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East Oregonian
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
After crash on White House lawn, Pot shop off limits
Obama urges move on drone rules to military members
“Marijuana
OLYMPIA, Wash (AP)
— Dozens of recreation-
al marijuana businesses
in Washington state have
been sent letters from the
military saying the shops
are off limits to all mem-
bers of the armed forces,
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The letters, dated Jan.
21, say military person-
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prohibited from entering
such a business unless its
owner agrees to stop sell-
ing substances similar to
marijuana.
A total of 86 letters
have been sent to business-
es with licenses to sell rec-
reational marijuana under
voter-approved Initiative
502, said Joe Kubistek, a
spokesman for Joint Base
Lewis-McChord.
“Despite the passage
of Initiative 502, the use,
possession, manufacture,
or distribution of mari-
juana remains illegal for
all service members, at all
times and locations,” Kub-
istek said in an email.
Hilary Bricken, a Seat-
tle attorney, said two of the
marijuana businesses she
represents had received the
letters. She said the shops
have no responsibility to
inquire about the military
status of their customers,
but noted that some opera-
tors were concerned about
repercussions if they don’t
respond.
“The Army is totally
powerless to do anything
to these businesses, but
that doesn’t stop my cli-
ents from freaking out,”
she said.
Kubistek stressed that
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cation to the businesses.
“The Armed Forc-
es Disciplinary Control
Board recognizes these
businesses were estab-
lished for the purpose of
selling and distributing
marijuana, within state
guidelines, and had no in-
tention of interfering with
their business operations,”
By JOSH LEDERMAN
and CALVIN WOODWARD
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Barack
Obama says the wayward quadcopter
that crashed harmlessly on the White
House grounds shows that the U.S. must
update its laws to manage the expanding
frontier of commercial and consumer
drones and ensure only good things come
in these small packages.
It’s his own administration that has
lagged on the matter. Both Congress
and the drone industry have pressed for
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of civilian drone use grows apace and
the small unmanned craft become ever
cheaper.
Obama, in a CNN interview from In-
dia, likened the 2-foot-long quadcopter
that crashed on the White House lawn to
one that could be bought at Radio Shack,
which lists them from $50 to $700.
“We don’t yet have the legal structures
and the architecture both globally and
within individual countries to manage
them the way that we need to,” Obama
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start providing some sort of framework
that ensures that we get the good and
minimize the bad.”
The Secret Service released no further
details on the drone operator whose hap-
less adventure in the middle of the night
Monday set off an emergency White
House lockdown. The man stepped
forward hours after the episode and ap-
peared to convince investigators that the
extraordinary breach of presidential se-
curity — and of existing rules for drone
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risks, already becoming common, of
hobbyist drones going astray in populat-
ed places or near airports.
The Federal Aviation Administration,
pressed by Congress, had wanted to re-
lease proposed rules for small drones by
the end of 2014. To the dismay of the
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Members of the Secret Service search the grounds of the North Lawn of the
White House in Washington, Monday.
drone industry, that process is now drag-
ging into 2015. Even after rules are pro-
posed, it is likely to be two or three years
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drones if they keep them under 400 feet
in altitude, 5 miles from an airport, al-
ways within sight and not within a highly
populated area. Commercial use is large-
ly banned, with only a small number of
companies permitted to use them for in-
spections and aerial photography.
Lethal drones have become an im-
portant part of the U.S. arsenal, used to
attack enemy positions. Their civilian
cousins can be used for inspecting crops
and weather conditions, conducting sur-
veillance in other many forms and even
delivering packages. “Incredibly useful
functions,” Obama said.
Congress wanted rules for small
drones in place last year and a larger
framework by this September. The FAA
has been waiting for the White House to
approve a proposal for rules that would
clear the way for small, commercial
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drones aren’t expected anytime soon.
Separately, the White House has been
AP Photo/US Secret Service
This handout photo provided by the
U.S. Secret Service shows the drone
that crashed Monday onto the White
House grounds in Washington.
working on an executive order to address
privacy issues raised by drones and had
expected to release that order six months
ago. But that has not happened.
Obama told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria
he’s “assigned some of the relevant agen-
cies to start talking to stakeholders and
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chitecture in place that makes sure that
these things aren’t dangerous and that
they’re not violating people’s privacy.”
43k Oregonians still waiting on Medicaid applications
PORTLAND (AP) —
About 43,000 low-income
Oregonians are waiting for
their Medicaid applications
to be fully processed, state
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Oregon
Health
Authority says some of the
applications came through the
federal government’s portal
and have been determined
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have not been entered in the
state’s system; others are
still incomplete and stuck in
limbo.
About 30,000 applications
in the backlog came in through
the federal HealthCare.Gov
portal. Another 13,000 are
new applications that were
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said
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Kimberly
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who are applying and re-
applying, and by a switch in
the state’s enrollment system.
Oregon previously used
software developed as part
of its insurance exchange,
Cover Oregon, to make
eligibility determinations for
Medicaid.
Oregon ditched the glitch-
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last spring and decided to
switch to the federal portal.
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needed to apply or re-apply
for the Oregon Health Plan
used the federal portal.
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are missing income or other
key information, so the state
must reach those individuals
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he wrote.
The letter states that
shops have 30 days to
prevent evidence to the
Armed Forces Disci-
plinary Control Board at
Joint Base Lewis-Mc-
Chord — which oversees
military personnel in the
region — that the busi-
nesses agree to stop sell-
ing the substances to mil-
itary personnel.
However,
Kubistek
noted that the letters are
similar to ones the military
is required to send to any
businesses deemed to be
harmful to members of the
military, and that the onus
is on military members to
know they should not to
go there, not for shops to
be required to determine
whether their customers
are military or not.
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nesses on the base’s web-
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businesses when the board
determines that certain
conditions exist involving
such things as drugs, pros-
titution,
discriminatory
practices, or liquor viola-
tions like serving people
who are underage.
“The intention of that
notice or timeframe is to
give them the opportuni-
ty to rebut the off-limits
designation, if they want
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phone interview.
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