning passengers to arrive at least two
hours early or risk missing their flight.