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Trudeau: Canada to legalize marijuana on Oct. 17
TORONTO (AP) —
Marijuana will be legal
nationwide in Canada start-
ing Oct. 17 in a move that
should take market share
away from organized crime
and protect the country’s
youth, Prime Minister Jus-
tin Trudeau said Wednesday.
The Senate gave final
passage to the bill to legalize
cannabis on Tuesday, legis-
lation that will make Canada
only the second country in
the world to make pot legal
across the country.
Trudeau said provincial
and territorial governments
need the time to prepare for
retail sales.
“It is our hope as of Octo-
ber 17 there will be a smooth
operation of retail cannabis
outlets operated by the prov-
inces with an online mail
delivery system operated
by the provinces that will
ensure that this happens in
an orderly fashion,” Trudeau
said.
The prime minister said
at a news conference that
the goal is to take a signifi-
cant part of the market share
away from organized crime.
“Over the following
months and indeed years we
will completely replace or
almost completely replace
the organized crime market
on that,” he said.
Canada is following the
lead of Uruguay in allow-
ing a nationwide, legal mari-
juana market, although each
Canadian province is work-
ing up its own rules for pot
sales. The federal govern-
ment and the provinces also
still need to publish regu-
lations that will govern the
cannabis trade.
“The legislation is trans-
formative,” said Justice
Minister Jody Wilson-Ray-
bould, adding it “marks a
wholesale shift in how our
country approaches canna-
bis, leaving behind a failed
model of prohibition.”
She urged Canadians to
follow the existing law until
the Cannabis Act comes into
force.
“The law still remains the
law,” Wilson-Raybould said.
Many questions remain
unanswered, including how
police will test motorists
suspected of driving under
the influence, what to do
about those with prior mar-
ijuana convictions and just
how the rules governing
home cultivation will work.
The Canadian prov-
inces of Quebec and Mani-
toba have already decided to
ban home-grown pot, even
though the federal bill spec-
ifies that individuals can
grow up to four plants per
dwelling.
“Provinces can set their
own laws. If individuals
are challenging that law,
they can challenge it,” Wil-
son-Raybould said.
Trudeau said the govern-
ment won’t discuss pardons
of past convictions until
legalization is in effect.
“There’s no point looking
at pardons while the old law
is in the books,” Trudeau
said.
Trudeau said they are
going to treat it like wine
and tobacco, noting that few
people will cultivate it at
home, but it’s necessary to
fight organized crime.
Trudeau promised to
legalize it during the 2015
election and had set a goal of
July 1 for it. The provinces
pleaded for more time.
Canadian
marijuana
stocks have rallied in antic-
ipation of legalization and
jumped again on Wednesday.
In the neighboring U.S.,
nine states and the District
of Columbia have legalized
marijuana. California, home
to one in eight Americans,
launched the United States’
biggest legal marijuana mar-
ketplace on Jan. 1.
The news was greeted
with enthusiasm by mari-
juana advocates in the U.S.
Morgan Fox, a spokes-
man for the National Canna-
bis Industry Alliance in the
U.S., said Canada’s legal-
ization should also serve as
a wake-up call south of the
border.
“The most important
takeaway is that it’s time for
advocates in the industry to
double down, so as to not be
surpassed by the Canadian
cannabis industry,” he said.
Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Jody Wilson-Raybould speaks
during a press conference as Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas Taylor, right, and
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
and to the Minister of Health Bill Blair, left, look on during a press conference on
Bill C-45, the Cannabis Act, in the Foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament
Hill in Ottawa, Ontario on Wednesday. The Canadian government said it will soon
announce the date of when cannabis will become legal — but warns it will remain
illegal until then.
Don Hartleben, who
manages Dank of Amer-
ica, a retail cannabis store
just south of the border in
Blaine, Washington, said
Canada’s legalization was
not only politically excit-
ing, but a potential business
boon for him.
CLINIC: Additional services planned in new location
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the new location, Keith said.
He said there will be special-
ists who can consult patients
on everything from allergies
to hormones.
“It’s going to be a destina-
tion for wellness, not just sick
care,” he said.
Armstrong worked from
2000 to 2006 at Gifford Medi-
cal Clinic in Hermiston before
coming to Umatilla, where
she has provided free sports
physicals to teens in the com-
munity and walk-in services
for patients who have been
told they can’t get seen for
days or weeks at other clinics.
“In April we had 62 (urgent
care) walk-ins that got in in
under an hour,” Keith said.
He and Armstrong said
patients come from all over,
not just Umatilla — she even
uses telemedicine to see
patients as far away as Salem.
While Keith said Armstrong
has built a loyal following
during her time in Umatilla,
Armstrong said she wasn’t
told by the Umatilla Hospital
District why they had decided
to not continue to pay her to
provide services in the district
when her contract is up at the
end of October.
She said the upside of the
decision is it has provided
the opportunity to create an
“amazing project” for the
community.
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FARMERS: Impressed by U.S. infrastructure system
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control your farms.”
“You can rule your farm
with your cell phone,” he
said. “It’s quite different
here.”
He said he was also inter-
ested to see how integrated
farms and suppliers are in
the United States.
Marcos Pooter, who
grows soybeans, corn,
wheat and sorghum, said
he admired the “amazing”
infrastructure in the country.
“Here,
everything
works,” he said. “In Brazil,
you have to work a lot to do
a little.”
He said he was interested
in seeing how the pump sta-
tions used here are differ-
ent than in Brazil, and he
wanted to study the system
further to see if it could be
adapted well in the region
where he grows crops.
Before the group set out
for a second day of tours on
Wednesday, Ziari hosted an
informal question-and-an-
Photo contributed by Fred Ziari
Herb Stahl from the Stanfield Hutterian Brethren farm
shows the FieldNet Wireless pivot control to a group of
farmers visiting from Brazil.
swer session with one of the
bilingual group members
translating.
One grower asked how
much of the world was using
the advanced precision irri-
gation technology that they
had seen at Herb Stahl’s
farm during their tour. Ziari
said worldwide, irrigation
is at about 30 percent effi-
ciency, but Stahl’s farm
achieves about 90 percent
efficiency.
“I think that it is a global
model for efficiency, but we
have large areas, many hect-
ares in the United States that
are not that efficient, that
need to be brought up. But
we are progressing fast,” he
said.
Other questions were
about the growth of agricul-
ture in the United States, and
whether the Eastern Oregon
region could support more
crops. Ziari said growth is
limited in the United States
not so much by land avail-
ability but by political
issues. In 1900, 50 percent
of Americans were involved
in farming, he said, and
now it’s less than three per-
cent due to the technologi-
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“Because we are now 2
percent of the population,
politicians are ignoring the
needs of agriculture,” he
said.
He told the group that
investment in new projects
was needed for Brazil’s agri-
cultural economy to grow,
and the investment commu-
nity was interested.
Many of his customers
are Canadian tourists who
are terrified of trying to
bring pot across the border,
he said. If more use mari-
juana when they’re in Can-
ada, more will use when
they’re on vacation in the
states.
“People ask me all the
time, ‘Isn’t legalization in
Canada going to hurt your
business?’” he said. “I tell
them, ‘No! The more it’s
legal, the more people are
going to feel safe to buy my
product.’”
CORBETT: Raise
reflects city’s satisfaction
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action before the end of
a fiscal year, his contract
automatically renews for
the following year.
In an interview follow-
ing the meeting, Turner
said the raise was reflec-
tive of the council’s sat-
isfaction with Corbett.
Turner said it also made
the city manager salary
more competitive with cit-
ies of similar size. Turner
added that Corbett’s salary
was still smaller than that
of Hermiston’s city man-
ager, despite not having
the help of an assistant city
manager.
Corbett was not the only
city employee to leave the
council meeting with a sig-
nificant raise.
The
council
also
approved a new contract
with the Pendleton chapter
of the Service Employees
International Union, which
represents all non-pub-
lic safety employees that
aren’t managers, tem-
porary or work less than
half-time.
Under the three-year
agreement, SEIU sala-
ries will rise by 5 percent
in 2018, 4 percent in 2019
and 4 percent in 2020.
Other changes include
a $750 cash bonus if
an employee receives a
second certification or
advanced
certification,
an education incentive
that pays for half the cost
of college tuition with
advance approval from the
city manager, and getting
one-hour pay for every 12
hours an SEIU employee is
on-call.
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