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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2016
Recreational pot shops licensed in Oregon
One retailer
was approved
for Astoria
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — Oregonians can
now buy marijuana for recre-
ational use at shops intended
for that purpose.
The Oregon Liquor Con-
trol Commission on Fri-
day approved the licenses for
26 retailers around the state,
meeting a key deadline almost
two years after voters passed a
ballot measure legalizing pot.
“It’s a pretty exciting day
for the OLCC,” Steven Marks,
the executive director of the
commission charged with reg-
ulating recreational marijuana,
said in a conference call with
journalists.
October had been set as
the month in which retail store
licensing would start under the
commission’s timeline. Medi-
cal marijuana stores have been
permitted to sell recreational
marijuana since last October.
Such dispensaries won’t be
allowed to sell to recreational
users after December.
The approved retail shops
are located in the Portland
area, and in southern, central
and western Oregon, includ-
ing along the coast. One
of the shops was The Far-
macy in Astoria’s Uppertown
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
Workers harvest marijuana plants in a rural area near Corvallis on Friday.
neighborhood.
“It’s exciting,” said Nicho-
las Palazzo, co-owner of The
Farmacy with Omar Guerrero.
“It’s relaxing, because the work
was … pretty intense, as far as
paperwork and regulations.”
Palazzo said the store had
to switch its entire inventory
from the health authority to
the commission’s seed-to-sale
tracking system. Staff also had
to ensure all products were put
in child-proof containers.
“Ours has a special clip”
on the zipper, Palazzo said.
“We had customers coming
back, trying to fi gure out how
to open the bag. We found one
bag in the parking lot torn up,
because the customer couldn’t
fi gure out how to open it.”
Palazzo said some peo-
ple didn’t know about the Sat-
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The Spokesman-Review
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SPOKANE, Wash. — A
federal judge is forcing dis-
cussion of a radical step to
save endangered salmon:
taking out four dams on the
Lower Snake River.
The public will get a
chance to weigh in at meet-
ings throughout the North-
west starting next month.
“Scientists tell us that
removing the four Lower
Snake dams is the single most
important action we could
take to restore salmon in the
entire Columbia-Snake river
basin,” said Sam Mace of
Save Our Wild Salmon.
The four dams produce
about 5 percent of the North-
west’s hydroelectric power.
They allow barges to ship
goods between Lewiston and
Portland. But they also ham-
per salmon migration to some
of the best remaining fi sh
habitat.
“We think those dams
need to stay in place because
of the multiple benefi ts they
provide,” said Terry Flores,
executive director of North-
west River Partners, which
represents public utilities, port
districts and farm groups.
DEATH
Oct. 1, 2016
PINKNEY, Byron Pink-
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The Sheriff’s Offi ce is ask-
ing the public for assistance
in fi nding anyone who was in
contact with Vinge within the
past month, especially anyone
traveling with him.
Also of interest are Vinge’s
vehicles: a white 1993 Alle-
gro Bay m otor home with Ore-
gon license plate HC33885
or a dark maroon 1991 Lin-
coln Continental with Oregon
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MONDAY
Knappa School Board, 5:30
p.m., special meeting, Knappa
High School library, 41535 Old
U.S. Highway 30.
Youngs River Lewis & Clark
Water District Board, 6
p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway 101
Business.
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
TUESDAY
Seaside Community Center
Commission, 10 a.m., 1225
Avenue A.
Port of Astoria Commission,
3:30 p.m., executive session
(closed to public), 5 p.m.,
workshop, new Port offi ces, 10
Pier 1 Suite 209.
Clatsop Diking Improvement
Company No. 9 Board, 6 p.m.,
regular meeting, then execu-
tive session, Lewis & Clark Vol-
unteer Fire Department, 34571
U.S. Highway 101 Business.
Miles Crossing Sanitary
Sewer District Board, 6
p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway 101
Business.
Seaside Planning Commis-
sion, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Cannon Beach City Council, 7
p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
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Vinge was last seen at his
Agate Beach area home in
mid-September. His two vehi-
cles are known to have been in
Astoria as late as Sept. 24.
Anyone with informa-
tion is asked to contact local
law enforcement or Sheriff’s
Offi ce Detective Ryan Hum-
phrey at 503-325-2061 or
rhumphrey@co.clatsop.or.us.
Baker
30/55
Ontario
38/63
Bend
40/54
Medford
46/63
Oct 30
John Day
45/58
La Grande
36/58
industry, and with police hav-
ing to keep their eyes on so
many stores. Besides The Far-
macy, there are four operating
dispensaries, along with three
in the planning stages. Many
are trying to go recreational.
The commission has also
licensed dozens of recreational
producers. A grower in Jewell
was the fi rst approved in Clat-
sop County. Palazzo said The
Clatsop County Sheriff’s Offi ce
investigating suspicious death
The Clatsop County Sher-
iff’s Offi ce is investigating the
death of a man who was found
near U.S. Highway 30 about
four miles east of Astoria Fri-
day afternoon.
The man was identifi ed as
Howard Daniel Vinge, 71, of
Newport. His death is consid-
ered to be suspicious in nature.
Roseburg
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Oct 22
High
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Prineville
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Lebanon
50/61
Eugene
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Last
Pendleton
46/62
The Dalles
46/67
Portland
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Sunset tonight ........................... 6:51 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 7:18 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 9:47 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 8:29 p.m.
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ASTORIA
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Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. 0.02"
Month to date ................................... 0.58"
Normal month to date ....................... 0.22"
Year to date .................................... 43.55"
Normal year to date ........................ 40.71"
Oct 8
FRIDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 60°/46°
Normal high/low ........................... 65°/46°
Record high ............................ 85° in 1980
Record low ............................. 34° in 1968
First
THURSDAY
urday opening, despite the
fi nancial incentives. The tax
on marijuana sold from medi-
cal dispensaries is 25 percent.
Under recreational dispensa-
ries, the tax is 17 percent.
Voters in Astoria will
decide in November whether
to also tack on a 3 percent
tax for local revenue. Palazzo
said the city deserves it, hav-
ing been so welcoming to the
Farmacy Gardens LLC, his
and Guerrero’s grow opera-
tion, is close to being licensed.
Ten testing laboratories
have also been licensed, Marks
said. Recently, the head of the
agency that accredits labs
that tests pot for pesticides,
potency and other elements
complained that the agency
was overburdened and at the
point of collapse.
Marks said those issues
seem to have been resolved
and that the Oregon Environ-
mental Laboratory Accredita-
tion Program, known as ORE-
LAP, made a “heroic effort” in
dealing with lab accreditation
applications.
Marijuana sold legally
in Oregon had been tested
before, but now the labs must
be accredited, and the packag-
ing labeled with the lab results.
Products previously bought
by retailers and sitting in back
rooms and on shelves can be
sold through March 2017. But
items that shops buy after Oct.
1 must be tested under the new,
more regulated system, Marks
said.
The commission is also
focusing on keeping names
and labels on cannabis prod-
ucts from being attractive to
children, Marks said.
Oregon, Alaska, Washing-
ton state and Colorado have
legalized recreational mar-
ijuana, and it is on the bal-
lot in several other states in
November.
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