December 16, 2015
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Madeline Martinez is the owner of the World Famous Cannabis Café, one of Portland’s marijuana
clubs that might have to shutter its doors come Jan. 1 under new provisions of Oregon’s Clean Air Act
which expand a prohibition against smoking tobacco in public places to include cannabis.
Cannabis Club Owners Scramble
Look for ways to
keep doors open
in New Year
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A group of Portland cannabis
club owners is scrambling to fig-
ure out how to keep their doors
open after recently being informed
they were in violation of Oregon’s
Clean Air Act, a law more known
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under new provisions of the Act
which begin in 2016. The busi-
nesses allow for smoking mari-
juana on site but are not cannabis
dispensaries where pot is sold. If
they can’t find a way around the
law, their doors will be forced to
close.
House Bill 2546 was passed in
the most recent Oregon Legisla-
ture as a way to deal with emerg-
ing technology like vaporizers and
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Activists Shut Down Board
PSU students
say response to
racism falls short
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About 50 student activists pro-
testing racism at Portland State
University shouted down mem-
bers of the college’s board of trust-
ees Thursday, pushing them out of
a planned meeting and prompting
the chair to reconvene the group
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for prohibiting smoking tobacco
in public.
Nicki Gates, owner of the Oth-
er Spot in southeast Portland, has
been meeting with other marijua-
na club owners and local attorneys
hoping that somehow together
they can get on the right side of
the law by Jan. 1.
Her private social club and at
least two others, the World Fa-
mous Cannabis Café, and North-
west Cannabis Club, are threat-
ened with fines up to $500 per day
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by phone.
Following up on a list of de-
mands made earlier this year, the
protesters asked for more support
for students of color on campus,
the disarming of campus security,
lower tuition costs, and raised oth-
er concerns.
The students charged that PSU
President Wim Wiewel was not
doing enough to address the cre-
ation of a so-called “PSU White
Student Union” on the Internet,
a website that can make students
of color feel unwelcome. The
postings are not sanctioned by the
college and are similar to sites that
have appeared online at the Uni-
versity of Missouri and other col-
leges where racial protests have
occurred.
Scott Gallagher, Portland State
University’s director of communi-
cations, issued a statement on be-
half of the school Friday outlining
recent attempts by Wiewel to ad-
dress the students’ concerns.
He said the president is work-
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