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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2017
Legal battle won’t stop US does not need warrant to
subpoena Oregon drug data
pot sales in Nevada
Rules added to
protect children
By SCOTT SONNER
Associated Press
RENO, Nev. — A lengthy
legal battle over the alcohol
industry’s exclusive rights
to distribute marijuana in
Nevada won’t affect the
state’s plans to begin rec-
reational pot sales at medi-
cal dispensaries on Saturday,
state offi cials said.
The Nevada Tax Com-
mission also approved emer-
gency regulations Mon-
day with stricter labeling
and packaging requirements
aimed at protecting children.
Among other things, the rules
prohibit edible pot prod-
ucts modeled after products
marketed primarily to chil-
dren or bearing likenesses
of animals, fruit or cartoon
characters.
The marijuana indus-
try is eager for the fast-ap-
proaching July 1 kickoff of
recreational sales in Nevada,
where demand from tour-
ists is expected to eventually
make the state’s market big-
ger than other states where
it’s legal, including Colorado,
Oregon and Washington.
The state intends to appeal
a Carson City judge’s order
that only alcohol wholesalers
can obtain pot distribution
licenses, Stephanie Klap-
stein, Taxation Department
spokeswoman,
confi rmed
Monday.
It won’t happen on an
emergency basis, and it won’t
affect retail sales starting Sat-
urday, Klapstein said.
State regulators argued
they have the authority to
issue distributor licenses to
existing medical dispensaries
if there aren’t enough appli-
cants from the alcohol indus-
try to meet demand. Judge
James Wilson disagreed.
“Nobody said they are
going to just roll over and
accept the court’s fi nding.
It’s a fairly big issue,” said
Michael Willden, chief of
staff to Gov. Brian Sandoval.
But that fi ght is for
another day, he said, because
Sandoval has decided they
don’t want to pursue that
matter through an emergency
regulation.
In the meantime, properly
licensed medical dispensaries
can sell off their stockpiles for
recreational use and expect to
have enough supply to meet
demand for three weeks or
longer. The state anticipates
at least some alcohol whole-
salers will be licensed to dis-
tribute pot by then.
Ruling reverses
judge’s fi nding
on database
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — The 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled Monday that the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Agency
does not need a court order to
subpoena a prescription drug
database kept by the state of
Oregon, but the ruling did not
specify whether those sub-
poenas would violate consti-
tutional protections.
The ruling reverses a 2014
judge’s ruling fi nding that the
agency must obtain warrants
to access the database, which
Oregon uses to help health
care providers identify abuse.
The appeals panel, however,
said nothing prevents Ore-
gon from challenging individ-
ual warrantless subpoenas in
court “in light of the particu-
larly important privacy inter-
Crew rescues man after sailboat capsizes
Associated Press
DEER ISLAND — U.S.
Coast Guard offi cials say
one man was rescued after
his sailboat capsized on the
Columbia River near Deer
Island.
Coast Guard Station
Portland
crewmembers
responded Monday evening
after people on a tug boat
reported that the approx-
imately 12-foot sailboat
capsized.
The U.S. Coast Guard
says the man was tossed a
life ring and pulled onto their
boat before he was taken to
Kalama, Washington, and to
a local hospital.
The Coast Guard says
the boater was reportedly
hypothermic.
Authorities in Columbia
County towed the capsized
vessel to shore.
WEDNESDAY
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FRIDAY
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Lottie Holden
Cannon Beach
March 12, 1962 — June 22, 2017
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some sun
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Lottie Holden
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Tillamook
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Salem
51/76
Newport
51/62
SUN AND MOON
Full
Last
July 8
Coos Bay
54/65
New
July 16
July 23
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Time
11:43 a.m.
none
Low
-0.8 ft.
Ontario
60/88
Bend
46/78
Burns
45/81
Klamath Falls
46/81
Lakeview
46/82
Ashland
56/85
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Bend
Brookings
Eugene
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June 18, 2017
BONNER, Jenna and
Brett, of Astoria, a boy,
Tucker Lee Bonner, born at
Columbia Memorial Hos-
pital in Astoria. Grandpar-
ents are Brent and Lane Wike
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tions at milepost 48. Driv-
ers are advised to use Oregon
Route 53 and Miami River
Road.
The state said the sink-
hole is about 3 feet by 3 feet.
Crews are working to deter-
mine the cause.
of Cullowhee, North Caro-
lina, Robin Bonner of Gree-
ley, Colorado and Randy and
Lesa Weathers of Red Bluff,
California.
June 16, 2017
BRIM, Britaney and
Michael, of Seaside, a girl,
Jaycee Taylor Brim, born at
Providence Seaside Hospital.
Grandparents are Linda and
Michael Brim of Astoria, Ger-
ald Dowker of Colorado and
Beckey Dowker of Michigan.
died in Longview. No service
is planned at this time.
MARSH, Patrick, 74, of
Seaside, died in Seaside.
Hughes-Ransom
Mortu-
ary & Crematory in Astoria/
Seaside is in charge of the
arrangements.
BETTS, Edward Leon,
75, of Astoria, died in Port-
land. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary in Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
June 26, 2017
MILLER,
Clara,
91, of Astoria, died in
Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-
Layton
Mortuary
in
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
DEATHS
June 16, 2017
WARREN,
Adelbert
Malcolm, 90, of Hammond,
died in Hammond. Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary of Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
June 25, 2017
DINWIDDIE, Beverly
M., 76, of Longview, Wash-
ington, formerly of Astoria,
LOTTERIES
TUESDAY
Astoria City Council, noon, special meeting on work-
ers’ compensation insurance, City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Clatsop Care Health District Board, noon, budget
meeting for fi scal year beginning July 1, 947 Olney Ave.
Astoria Library Board, 5:30 p.m., Flag Room, 450 10th
St.
Clatsop County Fair Board, 5:30 p.m., special meet-
ing, Fair & Expo, 92937 Walluski Loop, Astoria.
Warrenton City Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S.
Main Ave.
APPLIANCE
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A sinkhole has closed
U.S. Highway 101 south of
Wheeler.
The state Department of
Transportation said the high-
way is closed in both direc-
PUBLIC MEETINGS
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
IN
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
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Baker
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REGIONAL CITIES
Astoria / Port Docks
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108
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John Day
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DUII
• At 2:08 a.m. Friday,
Gregory F. Sage, 34, of Sea-
side, was arrested by the Sea-
side Police Department on
the 2100 block of North Hol-
laday Drive and charged with
driving under the infl uence
of intoxicants and reckless
driving.
La Grande
48/78
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Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
City
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Washington, DC
she wrote for the Cannon Beach
Gazette, which was managed and
edited by her father, the late Don L.
Holden.
Holden is survived by her mother,
Joan, and many friends.
A memorial will be held at 1 p.m.
Sunday, July 23, in Les Shirley Park
in Cannon Beach.
Highway 101 closed near
Wheeler for sinkhole
ON THE RECORD
Roseburg
53/81
Brookings
51/70
UNDER THE SKY
High
8.5 ft.
8.1 ft.
Lebanon
49/77
Medford
58/87
Tonight's Sky: Low in the southeast is Antares of
Scorpion.
Time
4:53 a.m.
6:15 p.m.
Prineville
44/81
Eugene
48/77
Sunset tonight ........................... 9:11 p.m.
Sunrise Wednesday .................... 5:27 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 9:48 a.m.
Moonset today ......................... 11:58 p.m.
Pendleton
54/82
The Dalles
58/81
Portland
55/76
Precipitation
Monday ............................................ Trace
Month to date ................................... 2.44"
Normal month to date ....................... 2.32"
Year to date .................................... 49.57"
Normal year to date ........................ 35.68"
June 30
Lottie Holden, 55, passed away
June 22.
Holden, a graduate of Dartmouth
College, moved to Cannon Beach in
the mid-1990s to help care for her
parents and four grandparents. She
worked as a journalist for New West
and other magazines in California.
When Lottie moved to the area,
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 65°/56°
Normal high/low ........................... 65°/51°
Record high ............................ 85° in 2006
Record low ............................. 41° in 1976
First
A similar Utah case may
help to resolve that ques-
tion, said Nathan Wessler, the
ACLU attorney who argued
the Oregon appeal.
The case began in 2012
when the DEA sought the
records of one patient and two
prescribing physicians as a
part of an investigation. The
state argued it could not be
compelled to disclose health
information about a patient
without a federal court order.
Oregon
lawmak-
ers approved the prescrip-
tion database in 2009 and it
became fully operational two
years later. A pharmacy must
electronically report infor-
mation about the quantity
and type of drugs dispensed,
identifying information about
patients and the names of doc-
tors prescribed medication.
About 7 million prescrip-
tion records are uploaded to
Oregon’s system annually,
according to the 2014 opin-
ion on the case written by
U.S. District Judge Ancer L.
Haggerty.
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est implicated here.”
The ruling did not resolve
the question of whether the
DEA’s administrative subpoe-
nas violate constitutional pro-
tections against unreasonable
search and seizure outlined in
the Fourth Amendment of the
U.S. Constitution.
The Oregon Prescrip-
tion Drug Monitoring Pro-
gram sued the DEA in 2012
over the administrative sub-
poenas for patient prescrip-
tion records because under
state law police must get court
orders to check the same data-
base. The DEA argued that
the federal Controlled Sub-
stances Act allowed it to
access the information with-
out a warrant.
The American Civil Liber-
ties Union joined in the case
to litigate the broader issue
of whether the requests vio-
lated Fourth Amendment
protections.
The appeals court said
that the ACLU does not have
standing in the case and did
not address that issue.
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