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Monday, July 7th, the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act (OCTA) was announced to the press. All our local TV affiliates covered the story on air and online (KATU, KOIN, KGW, KPTV, video at our YouTube channel) plus news radio KEX, Portland's Progressive Talk KPOJ, and local weekly paper Willamette Week.

The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act (OCTA) is going to tax and regulate the sales of small amounts of cannabis to adults in Oregon's liquor stores.

OCTA will raise money for the general fund in Oregon, while protecting kids by taking cannabis out of the black market, where nobody asks for ID and other drugs are for sale.

OCTA will also allow our farmers to grow a very profitable hemp crop and fund the promotion of Oregon hemp products. Our struggling timber communities would find new jobs in mills making hemp pressboard and other hemp building materials.

OCTA maintains criminal penalties for driving under the influence and makes selling to minors a Class B Felony.

OCTA allows citizens to grow and consume their own personal cannabis plants with no fees or taxes. However, to sell cannabis, one must apply for an OLCCC license and one may only sell to the state liquor stores.

OCTA creates severe penalties for removing cannabis from the state. OCTA allows the OLCCC to control pricing and sales limits to undermine the black market.

OCTA helps Oregon medical marijuana patients by providing an accessible source of medicine. OCTA eliminates the risk of growsite break-ins and medicine theft motivated by black market cannabis.

OCTA provides for scientific study of the medical and industrial uses of cannabis, for drug treatment programs, and for comprehensive abstinence-focused drug education for Oregon students.

OCTA needs 83,000 valid registered voters' signatures by July 2, 2010. Volunteer to help pass OCTA today! We need people from all over the state. Together we can finally end adult cannabis prohibition in Oregon!

Croatia last year almost legalized cannabis and prostitution and saying that taxing that would make Croatia richer country and that it would be a lot more tourists because of it (like in Amsterdam; People are going there only because of cannabis and whorehouses).

I'll probably be dead by the time this happens in Malta, religion has kept as so backward that divorce isn't even recognized here, for fuck's sake.

I generally despise all drug use but this plan seems to be rather respectable.

Good luck with that.

I'm an avid pot user and I think it should be legal.

It's decriminalized in my state, fortunately. I would love to see it legalized in this entire country but I doubt that will happen any time soon if at all since it's drilled into everyone's head that it's the devil's product.

I've no problem with those who don't like it, but I should still have the right to make my own personal choice to use it as I please. I don't do any harm to anyone.

Amen.