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Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday July 02 2015, @01:20PM   
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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• Re:corporations will lag behind Re:corporations will lag behind (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2015, @07:24PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2015, @07:24PM (#204366)

  if it maters, its a japanese (named) company but located in the bay area. huge company; maybe its the home office, in japan, that is stuck in the past and refuses to modernize how it treats its workforce.

  Japan (and many other Asian nations) have strict anti-drug policies. On a personal note, I don't see the problem here. You don't want to work for an employer that does drug screenings, and no one is forcing you to do so. If an employer states that they won't hire anyone who wears orange socks, and you feel strongly about the freedom to wear orange socks, you can go work for someone who doesn't care what color socks you wear to work.

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• Re:corporations will lag behind (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @08:25AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @08:25AM (#204619)

  That's assuming you are in position to make such choices..

  But if you ARE, please stay the fuck from corporations that implement cargo-cult policies like this. It's an indicator that there's other stuff wrong as well. Perhaps they are interested in your bathroom break lengths too? Maybe you end up spending half of your time banging your head against broken oracle web app instead of being productive. Dysfunctional companies also like to push plenty nonscientific nonsense as something important in order to seem like they were functional. Get ready for that also.

  Way too many people just swallow that shit when they did't actually have to. If you haven't smoked for a while and can pass the test easily, is that enough of an excuse to take a job like that? Don't let them get away with it when you _know_ it's bullshit. Take the other company that can't afford braindamage.

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