Oregon could allow legal recreational marijuana sales as soon as three months from now, but medical marijuana dispensaries know next to nothing about how those regulations will work. That classification has contributed to difficulties state-legal marijuana businesses have encountered in getting access to banking and financial services, which forces many to operate on a cash-only basis. At midnight (therefore July 1), all 21+ adults with ID will be given free marijuana and cannabis seeds, courtesy of medical marijuana providers and activists.
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The changes the legalization will bring will not really be much actually. The state isn’t accepting applications from growers and retailers until 2016, meaning unless you’re a medical marijuana patient, there’s still no place to buy legal pot. There are states where votes are possible in 2016. They can also grow up to four cannabis plants per residence and can share or give away marijuana to other adults – but not sell it. The Oregonian reports that the Portland chapter of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) will celebrate the momentous event by gathering on the west side of the Burnside Bridge at 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 30. States like Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri and Michigan.
Medical marijuana followed in 1998.
In 2010, a closely watched ballot initiative to legalize recreational pot use failed, but a recent poll by the Public Policy Institute of California showed that 55 percent of likely voters support legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Usually the term ‘sales tax’ is avoided at all costs in Oregon because it’s politically undesirable, but apparently not when it comes to marijuana, at least according to Oregon politicians.
Oregon voters approved Measure 91, which allows legal consumption of pot, in November 2014 by a 56 per cent majority.
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission is writing rules for growing and selling legal pot.
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Legislators said they didn’t want to advance the January 4 start of taxation contained in Measure 91 and also said it would take time for the Department of Revenue to develop a system for collecting sales taxes.
