NATION/WORLD
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Ferrioli suggests
letting dispensaries
sell recreational pot
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Licensed
growers and retailers won’t
be operating when recre-
ational pot becomes legal
July 1, so state
Sen. Ted Ferrio-
li, R-John Day, is
working on legis-
lation that would
allow
Oregon’s
existing medical
marijuana dispen-
saries to tempo-
rarily serve recre-
ational customers Ferrioli
and collect taxes
on those sales as required by
state law.
Ferrioli’s concept would
also temporarily allow med-
ical pot growers to obtain
licenses to sell their excess
weed to dispensaries for re-
sale to recreational purchas-
ers.
The ballot initiative voters
passed last fall, Measure 91,
legalizes personal possession
of marijuana for people ages
21 and older starting in July
and calls for the Oregon Li-
quor Control Commission to
begin accepting applications
for retailers and other busi-
nesses by January 2016. Reg-
ulators and lawmakers antici-
pate that due to the workload
involved in setting up the
longterm rules for a new sys-
tem to track, license and tax
marijuana businesses, recre-
ational pot retailers might not
open until later that year.
That means there will be
no legal growers or retailers
when the law takes
effect.
Ferrioli said the
state needs an inter-
im solution for con-
sumers who want to
purchase legal pot
in July.
“Oregonians are
not expecting to
have to wait until
2016 to be able to
buy retail legal marijuana
in Oregon,” Ferrioli said.
“These growers are out there.
They’ve got products.”
Ferrioli is a co-vice chair
of the legislative commit-
tee working to implement
Measure 91. He is also the
Senate Republican leader.
Ferrioli said he has already
discussed the idea with dis-
pensary owners, as well as
other leaders on the legisla-
tive committee, “and every-
body thinks it’s a brilliant
idea.”
Sen. Ginny Burdick,
D-Portland, and a co-chair
of the Joint Committee On
Implementing Measure 91,
said committee members are
“very interested in that idea.”
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Pakistan judge orders former CIA station
chief be charged over 2009 drone strike
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani judge on Tuesday
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lawyer who oversaw its drone program and the one-time
chief agency operative in Islamabad over a 2009 strike that
killed two people.
Former acting general counsel John A. Rizzo and ex-
station chief Jonathan Bank must face charges including
murder, conspiracy, terrorism and waging war against
Pakistan, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the Islamabad
High Court ruled. A court clerk and a lawyer involved in
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judge’s ruling.
Rizzo and Bank could not be immediately reached for
comment. The CIA will have no comment, spokesman
Chris White told The Associated Press.
The legal action comes as the number of CIA drone
strikes in Pakistan has fallen precipitously from their 2010
high, amid signs that the U.S. and Pakistan have been
more closely cooperating on counterterrorism issues after
years of tensions. It is unclear how the criminal charges
will affect that cooperation, even though the defendants
will almost certainly never see the inside of a Pakistani
courtroom.
The only way the case could go forward is if U.S.
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inconceivable given that the drone strikes were carried out
under a program ordered by two successive U.S. presidents.
Iran nuclear deal guards against cheating
— but gives Tehran wiggle room
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Sen. Rand
Paul launched his 2016 presidential
campaign Tuesday with a combat-
ive challenge both to Washington and
his fellow Republicans, cataloguing a
lengthy list of what ails America and
pledging to “take our country back.”
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his home state of Kentucky before he
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was designed to broaden his appeal
outside of the typical GOP coalition
as well as motivate supporters of his
father’s two unsuccessful bids for the
Republican presidential nomination.
In a 26-minute speech that eviscerat-
ed “the Washington machine,” he spared
neither Republican nor Democrat as he
attempted to tap into Americans’ deep
frustrations with their government.
“I worry that the opportunity and
hope are slipping away for our sons
and daughters,” the tea party favorite
said. “As I watch our once-great econ-
omy collapse under mounting spend-
ing and debt, I think, ‘What kind of
America will our grandchildren see?”’
He added: “It seems to me that both
parties and the entire political system
are to blame.”
By criticizing fellow Republicans,
Paul showed he was ready to run a
tough-talking campaign equally at ease
criticizing both major parties.
“Big government and debt doubled
under a Republican administration,”
Paul said in a swipe at former President
George W. Bush, whose brother, Jeb, is
expected to be a Paul rival for the GOP
nomination.
He immediately followed up: “And
it’s now tripling under Barack Obama’s
watch.”
In what well might have been a jab
at Jeb Bush and other rivals considered
more mainstream, he added: “If we
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. waves as he arrives to announce the start of his
presidential campaign, Tuesday at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Ky.
Paul launched his 2016 presidential campaign Tuesday with a combative
message against both Washington and his fellow Republicans, declaring
that “we have come to take our country back.”
nominate a candidate who is simply
Democrat Lite, what’s the point?”
At a splashy kickoff rally, Paul
promised a government restrained by
the Constitution and beholden no more
to special interests.
“I have a message, a message that
is loud and clear and does not mince
words: We have come to take our coun-
try back,” he told cheering supporters.
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senator but often not in line with his
party’s leadership. A banner over the
stage in Louisville proclaimed: “De-
feat the Washington machine. Unleash
the American dream.”
Paul was clearly most passionate
about upending the way Washington
works.
“I propose we do something ex-
traordinary,” he said. “Let’s just spend
what comes in.”
Cheers erupted when he decried gov-
ernment searches of phones and com-
puter records as a threat to civil liberties.
Most Republicans defend the practice as
a necessary defense against terrorism.
“I say the phone records of
law-abiding citizens are none of their
damn business,” Paul said of govern-
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Tom Stewart, a 58-year-old resident
of London, Kentucky, joined Paul’s
rally and counted himself a backer.
“I like that he wants less govern-
ment,” Stewart said. “Less spending.
Less intrusion. Maybe less intrusion
into everybody’s rights around the
world.”
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VIENNA (AP) — In selling the Iran nuclear deal to
Congress and other skeptics, President Barack Obama said
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audience over the weekend: “If Iran cheats, the world will
know it.”
Only time will tell if Obama is right. While Iran could
try to push back or cover up, it certainly has little incentive
for deceit.
Its negotiators returned home to jubilant crowds hailing
the prospect of an end to the crippling economic sanctions
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Tuesday, even the chief of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary
Guard joined in praising their efforts.
Tehran thus is unlikely to risk the prospect of having
the sanctions re-imposed — the penalty for cheating. More
likely, Iran will push for every loophole any agreement
provides but honor it, and wait out the strict restrictions any
deal will impose.
Still, hoping that Iran will toe the line isn’t enough.
Distrust about its intentions will persist long after the
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by last week’s preliminary deal. It was designed to at
least temporarily cap such potential Iranian bomb-making
nuclear activities.
560 dead, 1,700 wounded in Yemen as
workers warn of humanitarian collapse
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — As tons of desperately
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Yemen, aid workers warned Tuesday of an unfolding
humanitarian crisis, saying at least 560 people, including
dozens of children, have been killed, mostly in a Saudi-led
air campaign and battles between Shiite rebels and forces
loyal to the embattled president.
More than 1,700 people have been wounded and
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Yemen since the start of the Saudi-imposed air blockade.
Sitara Jabeen, a Geneva-based spokeswoman for the
International Committee of the Red Cross, said a cargo
plane with 17 tons of medical supplies was in the
Jordanian capital, Amman, awaiting the go-ahead from
coalition forces to land in Sanaa, hopefully on Wednesday.
Another 35 tons of supplies were also ready for shipment,
she said.
“If these medical supplies do not reach Yemen, then
unfortunately we are afraid many more people will die,”
Jabeen said.
She said a surgical team was also awaiting clearance to
dock in the embattled Yemeni port of Aden, where heavy
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