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East Oregonian
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Committee talks origin of legal weed, ‘immaculate conception’
ijuana comes from — or “whether
this Legislature wants to allow us to
bring for a limited amount of time
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months, Oregonians age 21 and etc. over from the medical side, so
over can legally grow and consume that’s half immaculate conception.”
Patridge said if lawmakers do not
recreational marijuana under Mea-
sure 91 passed last fall. Retail pot address this question, it could put
stores will not open until sometime the entire marijuana industry at risk.
Colorado required people to obtain
in 2016.
The fast-approaching July 1 le- marijuana seeds and starts from
galization date prompted the Ore- medical growers, while Washington
gon Liquor Control Commission assumed immaculate conception.
Lawmakers did not give a de-
to ask state lawmakers for direction
on where people should legally ob- ¿QLWLYH DQVZHU RQ WKH TXHVWLRQ
tain these cannabis seeds and plant Wednesday night, but Burdick said
they should address it in legisla-
starts.
Until a legal recreational crop is tion. Committee co-chair Rep. Ann
grown there will be no legal source Lininger, D-Lake Oswego, said law-
of seeds or starts for recreational makers should consider the growing
seasons for people who cultivate
marijuana growers.
Rob Patridge, Klamath County marijuana outdoors, because legis-
District Attorney and chairman of lation on the issue could determine
the OLCC Board of Commission- whether they have an opportunity to
ers, asked lawmakers at a hearing contribute to the original legal stock.
The OLCC’s request for guid-
Wednesday night whether they want
to assume “immaculate conception” ance on the origin of legal marijua-
— essentially not address the ques- na was one of 52 issues the agency
tion of where legal recreational mar- asked lawmakers to clarify. OLCC
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
needs to begin writing rules to im-
plement Measure 91, and commit-
tee co-chair Sen. Ginny Burdick,
D-Portland, said the committee will
include many of these time-sensitive
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major bills. Many OLCC recom-
mendations are technical and will be
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ers will fast-track, Burdick said.
“After tonight, co-chair Lininger
and I will get together and compile
a bill that will probably err in the
direction of being more inclusive of
issue areas in the hopes to getting as
much into this bill to provide OLCC
with the direction they need as they
go through their rulemaking pro-
cess,” Burdick said.
OLCC recommendations that
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er policy issues will be included in
a “main omnibus” bill the commit-
tee will produce later in the session,
Burdick said.
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Biomass electricity plant looks for energy buyer
BRIEFLY
Oregon job
numbers strong,
except when it
comes to raises
House approves
bill banning
gay conversion
therapy
SALEM (AP) —
Oregon’s unemployment
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again, amid signs that
businesses are becoming
quick to hire but remain
slow to grant raises.
The state Employment
Department said Tuesday
the jobless rate dropped
half a percentage point in
February, to 5.8 percent.
The agency says the
number of long-term
unemployed people
continues to fall.
The number of workers
in part-time jobs who
would rather work full time
has also fallen.
Nonfarm payroll
employment was up again
in February, by 2,400.
That’s the smallest increase
in the past half year,
though.
And wage gains are
slim, according to the
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the past twelve months
the average private sector
wage gains amount to
about 18 cents an hour, or
.8 percent.
SALEM (AP) — The
Oregon House voted
Tuesday to outlaw a therapy
that purports to change the
sexual orientation or gender
identity of young people,
with several lawmakers
arguing the practice has
been discredited and can
cause irreparable mental
and emotional damage.
The bill would make it
illegal for social workers
or licensed mental
health professionals
such as psychologists or
psychiatrists to practice
what’s called conversion
therapy on children younger
than 18. The bill is backed
by Basic Rights Oregon,
a gay and transgender
advocacy group.
Proponents of
the measure said the
therapy can lead to
anxiety, depression and
destructive behaviors in
children. Groups such as
the American Medical
Association and the
American Psychological
Association have also come
out against the therapy.
to heat water, create steam
and turn a turbine.
Interested power com-
LA
PINE
—
A panies would likely be in
wood-burning power plant California, where the state
remains a possibility for La requires an increasing per-
Pine, with the city now tak- centage of its power to come
ing the lead on the project from “greener” sources such
from Deschutes County and as biomass, wind and solar.
Biogreen has been con-
the company behind it wait-
ing for a change in the energy sidering a biomass plant in
La Pine, which is surrounded
market.
“It’s just been on hold due E\IRUHVWIRUPRUHWKDQ¿YH
to market conditions,” said years. The company has held
Rob Broberg, president of land and building permits
Biogreen Sustainable Ener- for the plant with Deschutes
gy Co., based in Vancouver, County, but those have ex-
Washington. “And we plan pired.
Tom Anderson, Deschutes
on holding out until we are
able to market and sell pow- County administrator, said
future dealings will be with
er.”
7KH FRPSDQ\ PXVW ¿QG the city of La Pine. The plant
an energy buyer to make the would be in the La Pine In-
planned plant economically dustrial Park, which was
viable, said Rick Allen, La county-run and predated the
incorporation of the city in
Pine city manager.
³7KH\QHHGWR¿QGDSRZ- 2007.
“Now that the city is in-
er company that wants to buy
their power,” he said. “That’s corporated, the county felt it
was important to give the city
really the issue.”
The $75 million, 25-mega- a little more self-determina-
watt biomass plant would tion as to what kind of proj-
produce enough electricity to ects go into the (industrial)
power about 19,000 homes, park there,” Anderson said.
Broberg said. The plant Last fall the county and city
would burn wood — limbs reached an agreement for the
and other scrap left over after city to manage the remain-
logging, debris from thinning ing land in the 320-acre park
projects and urban waste — while the county still owns
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potential biofuels plant in
Lakeview. The plant, pro-
posed by Red Rock Biofuels
in Fort Collins, Colorado,
would turn biomass into jet
fuel and diesel, which would
be shipped by train. The
questions include how much
air pollution the plant would
create and how safe the rail-
way shipping would be.
Calling the plan for bio-
mass in La Pine a “very
valuable project,” Biogreen’s
Broberg said the power plant
would put off less smoke
than wood burned in open air.
Along with securing a
power buyer for the planned
La Pine plant, hurdles left
for Biogreen to clear include
water and labor. The plant
would use about 300 gallons
per minute on the hottest days
of the year. Allen said that’s
how much the whole city of
La Pine currently uses on a
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the property. About half of
the acres are still available.
The power plant would sit
on 19½ acres, Broberg said.
About 20 people would work
at the plant and another 65
or so would work in the for-
est, gathering wood to burn.
Given the number of thinning
projects in the forests around
La Pine aimed at reducing
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steady supply of wood.
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group opposed to the planned
plant in La Pine, Mike Ewall,
executive director of the
Pennsylvania-based Ener-
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The fast-approaching July 1 legalization date prompted the Ore-
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tion on where people should legally obtain these cannabis seeds
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