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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: 2) by tathra on Friday July 03 2015, @06:45AM

    by tathra (3367) on Friday July 03 2015, @06:45AM (#204585)

    except they don't indicate intoxication, they indicate whether you've used the drug recently, not whether you are currently on them. if they tested for intoxication only, there would only be a detection period of a couple hours, not days. it is not possible to determine with a standard drug test if the person is on drugs at the time of the test or if they did it days ago. if drug tests were solely to detect current intoxication then they wouldn't be the rights and privacy violation that they are.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday July 04 2015, @12:37AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 04 2015, @12:37AM (#204891) Journal
    Some tests do measure concentration, not merely presence. For example, my employer uses a two tier system: the first test, used onsite, measures presence of the drug and the second, which is done by an independent lab, measures actual concentration of the suspected drugs at the time the test sample was acquired.