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[Robrites]

Marijuana edibles legal in Oregon starting Thursday

Marijuana edibles legal in Oregon starting Thursday

Caution urged to keep them from children

SALEM, Ore. -

Starting Tuesday, edible marijuana products containing up to 15 milligrams of THC will be available for retail sale in registered medical marijuana dispensaries across the state to adults 21 or over.

Although smoking marijuana has the added risk of harmful smoke exposure, eating or drinking marijuana still exposes you to THC, the chemical that makes you high, the Oregon Health authority noted
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"While you quickly feel the effects of smoked or vaped marijuana, edibles can take up to four hours to take full effect," Tuesday's announcement said, adding that "marijuana can make children very sick. "

-- You can help keep the children in your life safe and healthy by storing all marijuana products in a locked area that children cannot see or reach.
-- If your child eats or drinks marijuana products, call the Poison Center Hotline as soon as possible at 1-800-222-1222.
-- If symptoms seem bad, call 911 or go to the emergency room right away. Symptoms can include your child having trouble walking or sitting up, starting to be sleepy or having a hard time breathing.

THC can affect people differently. Members of the public are advised to ingest less than the 15 mg per unit limit and wait at least 90 minutes and up to four hours before eating or drinking more.

Temporary Oregon Administrative Rules go into effect June 2. The rules, under OAR 333-008-1500, are available online at http://www.oregon.gov/oha/mmj/Docum...Marijuana-Early-Start-Temporary-Rule-Text.pdf.

They allow a registered medical marijuana dispensary to sell to members of the public age 21 or older one unit of a single-serving, low-dose cannabinoid edible per day.

A unit of low-dose cannabinoid edible can contain more than one edible as long as the total tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the unit does not exceed 15 mg.

http://www.ktvz.com/news/Marijuana-edibles-legal-in-Oregon-starting-Thursday/39819546

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

i just found out that public comments for the "permanent" rec edibles & contectrates rules closes in 2 days

http://www.oregon.gov/oha/mmj/Pages/rules.aspx#proposed
this is a PDF of the proposed rules :http://www.oregon.gov/oha/mmj/Documents/Rulemaking/333-007-0210-PROPOSED-table-1.pdf

PROPOSED Permanent Administrative Rules

Proposed Rule Text

OAR 333-007 and 333-064: Proposed Rules for Cannabis Testing and Accreditation of Laboratories (pdf)
Proposed Exhibit A, Tables 3 and 4: Standards for Testing Pesticides and Solvents (pdf)
ORELAP Cannabis Sampling Protocols
OAR 333-007: Proposed Rules for Marijuana Labeling and Concentration Limits (pdf)
Proposed Table 1: Retail Marijuana Item Concentration and Serving Size Limits (pdf)
Proposed Table 2: Medical Marijuana Item Concentration and Serving Size Limits (pdf)
OAR 333-008: Proposed Rules for Medical Marijuana Implementing House Bill 4014 and Senate Bills 1511 and 1598, Housekeeping Changes (pdf)
Rulemaking Documents

Statement of Need and Fiscal Impact (pdf)
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Hearing (pdf)
Public Comment

You are invited to review the proposed rules and to comment on them. If you wish to present oral testimony, public hearings will be held in Portland, Medford, Eugene and Bend at the following times:

May 19, 2016 at 11:00 AM
Portland State Office Building, Room 1B
800 NE Oregon Street
Portland, OR

May 23, 2016 at 1:30 PM
Medford Public Library, Large Conference Room
205 S Central Avenue
Medford, OR

May 25, 2016 at 1:00 PM
Atrium Building, Sloat Room
99 W 10th Avenue
Eugene, OR

June 3, 2016 at 1:00 PM
Deschutes County Health Services Building, Stan Owen Room
2577 NE Courtney Drive
Bend, OR

You may submit written comments through June 3, 2016 at 5:00 PM.

Email: [email protected]

OHA, Public Health Division
Administrative Rules Coordinator
800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 930
Portland, Oregon 97232

Final rules will be filed after consideration of all comments.

 

[Aota1]

Today's the day. I believe it will be busier than October 1 was at most dispensaries. We've been getting 15mg edibles in the last 2 weeks plus shatter and cartridges. We'll see how it goes! I do hope they up the dosages at some point for the recreational customers benefit. No rosin, kief, or bubble is ridiculous though. What happens when a liquor board makes rules about ganja.

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

Today's the day. I believe it will be busier than October 1 was at most dispensaries. We've been getting 15mg edibles in the last 2 weeks plus shatter and cartridges. We'll see how it goes! I do hope they up the dosages at some point for the recreational customers benefit. No rosin, kief, or bubble is ridiculous though. What happens when a liquor board makes rules about ganja.

look at the PDF in the post above to see what the proposed permanent rules are and then please email them a comment.

 

[Robrites]

Recreational Marijuana Licenses Approved by OLCC
Commission Gives Staff Authority to Grant Licenses Moving Forward

June 2, 2016

Portland, Oregon – The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has approved 10 Recreational Marijuana producer licenses and also has delegated authority to the OLCC’s Executive Director to issue recreational marijuana licenses.

The producer licensees include:

TKO Holdings Inc.; Bruce Edward Beckett, Charlie Joseph Cassidy (TKO Reserve) - Outdoor, Tier 2, Jackson County
Mountain View Growers, LLC; Don Kruger, Don Morse (Mountain View Growers) – Outdoor, Tier 2, Multnomah County
Green Choice Farms, LLC; Erick Polk, Laura Polk (Green Choice Farms) – Mixed, Tier 2, Clackamas County
Arm J LLC; Mariah Hagstrom (The Cannabis Farm) – Outdoor, Tier 2, Jackson County
Creedence Creek Farms; Diane Westcott (Creedence Creek Farms) – Mixed, Tier 1, Washington County
45th Parallel Farms LLC; Molo Whitebear (45th Parallel Farms LLC) – Outdoor, Tier 2, Polk County
Sun Breeze Inc.; Brie Malarkey (Sunna Ra Acres) – Outdoor, Tier 1, Jackson County
Royal Ambrosia, LLC; Lila Gastelum, Dale Merritt (Royal Ambrosia) – Mixed, Tier 2, Washington County
Happy Buddha Farm, LLC; Sherri D. Martinelli ( Happy Buddha Farm) – Outdoor, Tier 2, Yamhill County
Seed Soil Sun, LLC; Kevin Blum (Seed Soil Sun) – Outdoor, Tier 1, Jackson County

The licensees approved today include Tier 1 and Tier 2 outdoor and mixed cultivation growers. Tier 1 outdoor growers are allowed to have a plant canopy up to 20,000 square feet, and Tier 2 outdoor growers are allowed to have a plant canopy between 20,001 to 40,000 square feet. Mixed cultivation growers are allowed to have a combined indoor and outdoor canopy using a ratio so the total canopy does not exceed the tier designation.

The annual fee for Tier 1 growers is $3,750, and the annual fee for Tier 2 growers is $5,750. The annual license fee wholesalers, labs, processors, and retailers is $4,750.

With the delegation of authority from the Commission, the OLCC Executive Director can now approve recreational marijuana licenses and recreational marijuana worker’s permits instead of the Commission voting on individual licensees.

To date the OLCC has received 1003 applications for Recreational Marijuana Licenses and the Commission has approved 44 licenses.

 

[Aota1]

look at the PDF in the post above to see what the proposed permanent rules are and then please email them a comment.

Got it. Thank you

 

[Sluicebox]

Is it legal to send product UPS in Oregon to another Oregon residence? Not Post Office but UPS or Fed Ex.

 

[Robrites]

Is it legal to send product UPS in Oregon to another Oregon residence? Not Post Office but UPS or Fed Ex.

NOPE.

 

[Robrites]

Are you kidding me, Oregon, with these edible marijuana rules? (Letters to the Editor

Are you kidding me, Oregon, with these edible marijuana rules? (Letters to the Editor

Edible marijuana rules: "People 21 and older can buy one low-dose marijuana-infused edible per day"? One edible a day? Are you kidding me? I am not looking to treat a headache. I am looking to get a buzz going.

A 15-milligram edible policy is like limiting alcohol drinkers to one 8-ounce can of 3.2-percent-alcohol beer per day. (Don't get any ideas now, repressionists!)

I resent the government's presumption that the people who pay their wages are incapable of making an intelligent decision, especially when they seem to be incapable of making one of their own.

Reporter Noelle Crombie also writes that people "can buy one pre-filled cartridge or container of marijuana extract per day." Cartridges! Whose special interests did that serve? Nothing about the "cartridges-only" policy makes any sense. I guess everyone will have to once again drive over to Washington and spend their money there.

Our state leaders boasted about how Oregon's legislative model on cannabis legalization would be the template for the rest of the nation. Once again our leaders have mismanaged millions of taxpayer dollars fumbling the ball and making our state the punchline of an international joke. If our leaders appear as hillbillies, it makes the Oregon taxpayer appear to be even more dense.

Legislators: Do your job as our paid representatives and restore this plant to its rightful place as a beneficial living creature within our ecosystem, instead of acting like a bunch of greedy fools who are gonna milk this for all its worth. You act as though no crime was committed by trying to exterminate this creature, when the only crime committed was making it illegal in the first place. Own your ignorance and shame, because if you don't, you will never learn the error of your ways.

Rick Mock

Northeast Portland
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/06/are_you_kidding_me_with_these.html#incart_river_home

 

[Sluicebox]

Munch bars are back! Found them at Walmart. They have been gone for years. If you've never had one you're missing out. It's like buttery peanut brittle. Would love to see them made as a medible. Hint Hint, I'd buy the s out of them.

Now if we could get CW Post cereal back.... yum.

 

[Robrites]

Portland police encourage buying pot from 'legit businesses'

Portland police encourage buying pot from 'legit businesses'

If you're going to buy pot, Portland police want you to buy it the legal way – from a "legit" retailer.

They said as much in a tweet Friday evening.

If you are looking to buy marijuana, go to a legit businesses and avoid street dealers who might rob you. #ItsLegal pic.twitter.com/kLmHNAXjS2
— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) June 11, 2016

And, judging by a quick review of recent Twitter activity, that tweet proved a lot more popular than most of the agency's messages.

By Saturday morning, the tweet had amassed more than 1,000 "likes" and nearly as many retweets.

Twitter users showed some strong approval in their replies to the tweet:

@PortlandPolice not enough like buttons
— Ben Vilimek (@benv138) June 11, 2016



@PortlandPolice pic.twitter.com/2jeSRxTe3z
— Joe (@024601) June 11, 2016



@PortlandPolice Oh Portland, I hope you never change.
— John Murphy, Villain (@jargonmaster) June 11, 2016

-- Emily E. Smith

 

[HorseMouth]

Ok boys & girls,

We have a hard frost expected tonight (early morning on the 19th). Please make plans today to cover everything you've got tonight.

This is for east of the cascades. Whatever it takes should be the motto for tonight. Don't worry about bent tops, just make sure to keep the frost off those plants!

Peace and Good Luck

 

[Biosynthesis]

2016 outdoor kc 33 garden

2016 outdoor kc 33 garden

 

[Aota1]

I'm now the store manager at my workplace/dispensary in Eugene and I'm definitely interested in high quality flower, extracts, and edibles. Message me if interested. Thanks

 

[Robrites]

Slap on the Safety Glasses

Slap on the Safety Glasses

And take a few steps back. Shit gonna be exploding round here....

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

And take a few steps back. Shit gonna be exploding round here....

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Just in time too, the solstice in in a couple days so theres only a few more weeks before outdoor plants start flowering. I spent some of the morning transferring small pot plants to larger pots to take advantage of the bounty of free light in the coming days. I also spent some time counting my unhatched chickens in the form of getting way stoned and daydreaming about how I'm going to process my harvest. Very productive day.

 

[HorseMouth]

I was adding boxes to my bee hives (cause we're about to hit prime honey production) and I got stung once in each ankle. Happy Fathers Day!

Thank God for some Sun.

Peace

 

[Biosynthesis]

There are processor/distributers starting to show up. Makes it nice because they will trim your pot for a fee as well as help distribute it. Paying taxes on the crop is a good feeling actually. Now it feels very liberating to know we are actually within the law. Hope it makes our state a great place to visit. Taxation of marijuana..........what a novel idea. Feel like I can finally post pictures of the marijuana garden as well as the vegetables.

Are we the third state to start taxation in the nation?

 

[Robrites]

Marijuana growers, processors face numerous and complex rules

Marijuana growers, processors face numerous and complex rules

As recreational marijuana cultivation emerges from decades in the shadows in Oregon, residents face a vexing challenge: Where will new licensed farms, processing plants and retailers be allowed to locate?

Banned outright in big chunks of the state, recreational marijuana facilities face a complicated patchwork of quickly drafted local land-use laws in areas, such as Lane County, that are allowing them.

Those local rules are, at times, viewed as too permissive by longtime residents suddenly confronted with the reality of a new marijuana farm or processing facility nearby. Commercial-scale marijuana producers, meanwhile, want to be able to proceed with their new business ventures without unreasonable hassles from neighbors or bureaucratic barriers from local officials.

Last December, Cassie Heckenkamp and Jeff Smith spent $920,000 to buy 19 acres of bucolic land off the McKenzie River east of Walterville.

Backed by several local and out-of-state investors, the couple’s plan was to start a 5,000-square-foot indoor commercial recreational marijuana grow in an old agricultural storage building and a 40,000-square-foot outdoor grow in an adjacent 16-acre field they have an option to buy. They would live on the isolated property, which is surrounded by mostly open fields and farms.

But less than two weeks later, the Lane County Board of Commissioners banned any commercial recreational marijuana cultivation on all land outside city growth boundaries that is zoned as rural residential. The board cited concerns about the crop’s odor and the crime the all-cash businesses might bring to rural areas. Heckenkamp and Smith’s new property — like about 68,000 acres across Lane County — is zoned rural residential. The board’s decision caught them by surprise and left their business plan in tatters. “I assumed that (the county) would be like Eugene,” says Heckenkamp, a 43-year-old who has operated big recreational marijuana grows in Colorado, where pot is legal, and medical marijuana ones in Arizona in recent years.

“Eugene has been very helpful in getting this industry off the ground. It just didn’t occur to me that the county would approach this this way.”

In Cottage Grove, meanwhile, a successful application for city approval of a small marijuana processing plant across the street from a popular downtown park has irked some city residents.

Using liquid carbon dioxide, Paul Hampshire and Ruby McConnell of Eugene plan to extract “essential oils” from cannabis on what has long been a vacant lot opposite Bohemia Park. They say they won’t sell any products on site and will screen the property from the street with a wooden fence and new trees and bushes.

Community backlash

Still, some nearby homeowners and backers of non-profit Bohemia Park — a former railway storage yard that now has a playground, picnic areas, paths and an amphitheater — are outraged about their new neighbor.

“It took us 25 years to convert three brownfields into a park for children and families in the heart of Cottage Grove. We did not do it to facilitate the manufacture, sale, distribution or use of drugs,” said Thomas Hoyt, a Bohemia Foundation board member. “The thought of a marijuana factory being across the street from Bohemia Park is repulsive.”

Responding to the community backlash, the Cottage Grove City Council is considering creating new buffer zones around schools and parks where no recreational marijuana businesses could locate — although the rule would not be applied retroactively.

It’s been 19 months since Oregon voters comfortably approved Measure 91, legalizing recreational marijuana. The new industry is now coming into focus. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission last month approved the first commercial-scale recreational-pot farms and processors, and hundreds more recreational-only retailers, or dispensaries, are set to open in the fall.

The state has approved many new regulations for the embryonic industry. But, in a key concession to Oregon’s cities and counties, the Legislature gave local governments significant power to decide where and how recreational marijuana businesses can operate.

Many conservative counties and cities simply banned all commercial recreational marijuana — farms, processors, and retailers — outright. In some other parts of the state — including Lane County — local governments have created a still-evolving patchwork of land use restrictions. In Lane County, more than 60 percent of people voted in favor of pot legalization.

That lack of uniformity is confusing and unfair, marijuana advocates say, and will hamper the new industry’s development.

But in some cases, residents directly affected by new recreational pot businesses feel that local laws are too permissive. They’ve begun to lobby for new restrictions.

“The local policy is all over the map,” said Michael Gelardi, a lawyer with the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine who focuses on land use issues. “From a regulatory standpoint, a lot of decision-making (by local governments) happened relatively fast. And then you have a public reaction to that. I think we’re going to see a lot of evolution (in the rules) over time.”

Gelardi compared the emerging recreational marijuana industry to wineries, which, as the industry burgeoned, lobbied for more uniformity in local regulations.

“We went through years of trying to set common rules statewide, so people would know what they could and couldn’t do,” he said.

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[Obsidian]

I was adding boxes to my bee hives (cause we're about to hit prime honey production) and I got stung once in each ankle. Happy Fathers Day!

Thank God for some Sun.

Peace

I practice apitherapy down here in GP, I sting myself on purpose all the time, 2 on top of each hand yesterday. does it hurt? not really, itches a bit. I send bees out all over the USA
through my apitherapy website. Hive products do us well.
I have my grow in my apiary. pics in my album, and documented in the thread I'm slowly updating. My plants are only knee high about a month behind my schedukle, oh well ftw!