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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Voting ‘yes’ could cost Cannon Beach tax revenue
Uncertain future
for pot sales
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH —The
future of cannabis in Can-
non Beach has a number, and
it’s not 420. Measure 4-179
prohibiting the sale of rec-
reational marijuana in Can-
non Beach is oficially on the
November ballot, with the
question: “Shall recreational
marijuana producers, proces-
sors, wholesalers, and retailers be
prohibited in Cannon Beach?”
“Language was approved
for the ballot,” Cannon
Beach City Manager Brant
Kucera said Wednesday.
“This bill is to disallow.”
A separate vote initiated by
the city, Measure 4-182, will
ask residents if a 3 percent tax
should be applied to recreational
marijuana sales.
Measure 91, which legalized
recreational marijuana in Ore-
gon for people 21 and older, was
approved by 63 percent of Can-
non Beach voters in 2014.
In early July, the City Coun-
cil voted 4-1 to adopt an ordi-
nance with time, place and man-
ner restrictions for medical and
recreational marijuana busi-
nesses. Zones are downtown
from Ecola Creek on the north
to Washington Street on the
south, midtown from Harrison
Street on the north to Elliot Way
on the south, and Tolovana Park
from Delta Street on the north to
the northern boundary of Sand
Castle Condominiums on the
south.
Later that month, a group of
residents successfully submit-
ted a petition with 155 certi-
ied signatures to put an initia-
tive on the ballot asking voters
if recreational marijuana shops
should be banned. Jeremy
Randolph, Marlene Laws,
Nancy Giasson, Gary Laws
and Molly Edison formed the
committee that brought the
opt-out initiative to the city.
The ballot measure is
summarized on the county
Board of Elections website.
“State law allows operation
of licensed recreational mar-
ijuana producers, processors,
wholesalers and retailers,”
reads the summary. “State law
also provides that the citizens
may put forth an initiative to
the voters to prohibit the estab-
lishment of any of those facil-
ities within the city’s bound-
aries. The citizen petitioners
have put forth such an initia-
tive to the voters of Cannon
Beach in this election.”
If approved, the city will
be ineligible to receive distri-
bution of state marijuana tax
revenue and unable to impose
local cannabis taxes or fees.
Under state law, a city that
adopts an ordinance prohibit-
ing the establishment of one or
more types of marijuana facili-
ties in the city may not impose
a local tax on the sale of mari-
juana items.
The city’s separate local
tax measure imposing a 3 per-
cent tax on the sale of rec-
reational marijuana would
become operative only if the
tax measure is approved by
voters and the measure pro-
hibiting marijuana facilities
fails.
The tax would be collected
at the point of sale and remit-
ted by the retailers.
Apparently cannabis retail-
ers are waiting until after the
election before applying for
a business license. “I’ve had
maybe two calls in the last six
months,” Kucera said.
In Jewell, a license to grow Warrenton woman sentenced
State approves
commercial
marijuana
grow operation
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
The state has approved
Clatsop County’s irst com-
mercial marijuana grow
operation.
The Oregon Liquor Con-
trol Commission recently
approved Greenworks Farms,
located in Jewell and run by
husband and wife Joe Ander-
son and Cathleen Harwood.
“The process, it’s lengthy
for sure,” he said. “There’s a
lot of documents. You need to
have all your ducks in a row.”
Greenworks Farms is
authorized to grow canna-
bis on up to 5,000 square feet
of indoor production. Ander-
son said he spent months
and about $20,000 getting a
1,000-square-foot, state-ap-
proved grow facility. Require-
ments include a security sys-
tem and surveillance video
that can be backed up for 90
days. “There’s no place you
can go in the facility that’s not
on camera,” he said.
Greenworks’ marijuana
will be tagged and tracked
from seed to sale. Anderson
said it prevents marijuana
from being diverted to the
black market.
Despite the dificulties
in applying, he said the state
was supportive throughout
the process.
“The OLCC seemed very
helpful,” he said. “They don’t
want to stand in the way of
this.”
Anderson, a former cab-
inet maker who injured his
back and started using mar-
ijuana as pain medicine, has
been growing medical mari-
juana since 2001. He and his
wife have grown for other
medical patients.
Anderson said he is proud
to be part of the Oregon
movement beyond prohibi-
tion. He also hopes Green-
works Farms will prove a
lucrative business.
Waiting on buyers
But Greenworks Farms,
like other approved commer-
cial growers, is waiting on
buyers.
A state law passed last
year allowed medical mar-
ijuana dispensaries to sell
marijuana to recreational cus-
tomers through December. As
of next year, medical dispen-
saries will again be limited to
members of the Oregon Med-
ical Marijuana Program and
their caregivers.
The state Liquor Control
Commission started taking
applications for recreational
marijuana stores in January
and aims to have them oper-
ational by the end of the year.
“We all right now are in
the waiting game, waiting
on the OLCC to review all
the applications, and waiting
for conirmation to go for-
ward,” said Gary Reynolds,
co-owner of Sweet Relief
Natural Medicine.
The dispensary, the irst to
open in the county, now has
two locations in Astoria and
one each in Tillamook, Scap-
poose and St. Helens. Reyn-
olds said the company has
applied to go recreational at
all but one of its ive locations.
Other grow sites
Reynolds said Sweet
Relief is also one of the com-
panies trying to establish its
own commercial growing
operation outside city limits.
The state has received
six applications so far from
groups wanting to grow mar-
ijuana commercially in the
county, including Green-
works Farms, and six more
applications from medical
dispensaries wanting to go
recreational.
The Astoria Planning
Commission has signed off
on two commercial grow
operations within city limits.
for stealing from her father
Took money
and a truck
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
A 35-year-old Warren-
ton woman was sentenced to
five years in prison Wednes-
day for stealing about
$29,000 and a pickup truck
from her father while he was
in the hospital.
After a trial in Cir-
cuit Court last month, a
jury found Kaili Jo Rob-
erts guilty on eight counts.
The charges include three
counts of first-degree crim-
inal mistreatment, aggra-
vated first-degree theft, two
counts of first-degree theft,
second-degree theft and
first-degree forgery.
Roberts
could
have
received a shorter sentence, but
it was discovered that she lied
while testifying during trial.
She claimed a large amount of
the money she stole was in a
safety security box at a bank.
When the box was searched, it
was completely empty.
Instead of a separate
charge for perjury, Roberts
received an enhancement on
her sentence.
Roberts’ defense at trial
was that her father
the power of attor-
told her to go ahead
ney gave her for
and use his credit
her own gain,”
card accounts and
Deputy District
his money to shop
Attorney
Beau
and buy items. Her
Peterson said.
father, James Rob-
James
Rob-
erts, testiied at
erts spoke at the
trial that he turned
sentencing hear-
the power of attor-
ing Wednesday,
ney over to her to Kaili Jo Roberts and expressed his
make sure she paid
love and support
his rent and car
for his daugh-
payments, not to go out and ter, despite what she did to
spend his money. The crimes him.
occurred between February
“I love you a lot. I’m
and April 2015.
sorry this happened,” he
“She used the authority said.
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