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East Oregonian
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Friday, June 3, 2016
Early heat wave
Oregon allows sale of pot
hits
the
West
edibles, oils to general public
LAS VEGAS (AP) —
Parts of the Western U.S.
are getting an early taste
of scorching summer heat,
forcing oficials in Cali-
fornia, Oregon and desert
Southwest states to heed
the warnings of dangerous,
triple-digit temperatures in
this irst week of June.
Organizers rescheduled
California’s state track and
ield championship events
to start in the evening hours
Friday and Saturday. The
competition is being held
in Clovis in the San Joaquin
Valley, where daily highs are
expected to top 100 degrees
through
the
weekend,
according to the National
Weather Service.
Precautions are also in
place ahead of Portland’s
Rose Festival on Saturday in
Oregon, when the mercury is
expected to rise to 99 degrees
in the city and 103 degrees
downstate in Medford.
Marching bands have
asked event oficials if they
can ditch some of the pomp
and circumstance by taking
off their hats and changing
their uniforms during judged
performances to cope with
the stiling heat, according
to spokesman Rich Jarvis.
The popular festival is
also renting mist machines
and handing out sunscreen
around a carnival area on the
Willamette River waterfront.
“We’re telling people,
‘Beware,”’ Jarvis said. “It’s
going to be tough.”
The severity of the heat
wave in the forecast is also
putting Southwest desert
areas under an excessive heat
warning. The life-threat-
ening heat is expected Friday
morning through Sunday
night, from southern Nevada
including Las Vegas, up
to Death Valley and desert
sections of San Bernardino
County along the California
border and over to Arizo-
na’s Lake Havasu and the
Phoenix area, according to
the weather service.
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Ray Berrian has
been smoking marijuana for years. But
on Thursday he walked into a store on
a busy street in the Portland suburbs
and legally bought an “edible” — three
small squares of rich chocolate infused
with cannabis oil — for the irst time.
Berrian, a 66-year-old retired
elementary school teacher, was one
of hundreds of recreational users who
lined up at retail stores around Oregon
to buy such pot-infused sweets as the
state made their sale legal to the general
public for the irst time.
“It’s new for me, it’s new for a lot
of my friends that there can be such
a thing. I’m not really familiar with
edibles so this will be actually new
for me,” he said. “I’m kind of excited
about getting home and trying these
with some coffee.”
Recreational
marijuana
sales
became legal in Oregon last fall.
Now, medical marijuana dispen-
saries participating in an early sales
program may add edibles and extracts
to the things they can legally sell to
recreational users.
Under the current early sales
program, one dose of cannabis-infused
edible can have no more than 15 milli-
grams of THC; consumers can buy up
to 1 gram of oil, or cannabis extract,
with no more than 1,000 milligrams of
THC per cartridge.
Customers are limited to one
purchase per day.
The Oregon Liquor Control
Commission is in the process of
licensing producers and expects to
authorize recreational shops later this
year. Oregon also wants to cap the
dose for individual edible products at
5 milligrams each — half of what’s
allowed in Colorado and Washington
state.
AP Photos/Gillian Flaccus
In this Thursday photo, an employee displays a limeade-lavored
cannabis-infused gummy candy at the Chalice Farms industrial
kitchen in Portland. Thursday was the irst day recreational marijuana
users could legally purchase marijuana edibles and oils in Oregon.
Dispensaries participating in the
early recreational sales program can
do so until Dec. 31, by which point
Oregon authorities hope to have a
licensing program in place for stand-
alone recreational marijuana stores.
Marijuana entrepreneurs have been
gearing up for Thursday’s business
for weeks, anticipating a rush by the
general public on the newly available
products. Edibles had already been
available for legal sale to medical
marijuana card holders.
At Chalice Farms, every employee
was recruited to wrap and box up
hundreds of pot-infused goodies before
their four Portland-area stores opened
their doors at 9 a.m. The kitchen at the
company’s headquarters can produce
500 packages of candies a day.
Customers poured into the compa-
ny’s retail location in Tigard, southwest
of Portland as soon as its doors opened.
By 11 a.m., the lime-lavored,
cannabis-infused gummies were sold
out. Business was brisk at the glass
case displaying brightly colored boxes
of trufles in salted caramel, coconut,
lemon meringue and peanut butter
lavors.
Other offerings included gummies
in a variety of fruit lavors and choc-
olate toffees, white chocolate chai
squares and milk chocolate infused
with hazelnut alongside the marijuana.
The edibles sold for $12 to $16 per
package.
“Right now, the whole team, it’s all
hands on deck, and they’re working
hard to get it done,” said William
Simpson, the company’s president.
“This is a huge day for Oregon.”
Elevated radon levels at some Portland schools
PORTLAND (AP) —
Portland Public Schools
says it has received results
showing elevated levels of
radon in rooms throughout
the district.
The announcement late
Wednesday comes at a time
when the district is facing
criticism for its response to
tests showing high levels of
lead in the drinking water at
some schools.
David Hobbs, senior
director of facilities and
asset management, outlined
the radon indings in a
memo to the school board
and Superintendent Carole
Smith.
Hobbs said roughly 800
rooms in 26 buildings were
tested, and nine rooms in
six schools exceeded an
Environmental Protection
Agency threshold that
requires immediate follow
up testing. EPA guidelines
suggest the follow ups be
done, if possible, during
the coldest months of the
season.
More than 100 other
rooms exceeded an EPA
standard that requires further
long-term testing. Those
tests will occur in the fall.
Most of the affected
rooms are classrooms, but
elevated levels of radon
were also detected in boiler
rooms, cafeterias, gymna-
siums and the principal’s
ofice at a southeast Portland
elementary school.
Radon is an odorless and
invisible gas that naturally
exists in the ground and can
cause lung cancer.
It enters a building
through openings in the
foundation.
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny and
warmer
Mostly sunny
85° 55°
94° 58°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Very hot
Very hot
Mostly sunny and
hot
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
97° 67°
99° 65°
94° 59°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
89° 56°
98° 61°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
74°
74°
96° (1970)
59°
50°
35° (1917)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.01"
0.01"
0.13"
5.60"
4.99"
6.68"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
78°
76°
102° (1937)
62°
51°
38° (1987)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.02"
0.02"
0.06"
4.25"
3.14"
5.20"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
June 4
Full
103° 65°
98° 60°
Seattle
78/59
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
103° 65°
5:08 a.m.
8:39 p.m.
4:26 a.m.
7:01 p.m.
Last
June 12 June 20 June 27
Today
TUESDAY
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Wenatchee
77/54
86/61
Tacoma
Moses
79/54
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 85/57
75/51
75/56
80/53
87/57
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
83/56
84/58 Lewiston
90/56
Astoria
83/57
74/55
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
86/63
Pendleton 77/52
The Dalles 89/56
85/55
91/59
La Grande
Salem
81/52
86/61
Albany
Corvallis 87/59
88/58
John Day
87/60
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
89/59
85/56
84/54
Caldwell
Burns
86/58
84/47
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny today.
Warmer across the north; pleasant in central
parts.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny and
warmer today. A star-studded sky tonight.
Mostly sunny and hot tomorrow.
Western Washington: Partial sunshine
today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine
tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Mainly clear tonight. Abundant sunshine
tomorrow.
Cascades: Warmer today with sunshine and
patchy clouds. Mild tonight with a starlit sky.
Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the
coast today; hot in central parts. Sunshine
elsewhere.
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The dangerously hot
temperatures will peak
Saturday, with highs between
105 and 110 in Sin City, 111
to 118 in Phoenix and 115 to
121 in Death Valley.
Phoenix’s parks and
recreation department is
preparing for the heat by
having rangers out during
peak times at popular loca-
tions, like the Echo Canyon
Recreation Area and South
Mountain Park. The city
oversees nearly 200 miles of
trails.
“That way a ranger
can maybe spot a person
that needs water or help
them make the decision on
whether it’s safe to hike or
not,” said Gregg Bach, a
department spokesman.
National
Weather
Service Meteorologist Clay
Morgan said the heat impact
level, which considers the
temperature and duration
of such soaring degrees,
prompted the warning.
Gradual temperatures help
the body get acclimated,
so a sudden upswing and a
steep climb in a short period
can exacerbate health risks
and the potential for heat
exhaustion, stroke and even
death.
It’s a particular concern
in Las Vegas, which faced its
irst triple-digit day this year
on Wednesday, a week later
than average, and had highs
in mid-May swinging from
99 to 75 in a matter of days.
This also comes on the
heels of a toasty 2015. June
2015 in Las Vegas was
recorded as the hottest ever
for the month. The valley’s
overall average tempera-
ture for the year was 71.8
degrees, just shy of topping
the record set at 72 degrees
in 2014.
Though the Old Farm-
er’s Almanac has already
predicted
above-normal
temperatures for most of
the country this summer,
Morgan said it’s too early to
call any trends yet.
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0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016
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National Summary: Showers and thunderstorms will stretch from Maine to Texas today.
Storms will dot Florida, while severe weather can visit part of the North Central states.
Much of the West will be dry, sunny and hot.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 112° in Needles, Calif.
Low 25° in Gould, Colo.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Memphis
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Miami
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Milwaukee
74
Minneapolis
76
Nashville
85
New Orleans
85
New York City
72
Oklahoma City
79
Omaha
86
Philadelphia
77
Phoenix
113
Portland, ME
62
Providence
71
Raleigh
90
Rapid City
76
Reno
95
Sacramento
103
St. Louis
83
Salt Lake City
87
San Diego
78
San Francisco
79
Seattle
78
Tucson
107
Washington, DC 82
Wichita
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