Pubdate: Sat, 04 Oct 2014
Source: Statesman Journal (Salem, OR)
Copyright: 2014 Statesman Journal
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/427
Author: Ryan Basile

LEGALIZING MARIJUANA WILL GIVE ECONOMY A BOOST

Prohibition of marijuana in Oregon is having unintended consequences.

Measure 91 ensures that Oregon's State Agricultural Department will 
issue industrial hemp production licenses and hemp seed production 
permits in accordance with the existing law passed in 2009 by Oregon 
legislators.

Senate Bill 676 allows industrial hemp to be grown in Oregon. 
However, Oregon farmers cannot grow hemp because the federal 
government has not removed hemp from the nation's list of prohibited narcotics.

When Oregon voters pass Measure 91, we can research what strains of 
hemp will grow best in our climate and we can get to work driving the 
Oregon economy, instead of feeding foreign economies.

Canadians have a 20-year lead on us in hemp research. They make half 
a billion dollars a year, and most of the product from Canada (about 
90 percent) is exported to the United States.

Measure 91 will establish rules specifically for Oregon to legalize 
the industrial production of hemp in Oregon until the federal 
government lifts prohibition on hemp nationally.

Hemp is not a drug. Hemp is a useful plant that can be turned into 
food, oil, wax, rope, cloth, paper and pulp.

Vote yes on Measure 91.

Ryan Basile

Silverton
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