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jalan48
(13,798 posts)Legalization will mean fewer alcohol related deaths and fewer people in the prison system. Legalization is long overdue.
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)So if folks in a certain part of the state don't want dispensaries, they don't get them. Why wouldn't this work in most places? There might be a ban on dispensaries in Republican congressional districts, for example.
jalan48
(13,798 posts)TonyPDX
(962 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 26, 2016, 02:20 PM - Edit history (1)
It's legal to possess and use in every town, but they can choose to opt out of licensing dispensaries (similar to "dry counties" elsewhere). Here's the catch: if a town doesn't allow sales, they don't receive a share of the tax revenue. Works for me.
charliea
(258 posts)I'm glad that we finally did it but I've got a conundrum. Our new legalization allows home owners to grow up to 4 plants (out of public view), however it also limits the amount you may have in your home to 8 oz. Given that the Willamette valley is an ideal growing environment and weed is, well, a weed I wonder if a bumper crop becomes illegal when you cut the plants up to dry?
That being said the tax revenue received so far by the state from product sales is running 10x the estimates prior to January this year, and society hasn't collapsed!
TonyPDX
(962 posts)I'm optimistic, though, that more reasonable revisions to the original legislation are inevitable once we have a year or two behind us. I still encounter folks who express surprise that after a year the sky hasn't fallen.