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Thursday, July 20, 2017
New state laws designed to protect
against federal crackdown on marijuana
BRIEFLY
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND — A new state marijuana
law designed to protect customers from
federal prosecution is already changing
the nature of sales at dispensaries.
Effective as soon as it was signed
by Gov. Kate Brown April 19, Senate
Bill 863 prohibits dispensaries from
recording, retaining or transferring the
names or other identifying information of
customers who purchase marijuana.
The regulation is one of several new
state laws designed to shield the cannabis
industry from a potential federal crack-
down on the state’s legal market and to
refine overall rules governing the industry.
“Changes seem to be occurring on a
daily if not an hourly basis on the federal
side, and I personally am very concerned
that we give as much protection to Oregon
citizens to ensure their personal identi-
fication information isn’t compromised
through some kind of federal subpoena or
some other act that a business is not going
to have the fortitude or maybe the legal
basis that the state would have to fight
those type of requests,” said Sen. Floyd
Prozanski, D-Eugene, a chief sponsor of
Senate Bill 863.
The absence of customer records
would hinder authorities from prose-
cuting customers for federal marijuana
crimes.
However, from a customer service
perspective, the change brought some
disadvantages to retailers.
“It was nice to be able to bring up
their sales history. We used to keep track
of what products customers bought so if
they forgot what they bought last time we
could pull up a record of it,” said Alex
Richter, manager of Foster Buds’ location
on Northeast Glisan Street in Portland.
“Now, we’re like a bar or a convenience
store. We just look at your I.D. to make
sure you’re over 21.”
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions
has publicly disagreed with the Obama
administration’s acceptance of state mari-
juana programs, which violate federal
law. In May, Sessions wrote to Congress
asking it to scrap a budget amendment in
effect since 2014 that effectively shields
state medical marijuana programs from
federal prosecution.
Sessions’ comments on marijuana
prompted Prozanski to add an emergency
clause to Senate Bill 863, making it effec-
tive upon passage.
Rep. Ann Lininger, D-Lake Oswego,
a lawyer who co-chairs the Legislature’s
Joint Committee on Marijuana Regu-
lation, said other new laws also aim at
fortifying the industry against federal
backlash.
Senate Bill 1057 allows recreational
marijuana retailers to quickly switch
their adult-use recreational licenses
BEAVERTON (AP) —
An Oregon man accused
of abusing his mother’s
corpse is now charged with
her murder.
Court records show
24-year-old Matthew
Gutierrez of Beaverton was
arraigned on the charge
Wednesday afternoon. He’s
due back in court next week.
Beaverton police arrested
Gutierrez this week after
being asked to do a welfare
check on his mother —
57-year-old Katherine
McDowell. Officer Bryan
Dalton said Gutierrez told
police he had burned his
mother’s body in the back
yard fire pit.
Investigators found
human remains in the fire
pit that are believed to be
McDowell.
Gutierrez is being held in
the Washington County Jail.
A court-appointed lawyer
assigned to represent him
did not immediately return a
message seeking comment.
Paris Achen/Capital Bureau
Kodey Kern, assistant manager at Foster Buds, weighs some “Alpha Blue”
marijuana buds at the company’s location at Northeast Glisan Street in
Portland Tuesday. The Legislature this session passed measures to help
guard customers from federal prosecution if the Justice Department
cracks down on recreational marijuana outlets.
“Changes seem to be occurring on a daily if not
an hourly basis on the federal side.”
— Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, a chief sponsor of Senate Bill 863
to a medical-only license in case of
“federal obstacles,” Lininger wrote in a
memo on new cannabis laws. The law
assumed that Congress would continue
the budget amendment, known as
the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, to
prohibit the federal government from
spending money to interfere with medical
marijuana programs.
The bill mandates that medical
cannabis producers, processors, whole-
salers and medical dispensaries undergo
the same stringent seed-to-sale tracking
of products that the recreational industry
has been subject to since recreational
sales were legalized.
The bill also directs state regulators to
create a database of anonymized medical
marijuana transactions to help detect and
prevent diversion of product into the
illicit market.
An analysis by Oregon State Police
earlier this year showed product is leaking
into the illegal market.
“Anything we can do to cut off leakage
… would put us in a stronger position”
with the federal government, Sen. Ginny
Burdick, D-Portland, co-chairwoman of
the marijuana regulation committee, said
in May.
House Bill 2198 gives the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission additional
authority to respond to applicant or
licensee misconduct. Another new law,
Senate Bill 56, allows the liquor control
commission to immediately suspend any
licensee who has transferred product into
the illegal market. The bill also orders
the creation of a state hotline where local
authorities can verify whether a grow site
is registered or licensed.
Oregon is one of eight states, plus the
District of Columbia, that has legalized
recreational adult use of cannabis.
Twenty-one others states have legalized
medical marijuana.
Despite local efforts to protect the
industry, the federal government may not
need states’ cooperation to enforce the
federal ban.
The U.S. Department of Justice could
shut down the marijuana industry through
the federal courts, according to Mark
Kleiman, a professor of public policy at
NYU Marron Institute of Urban Manage-
ment, when he was quoted in Business
Insider in February.
The federal government would only
need to obtain copies of marijuana license
applicants and seek an injunction against
the applicants from selling cannabis,
Kleiman has said.
Such a shutdown would likely revive
Oregon’s illegal market, wipe out 12,500
jobs and drain state coffers of a projected
$105 million in annual recreational mari-
juana tax revenue, used to support public
education and services, Lininger said.
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Shark sightings
near Seaside
prompt advisory
CANNON BEACH
(AP) — Authorities are
warning beachgoers after
several people reported
shark sightings near
Cannon Beach and Seaside.
KGW reports that
lifeguards received reports
of dorsal fin sightings on
Saturday. A paddle-boarder
reported seeing the shark’s
mouth and feeling it bump
her board.
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SATURDAY
FRIDAY
Mostly sunny and
breezy
Plenty of sunshine
84° 55°
88° 58°
SUNDAY
Plenty of sun
Mostly sunny
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
93° 63°
99° 65°
94° 61°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
91° 61°
87° 57°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
90°
90°
107° (1931)
61°
59°
43° (1932)
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Normal month to date
Year to date
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HERMISTON
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TEMPERATURE
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PRECIPITATION
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SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
July 23
July 30
102° 69°
98° 66°
Seattle
72/56
ALMANAC
Yesterday
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Records
97° 67°
Full
5:25 a.m.
8:37 p.m.
2:46 a.m.
6:00 p.m.
Last
Aug 7
Aug 14
Spokane
Wenatchee
81/54
81/58
Tacoma
Moses
73/51
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 85/53
79/50
67/54
73/52
85/54
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
73/54
87/60 Lewiston
88/55
Astoria
88/58
67/53
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
76/58
Pendleton 81/47
The Dalles 87/57
84/55
80/59
La Grande
Salem
83/50
79/55
Albany
Corvallis 78/53
78/51
John Day
85/52
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
95/62
78/49
82/48
Caldwell
Burns
93/58
85/44
REGIONAL CITIES
Today
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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Klamath Falls
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Clouds limiting sun today;
a shower in spots across the north.
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of sun-
shine today. Tonight: a starry night. Plenty of
sunshine tomorrow.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today.
A passing shower; only in the morning
across the south.
Cascades: Partly sunny today; a morning
shower in spots across the north. Clear
tonight.
Northern California: Partly sunny at the
coast today; sunny elsewhere.
Today
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SALEM (AP) — An
Oregon man who is
accused of violating a
restraining order 216 times
has been arrested.
The Statesman Journal
reports 48-year-old Odilon
Jimenez-Ramos was taken
to Marion County Jail on
Monday.
Court records show a
Marion County woman
filed a restraining order
against Jimenez-Ramos
in May. She said he
threatened to take her son
to Mexico and shoot her
family. She also detailed
months of verbal and
physical abuse.
Jimenez-Ramos was
barred from contacting the
woman in person, calling
her or texting her. But he is
accused of sending 211 text
messages and calling the
woman at least five times
from July 6 to July 16.
The woman contacted
authorities, leading to
Jimenez-Ramos’ arrest.
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
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Medford
90/57
Man accused of
violating restraining
order 216 times
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MONDAY
Sunny and hot
PORTLAND (AP)
— The Oregon Bureau
of Labor and Industries
has proposed a $1 million
award to a second woman
who worked at a Beaverton
strip club while underage.
The agency began an
investigation in 2015,
alleging civil rights
violations against two
minors who worked at
Stars Cabaret.
The club recently
agreed to pay $1.25 million
to a dancer it employed in
2012 when she was 13.
The proposed order
filed Wednesday says Stars
Cabaret and a manager are
jointly liable for sexual
harassment of the second
victim, who was 15 when
she worked there.
Corrections
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Forecast
State awards $1M
to underage strip
club dancer
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than a dozen shark species
live off the Oregon coast.
Man charged
with murder in
mother’s death
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The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
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National Summary: Part of the Central states will continue to broil today. Locally drenching
storms will dot the Deep South and interior West. Heavy showers and thunderstorms will
focus around the Great Lakes.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 112° in Valentine, Neb.
Low 29° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
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Indianapolis
Jacksonville
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