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Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday July 02 2015, @01:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-say-"OR" dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Oregon ended marijuana prohibition at midnight Wednesday, joining Colorado, Washington state, Alaska and the District of Columbia in legalizing recreational use of the drug.

The new law means Oregon likely will reap benefits that appear to have followed legalization elsewhere: Reduced crime, from a legal industry supplanting a black market; higher tax revenue, once weed is legal to sell; and police forces and courts unburdened by droves of misdemeanor pot offenders.

Oregon voters in November approved Measure 91 with 56 percent of the vote. As of now, adults 21 and older can legally possess up to eight ounces of marijuana inside their home and up to one ounce outside. Adults can grow up to four plants per household, out of public view.

Sign of the times.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday July 02 2015, @06:36PM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday July 02 2015, @06:36PM (#204349) Journal

    But there is a lot of wiggle room in their statistics that they don't want you to look at too closely.

    Nowhere does it say that these absences are drug related, (correlation / causation), or the result of arrests for mere possession which will not happen now that it is legal. (In fact the 8 day absence sounds more like an alcoholic's relapse than anything else.)

    Further they lump all drugs together, and gloss over the fact that Alcohol is thrown in there too. Toss those out and everything looks different. Current testing methods can't aren't capable of distinguishing a marijuana yesterday from a joint smoked during today's coffee break.
     

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  • (Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Thursday July 02 2015, @10:54PM

    by M. Baranczak (1673) on Thursday July 02 2015, @10:54PM (#204456)

    Current testing methods can't aren't capable of distinguishing a marijuana yesterday from a joint smoked during today's coffee break.

    You're right. Better smoke a marijuana on coffee break every day just to be sure you're getting high.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 02 2015, @11:13PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday July 02 2015, @11:13PM (#204459) Journal

    Employees using alcohol is perhaps neither a good idea. But I guess you say that drug (as in cannabis etc) users are less prone to upset the workplace?
    Another risk down the road is peer pressure to smoke weed just like drinking alcohol is today.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @06:50AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @06:50AM (#204590)

      Another risk down the road is peer pressure to smoke weed just like drinking alcohol is today.

      What do you mean "down the road"? There's a lot more peer pressure to smoke weed than drink, because its illegal.