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90°
110° (1939)
56°
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Caldwell
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North Bend
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PORTLAND — Federal
prisoners who identify as
humanist can now celebrate
Darwin Day and get accom-
modations typically afforded
to those inmates who believe
in a deity.
The
federal
Bureau
of Prisons agreed in the
settlement of a lawsuit to
add a section on humanism
to its manual on inmate
beliefs and practices. Of¿-
cials in the prison system
will also consider requests
from humanist inmates for
access to study materials,
observance of holy days, and
time and space for religious
activities.
Inmate Jason Michael
Holden and the American
Humanist Association ¿led
the lawsuit last year, saying
Holden and other humanist
prisoners were prohibited
from forming a study group
at a federal prison in Sher-
idan, Oregon.
Humanism is similar to
atheism. But rather than
simply reject belief in a god,
humanists advocate rational
thinking.
“There’s not much to
talk about in respect to just
atheism,” Holden’s attorney,
Monica Miller, said by phone
from Washington, D.C. “It’s
Irrigation-free oilseed crop
camelina sees success in trials
ONTARIO (AP) —
Oregon State University
researchers are seeing some
early success in trials of
camelina, an irrigation-free
oilseed crop that’s getting
more interest from farmers in
the eastern part of the state as
drought conditions persist.
Researchers have found
a small pro¿t margin for
farmers who plant camelina
on land that otherwise would
have remained fallow, the
Capital Press reported.
Oregon State University
Malheur County experiment
station director Clink Shock
says while not a money-
maker, camelina could help
growers pay land costs while
also preventing erosion that
can happen on fallow ¿elds.
One test ¿eld produced
1,500 pounds of seed per
acre that would have brought
a farmer $300.
While nowhere near the
$4,800 per-acre value of
onions, the camelina test
¿eld grew without irrigation.
About 4.17 inches of
precipitation fell on the
camelina ¿eld from planting
to harvest.
“We need to be thinking
about what we’re going to do
without water,” he said. “This
is not a big money maker but
it is a way of taking care of
your farm ground. Also,
consider that the return on
the land will be negative
without a crop.”
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really about what you do
believe, and what those worl-
dviews are and what those
philosophies are.”
The settlement comes
a little more than a year
after the U.S. Army added
humanist to its list of reli-
gious preferences.
It is unknown how many
inmates identify as humanist.
But giving them the ability
to choose that preference,
and to have it entered in
the federal prison database,
will allow the number to be
calculated.
Holden has been impris-
oned since an armed robbery
in Washington state more than
a decade ago. He explained
in a May 2014 interview with
Uptown Radio that not all
atheists — such as those who
are white supremacists — are
humanists.
“As humanists, we believe
in the ability of mankind to
transcend their differences
and ¿nd some common
ground, you know, make the
world a better place,” he said.
Sheridan prison of¿cials
allowed Holden to form the
study group after the lawsuit
was ¿led. Under the settle-
ment, Holden can maintain
the group as long as there
are at least two like-minded
prisoners, and the option
will be afforded to humanist
prisoners elsewhere.
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Oregon prepares to collect
millions in pot taxes — in cash
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
Pot ads can promote product, not buzz
The Oregon Department of Revenue
is preparing to accept large amounts of
cash from legal recreational pot busi-
nesses in 2016, when a state sales tax
on the drug takes effect.
Spokeswoman Joy P. Krawczyk
said the agency will collect the taxes on
a Tuarterly basis, and revenue of¿cials
plan to release details in the next couple
of weeks on how they will handle the
tax payments.
“It’s still really early in the process,
and our special programs folks are
working on putting together a solid
plan,” Krawczyk said.
Marijuana taxes are projected to
total 10. million in the ¿scal year
beginning July 2016.
Marijuana businesses typically
operate on a cash basis because banks
are unwilling to provide accounts
to the cannabis industry. The U.S.
Department of the Treasury issued
guidance to banks in 2014 that they
could do business with state-sanc-
tioned marijuana businesses, but
future presidential administrations
could reverse that policy and the
burden is still on ¿nancial institutions
to report suspicious activities such as
drug traf¿cking.
“The banks are worried about jeop-
ardizing their federal charter because
the feds still consider marijuana to
be illegal,” said Tom Towslee, a
spokesman for the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission, which will
implement Oregon’s new recreational
pot regulations.
Although Oregon’s 17 percent
sales tax on recreational marijuana
takes effect in January, consumers will
likely initially pay a higher rate. That is
because state-licensed recreational pot
SALEM — The recreational marijuana market that will materialize on Jan.
4 will likely bring with it another strange new sight for Oregonians: recreational
marijuana marketing.
But regulators say legal pot ads almost certainly won’t contain images of
users inhaling the product, or praising its “intoxicating” effect.
If that seems paradoxical, it shouldn’t. The same provisions govern the
promotional material for alcohol, which never shows consumers explicitly
imbibing.
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission will regulate legal pot businesses,
and their advertising.
The agency is engaged in a dif¿cult balancing act as it writes the rules that
will govern recreational cannabis.
Too much regulation could stiÀe the nascent industry and divert millions in
tax revenue from state coffers to the ever-present black market. Too little, and
the OLCC would fail the legislature’s mandate to keep consumption safe and
out of the hands of minors.
The Retail Establishments subcommittee, a subsection of the OLCC’s Recre-
ational Marijuana Rules Technical Committee, has unanimously recommended
duplicating the agency’s liquor ad regulations for the cannabis market.
retailers expect to open in late 2016,
and the Legislature passed a higher tax
rate — 25 percent — on medical mari-
juana dispensary sales to recreational
customers.
That tax also takes effect in January,
so consumers will have a short
window to buy limited amounts of
tax-free recreational pot from medical
marijuana dispensaries starting Oct. 1.
Although all adults in Oregon age 21
and older can now possess marijuana,
there is currently no legal outlet where
people can buy the drug.
During a hearing in May, Depart-
ment of Revenue legislative coordi-
nator Deanna Mack told lawmakers it
would be challenging for the agency
to handle the cash payments. Mack
said Oregon could follow the example
of Washington, where recreational
cannabis businesses can pay their
taxes in cash at the state capital.
“We ¿gure we’d do something like
what Washington is doing, requiring
them to bring the cash to Olympia,”
Mack said. “My understanding is
even to secure the premises will take a
couple months with contractors.”
Mack said the state could also install
drop boxes around the state for pot busi-
nesses to deposit cash tax payments, if
business owners or employees cannot
travel to Salem.
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