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Oregon officials struggle to ID which pot sites are legal
SALEM — An Oregon sheriff
and district attorney on Tuesday
blasted efforts to regulate legalized
marijuana, saying the state is
allowing black market operations to
proliferate.
The issue is especially sensitive
because U.S. Attorney General Jeff
Sessions recently allowed federal
prosecutors more leeway to pursue
federal anti-marijuana laws in states
like Oregon that have legalized pot.
The top federal attorney in Oregon,
Billy Williams, earlier this month
warned of a crackdown, saying
Oregon produces more marijuana
than it consumes, with the overpro-
duction feeding the black market.
Marijuana grow sites have
flourished in many parts of the state,
including in Deschutes County,
Oregon’s fastest-growing county
which sprawls over high desert and
the snowy peaks of the Cascade
Range.
Deschutes County District
Attorney John Hummel and Sheriff
Shane Nelson announced charges
stemming from an illegal grow
site that deputies discovered acci-
dentally — and sharply criticized
state regulatory efforts as basically
nonexistent.
“Our state has no regulation for
the marijuana industry,” Nelson said
at a news conference in the district
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File
In this 2016 file photo, Deschutes County District Attorney John
Hummel stands in front of the county courthouse in Bend. Hum-
mel has announced criminal charges arising from an illegal mari-
juana growing operation, which sheriff’s deputies stumbled across
in Deschutes County while searching for something else.
attorney’s offices in Bend. “In
order to have regulation an agency
has to have enough resources to
be effective at enforcement of the
regulations. Oregon does not have
this.”
The Oregon Health Authority,
which regulates medical marijuana,
and the Oregon Liquor Control
Commission, which regulates
recreational marijuana, did not
immediately respond to requests for
comment on Tuesday’s assertions.
Hummel and Nelson complained
in a Feb. 7 letter to the health
authority that local law enforcement
officers often can’t tell whether
medical marijuana grow sites are
legal or illegal because the agency
hasn’t provided a list of authorized
sites.
“Unfortunately, our hands
are often tied when it comes to
enforcing manufacturing and culti-
vation laws,” they wrote to Carole
Yann, the agency’s manager of the
BRIEFLY
Oregon child molester
sentenced to 12 years
immigrant community, which numbers
about 8,000 in Portland.
PORTLAND (AP) — A judge sentenced
a convicted child molester to 12 ½ years in
prison despite a 17-year-old Portland girl
recanting her story of sexual abuse.
Multnomah County Circuit Judge
Leslie Roberts on Friday sentenced
Hassan Mohamedhaji Noor to prison after
discovering two months ago that the girl
was under pressure from family and others
in her Somali American community not
to speak out, The Oregonian/OregonLive
reported .
The 17-year-old girl called 911 last year
to report the sexual abuse.
“There is no point in arguing that it
didn’t happen,” said Roberts, directing her
comments to the girl and an audience of
more than 30 Noor supporters. Some cried
as Noor was sentenced.
Noor’s attorney, Christopher
McCormack, asked for 6 ¼ years. He said
Noor, who maintains his innocence, has
done a lot of good as a hard-working father
of six.
After a four-day trial in December,
the judge found Noor guilty of sexually
abusing three girls in his tight-knit
Student asks lawmakers to
help pay for Salem shelter
In-state tuition for noncitizens steps closer
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Pushing
back on federal policies on
immigration, the Oregon
Senate on Monday passed a
bill that would give in-state
college tuition to noncitizens
who have graduated from an
Oregon high school.
The bill was designed to
address the Trump Admin-
istration’s plan to eliminate
the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
program.
However, the bill also
offers in-state tuition to
noncitizens who never
received DACA.
“These children are
our children,” said Senate
President Peter Courtney,
D-Salem, in a speech on the
Senate floor Monday. He said
children who were brought
to the United States by their
parents had no choice in the
SALEM (AP) — A Salem high school
student has asked Oregon lawmakers to
help him open a shelter for homeless youth.
The Statesman Journal reports that
McKay High senior Raul Marquez said in
a letter that he has raised about $125,000
for a shelter in the capital city, and needs
another $275,000.
Marquez noted the death of a homeless
girl named Taylor, who he says died on the
streets of Salem because she didn’t have a
warm place to sleep.
Jon Reeves, executive director of the
Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action
Agency, confirmed that a girl died, but
declined to say what caused her death.
Marquez addressed his letter to Senate
President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, and
Rep. Nancy Nathanson, D-Eugene. They
co-chair the Joint Committee on Ways and
Means.
The shelter’s proposed site is a former
center for at-risk Latino youth that’s now
up for sale.
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Spotty showers in
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69° (1982)
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Yesterday
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50°
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17°
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stray shower across the north. Partly sunny
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clouds and sun today; a snow shower.
Eastern Washington: Considerable cloudi-
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couple of snow showers in the south.
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to receive in-state tuition.
Instead, students only have
to show that they graduated
from an Oregon high school.
That mirrors eligibility
requirements for U.S. citi-
zens in Oregon.
The bill also makes
noncitizens eligible for
scholarships, grants and other
financial aid from public
universities,
community
colleges and more..
Sen.
Fred
Girod,
R-Stayton, said he opposed
the legislation because it
reneged on a bipartisan agree-
ment when the 2013 law was
passed to make noncitizens
eligible to receive in-state
tuition but not state financial
aid.
matter and should not be
penalized for their lives.
The Senate passed the
bill 17-to-10, with support
from 16 Democrats and
one Republican, Sen. Alan
DeBoer of Ashland. Ten
other Senate Republicans
voted against the bill.
Under existing law passed
in 2013, undocumented
students have to apply for an
official federal identification
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oversupply that is more than likely
going into the black market.”
Nelson also said county officials
are also concerned that the state
will impose land use regulations for
marijuana on the county, adding:
“The state has no business in deter-
mining that.”
Hummel said he is going to
“work within the system” but that if
the health authority doesn’t provide
a list of licensed growers he may
speak with Gov. Kate Brown or
lawmakers about further action.
Taking a back seat in the news
conference was the announcement
of criminal charges against Blake
Pyfer, 27, of La Pine.
Hummel said deputies were
searching with a warrant for a
stolen snowboard in Pyfer’s home
when they found 98 mature mari-
juana plants growing in a room and
63 immature marijuana plants in a
separate space. He is charged with
unlawful manufacture of marijuana
and unlawful possession of mari-
juana.
Hummel said Pyfer is a medical
marijuana patient and was an autho-
rized grower for one other patient,
meaning he could legally possess
12 mature plants and 24 immature
plants.
It was unclear if Pyfer had an
attorney. He had no listed telephone
number, and did not immediately
respond to a reporter’s message to a
person with that name on Facebook.
medical marijuana program. They
asked for a list of all registered
medical marijuana grow sites in
Deschutes County, but said they
have not received a response.
Hummel told reporters the
health authority conducted no
inspections in Deschutes County
in 2017, and said it is “ridiculous”
that the agency provides a 10-day
written notification of an inspection
to growers.
Jonathan Modie, a spokesman
for the health authority, said it is
reviewing the letter and plans to
respond soon. He confirmed that a
10-day notice is given for routine
inspections but that for “complaint
inspections,” staffers may make an
unannounced visit.
In the news conference, Nelson
complained that the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission has only 23
inspectors for more than 1,200
marijuana grows and retail outlets.
“Citizens must demand that the
governor’s office increase and fund
more inspectors,” he said.
The sheriff said he respects
voters’ wishes to legalize marijuana
in Oregon but threatened to try
to halt the establishment of more
recreational marijuana businesses
in the county.
“I have taken a stance. No more
recreational commercial marijuana
grows in Deschutes County,”
Nelson said. “The state needs
to take a time out and assess the
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
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snow showers will dot California and Oregon.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 90° in Sarasota, Fla.
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