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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: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday July 02 2015, @07:31PM
you don't buy into any opinion but your own
I am very suspicious of anyone who would buy opinions, and even more suspicious of anyone who is only interesting in investing in opinions rather than owning them free and clear. Borrowed or stolen opinions are, in fact, not opinions at all, but lies, facades, pretenses, or propaganda. So what would you have a poor Soylentil do, fro? Not have opinions? Or purchase them second hand?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday July 02 2015, @07:54PM
I suggest most are given (foisted?) free (as in beer) to any who will listen, and the price to be paid comes later, mostly by at least tacitly allowing that some part of your prior operating assumptions may have flaws, and the learning curve imposed to incorporate new ideas into the old.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday July 03 2015, @12:18AM
and the learning curve imposed to incorporate new ideas into the old.
Ah! We agree! I have always maintained there is no such thing as intellectual property, because ideas cannot be transferred, as anyone who has tried teaching knows. It is the intellectual labor that makes the idea your own, so I think we can say that opinions are based on a labor theory of value (hey, Marx was right!), rather than a market or exchange value. So, what was the original point?