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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 30, 2016
Oficials urge novices start
slow with pot-infused edibles
Marijuana
edibles become
legal in Oregon
Thursday
‘For someone who doesn’t
smoke and is not used
to ingesting marijuana, I
advise eating 5 milligrams
or even half of that just to
see how it hits you.’
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon health
oficials are urging novice
marijuana users to start slow
when pot-infused edibles are
introduced in the state’s legal
recreational market Thursday.
Since October, anyone 21
and older may purchase a lim-
ited amount of cannabis low-
ers, seeds and starter plants.
The Legislature earlier this
year added edibles, extracts
and nonpsychoactive lotions,
balms and oils to that list.
“We are concerned about
folks who are novice users,”
said Jonathan Modie, spokes-
man for the Oregon Health
Authority. “We are concerned
about calls into the poison
center, not just children but
adults.”
Health authorities adopted
temporary rules last month on
the sale of the new products.
The rules take effect Thursday
and expire Dec. 31, when the
Oregon Liquor Control Com-
mission is scheduled to take
over regulation of the recre-
ational marijuana program.
Restricted sales
Temporary rules restrict
sales to one edible product and
one extract per day to each
customer. An edible prod-
uct may contain no more than
15 milligrams of tetrahydro-
cannabinol, or THC, the psy-
choactive chemical in pot.
Leah D’Ambrosio
owner of Sconed in Portland
Extracts are limited to 1,000
milligrams. Customers may
buy an unlimited number of
topical products.
The 15-milligram limit on
edibles might be too potent for
some people, health oficials
said.
“What we are telling the
industry is they should divide
it up into 5-milligram serv-
ings,” said Andre Ourso, man-
ager of the state’s medical
marijuana program. “At that
point, we would recommend
that they label it and say that it
contains three servings.”
Proposed
permanent
rules, effective in January,
limit serving sizes to 5 mil-
ligrams of THC. Up to 10
servings will be allowed in
each package. The proposed
rules also impose stricter
specifications for child-re-
sistant packaging.
“Part of the reason we
chose the 15-milligram limit
for the temporary rules is that
labs can’t test for that low
of a concentration without
it being very expensive and
can’t even give a good coni-
dence level that, that is what it
actually contains,” Ourso said,
referring to the 5-milligram
amount. “In proposed perma-
nent rules, the labs will test the
50 milligrams in the package
but won’t be required to test
each serving size.”
Start out slow
When eating the drug, it
can take one to four hours to
feel effects, he said.
“If you aren’t feeling the
effects after an hour, wait a
couple of more hours, before
consuming more,” Ourso said.
“We would caution people to
start out slow.”
The Oregon Responsible
Edibles Council has launched
a public education campaign
designed to guide new users
through eating marijuana-in-
fused foods for the irst time.
The group’s Try Five Cam-
paign advises consumers
to eat no more than 5 milli-
grams of THC for their irst
experience.
“Fifteen milligrams is dei-
nitely going to be too much
for people who are unfamiliar
with edibles, so we were really
glad we were able to launch
the campaign before edibles
became available,” said David
McNicoll, council founder and
owner of Dave’s Space Cakes
in Eugene. The council has a
website and has been distribut-
ing posters to put up in dispen-
saries and T-shirts for so-called
“bud tenders” to wear when
they’re selling products.
“Everyone in the edibles
industry should be behind this
campaign because when there
is overconsumption of edibles
and people have bad effects it
taints the industry as a whole,”
said Leah D’Ambrosio, edi-
bles council member and
owner of Sconed in Portland.
D’Ambrosio said even for
some regular marijuana users,
eating 15 milligrams of pot can
be too much.
“For someone who doesn’t
smoke and is not used to
ingesting marijuana, I advise
eating 5 milligrams or even
half of that just to see how it
hits you,” she said.
Decals on packages
The processor, who makes
pot-infused toffee and is plan-
ning on soon debuting scones
— her company’s namesake
— also produces edible decals.
The decals are marked with a
green cross and can be attached
or baked onto marijuana-in-
fused foods. The health author-
ity already requires processors
to add a symbol to packages
showing that food contains
marijuana, but the edible decal
is meant to alert consumers
that a food item contains mar-
ijuana, even after the prod-
uct has been removed from its
package, D’Ambrosio said. All
of the Sconed sweets carry the
symbol, and D’Ambrosio also
is starting to market the decals
to other processors.
“It’s just another safeguard
after the product is out of the
package,” she said.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
Study inds more acidic ocean harms crab
Researchers say
indings likely
to apply to
outer coast
By MATT WINTERS
EO Media Group
ILWACO, Wash. — A new
study suggests Dungeness crab
on Washington state’s outer
coast may be harmed by ongo-
ing changes in ocean chem-
istry in the same ways young
oysters are impacted.
Carbon dioxide is increas-
ing in the atmosphere from
the combustion of fossil fuels.
When some of this CO2 is
absorbed by the ocean, seawa-
ter shifts slightly toward being
more acidic. This in turn may
slow development and reduce
survival of the larval stages
of Dungeness crab, NOAA
Fisheries’ Northwest Fisher-
ies Science Center in Seattle
discovered in recent research.
Previous research has focused
on harm caused to young oys-
ters by acidiication.
Dungeness crab are a key
component of the Northwest
marine ecosystem and gen-
erate $84 million annually in
Washington state. They are
particularly important to the
economy in Paciic County,
home to the state’s most pro-
ductive crabbing grounds. The
crab ishery also generates
annual income of $48 million
in Oregon and nearly $67 mil-
lion in California.
“I have great faith in the
resiliency of nature, but I am
concerned,” said Jason Miller,
lead author of the research,
which was part of his disser-
tation. “Crab larvae in our
research were three times more
likely to die when exposed to a
pH that can already be found
in Puget Sound, our own back-
yard, today.”
Study results
apply to coast
While the speciic research
concerned Puget Sound crab,
Miller said in an email that
“there aren’t, to the best of my
understanding, any signiicant
genetic differences between
outer coast and Puget Sound
dungies. (Last I heard, there is
work being done on this ques-
tion, though).”
Miller and Paul McElhany,
a NOAA Fisheries research
scientist and senior author
of the paper, both said more
research and monitoring is
needed on the outer coast to
determine how changing acid-
ity levels — known by the sci-
entiic abbreviation pH —
might impact crab.
“Regardless of where they
are hatched, when larvae are
exposed to low pH, their bod-
ies are being forced to cope
with it,” Miller said. “The
results of our research translate
to the outer coast. Only time
will tell how hard the Dunge-
ness are hit and if, hopefully,
they can acclimate in num-
bers great enough to maintain
their population and in turn the
isheries.”
Average ocean surface pH
is expected to drop to about 7.8
off the West Coast by 2050,
and could drop further during
coastal upwelling periods.
“The Columbia River
plume itself has an effect on
pH (tending to make it lower),
but ... not exactly sure how that
effects things. We have a pro-
W A NTED
at more than $4,000. Most
of the materials have been
recovered and returned to the
A Seaside man was various owners.
sentenced to ive years in
Police found a cellphone
prison Friday
with the stolen
for stealing a
items that con-
trailer and ill-
tained the sexu-
ing it with sto-
ally explicit mate-
len
construc-
rial. The same
tion equipment
images were found
while possess-
on another cell-
ing two cell-
phone that Brelin
phones
illed
was carrying with
with multiple
him, according to
images of child
police.
pornography.
Brelin collected
Frank Benjamin
Frank Ben-
the
illegal images
Brelin
jamin
Brelin
between January
II, 48, was sen-
and October 2015,
tenced in Clatsop County according to the indictment.
Circuit Court after plead-
As part of his sentence,
ing no contest to four Brelin is required to register
counts of irst-degree as a sex offender.
encouraging child sex
abuse and pleading guilty
to two counts of irst-de-
gree theft.
Seaside Police arrested
Brelin in December. He
stole a utility trailer in
October and went to dif-
ferent homes and job sites
to steal ladders, scaffold-
ing and other construction
equipment.
The stolen trailer and
equipment was valued
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
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TRACK & FIELD STATE
N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A
Preparedness
Forum
Tuesday
Liberty Theater
st
May 31
1203 Commercial Street
At the
Astoria, Oregon
Presentations
from
Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.
6 pm - 8:30 pm
Speakers
Include:
Scientists collected eggs
from Dungeness crabs in
Puget Sound and placed
them in tanks at the Mont-
lake Research Laboratory.
The tanks held seawater with
a range of pH levels relect-
ing current conditions as well
as the lower pH occasionally
encountered in Puget Sound
when deep water wells up near
the surface. Larvae also went
into tanks with the even low-
er-pH conditions expected
with ocean acidiication.
Seaside man gets ive
years for theft, child porn
Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500
Presented by the City of Astoria
to
Findings in
Puget Sound
sex abuse charges.
In late February, Moses
Lake Police Department
The Clatsop County arrested Eide and extradited
District Attorney’s Ofice him to Clatsop County.
added a slew of sex abuse
The Clatsop County Sher-
charges against the Moses iff’s Ofice said Eide was
Lake, Washington, man known to the teenage girl
arrested in Febru-
as a family friend.
ary for online sex
Eide allegedly used
abuse of a local
a social network-
teenage girl.
ing site to help nur-
Brandon Wayne
ture a yearlong
Albert Eide, 21,
relationship with
pleaded not guilty
the teenager start-
in Clatsop County
ing in December
Circuit
Court
2014, and met with
Thursday to 33 sex
the girl — who was
abuse charges. The
14 when the abuse
charges include Brandon Wayne began — at her
Albert Eide
third-degree
home and at public
rape,
third-de-
locations in Wash-
gree sodomy, luring a minor, ington state.
irst-degree online sexual
The Sheriff’s Ofice
corruption of a child and conducted the investiga-
irst-degree
encouraging tion with the FBI in Port-
child sex abuse. The alleged land. Federal charges have
crimes occurred between also been iled against Eide
January 2015 and February. since the alleged crimes
Eide was originally crossed state lines.
indicted on 16 charges
Eide is due back in Cir-
related to online sex abuse, cuit Court next month for
but after further investiga- an early resolution confer-
tion, the District Attorney’s ence. He remains in custody
Ofice added the physical on $250,000 bail.
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
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Community
Emergency
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Dr. Althea Rizzo , Geologic Hazards Program Manager | Oregon Emergency Management
Tyree Wilde , Warning Coordination Meteorologist | National Oceanic & Atmospheric
•
Patrick Corcoran , Coastal Natural Hazards Specialist | Oregon State University, Oregon Sea
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posal to test crabs from dif-
ferent regions to see if there
is a different response, but
we have not yet started those
experiments,” McElhany said.
Charges added against
man accused of sexually
abusing teenage girl
Administration
Grant
Neal Bond , Protection Unity Forester | Oregon Department of Forestry
A question and answer period will immediately follow each presentation.
A final question and answer period will be available at the conclusion of the evening.
Tables with handouts, printed materials and examples of emergency preparedness tools and kits
will be available in the Lobby.
City and County Emergency Management and Response personnel
will be available to answer questions and provide information.
Congratulate the
Astoria High School
Lady Fishermen
winners of the
OSAA 4A Track
Championship
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